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Ummm hello...give up looking for gritty Jazz pickup and...

Discussion in 'Pickups & Electronics [BG]' started by RaginRog, Jul 7, 2013.

  1. Jul 7, 2013 #1
    RaginRog

    RaginRog Last guy you want to see is Employee Relations guy

    Nov 29, 2009
    Formerly Staten Island
    ....just get a nice overdrive pedal to add a bit of the grind/grit.

    I've never been much of a pedal user, and have always chased certain tones by either changing pickups or string types. I also bought and sold a lot (70+) of basses until about a year and a half ago when I kind of settled on Fender Jazz basses. I have SD Antiquity II in 2 of them, and Dimarzio Ultra Jazz in the 1. Lately I've been chasing a hint of overdrive for my classic rock band, and a little more for my Alice in Chains cover band. I have finally discovered overdrive pedals, and am really digging my Catalinbread SFT and my Sansamp bddi, while preferring the SFT due to the bddi having a little more hiss/hum when pushing the drive/gain.

    ...my light bulb moment- thought I'd share.
     
  2. Jul 8, 2013 #2
    walterw

    walterw Supportive Fender Commercial User

    Feb 20, 2009
    alpha-music.com
    heck yeah!

    i figured out a little while ago with bass and guitar that i just wanted the pickup to sound like a good classic example of what it was supposed to sound like (P-bass, tele, les paul, whatever) and everything else i could do with how i played it and what i plugged it into.
     
  3. Jul 8, 2013 #3
    RaginRog

    RaginRog Last guy you want to see is Employee Relations guy

    Nov 29, 2009
    Formerly Staten Island
    Nice Walt...I'm sure there are light bulb moment-threads...perhaps that is my second LBM
     
  4. Jul 8, 2013 #4
    Tunaman

    Tunaman

    Dec 26, 2004
    Boston
    lot cheaper than swapping out basses & electronics. Great call

    I dont need that grit but if I did I could overdrive my Streamliner or I have a Microbass I could play around with
     
  5. Jul 9, 2013 #5
    JimmyM

    JimmyM Supporting Member

    Apr 11, 2005
    Apopka, FL
    Endorsing: Yamaha, Ampeg, Line 6, EMG
    Pedals rule.
     
  6. Jul 10, 2013 #6
    RaginRog

    RaginRog Last guy you want to see is Employee Relations guy

    Nov 29, 2009
    Formerly Staten Island
    It most certainly is cheaper. What's up Tunaman...did you trade in your Hernandez jersey yet? That goofball. :rollno:

    one at time...I don't mind.
    :)
     
  7. Jul 10, 2013 #7
    iiipopes

    iiipopes Supporting Member

    May 4, 2009
    Pedals on basses do rule - ever since Macca recorded "Think For Yourself" on the Rubber Soul album in 1965.