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Has the fender jazz bass gone out of style?
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Date: October 28th, 2025 10:41 PM Author: mountain cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49383725) |
Date: October 28th, 2025 10:48 PM Author: Mr. Shalom I think so. It doesn't sound very good and most actual jazz bassists play basses with active pickups. The J bass hasn't had a moment in a long time. Tame Impala uses one but syke their most famous bass riff was played on guitar and transposed an octave down. He also uses a short scale bass so unclear what impact the J bass has. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49383740) |
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Date: October 28th, 2025 10:59 PM Author: mountain cat I have to say I did not love my J bass and havent missed it for a minute since i sold it. I think the “versatility” is exaggerated or maybe just surpassed with active basses with multi band EQs. Also used to be the benefit was the thin, fast neck. But basically every bass has a thin neck now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49383762) |
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Date: October 28th, 2025 11:05 PM Author: Mr. Shalom In a word, yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49383772) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 11:08 AM Author: mountain cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384526) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 11:13 AM Author: Mr. Shalom It took me two weeks but I finally finished setting up my p bass soup to nuts. It plays like a dream now. There was so much wrong with it from the Ensenada factory. They did a real rush job. I had to do everything. File the nut, truss rod adjustment, intonation, saddles. Even the pickups I had to cut some of the foam from the bottom because they were jacked up way too high. I did everything myself and now the action is super low and butter smooth with no buzzing. Have to play with an ultra light touch no digging into the strings. Honestly plays like butter now. I was skeptical of the SD quarter pound pickups but they sound pretty good. I had em before on a different bass and thought they sounded horrible but these sound fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384551) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 12:27 PM Author: mountain cat nice! have you done guitar tech maintenance stuff before?
I'm looking to swap out the pickups from my recently acquired 1989 peavey dynabass unity series. Maybe the preamp too. Going back and forth between the SD quarter pounds and EMG GZRs. There are some youtube videos but it's always hard to tell if the differences in sound are attributable to the pickups or other factors. |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 12:33 PM Author: Mr. Shalom Yeah I got really into it back in the day. I am not fast like a professional luthier. I take a long time. But I know how to do it. I've done probably 10-15 guitars in my life soup to nuts. I've built several partscasters. I actually funny enough I built a Tele out of parts and I listed it on Reverb and someone offered $800 for it. The total cost of the parts was around $400. I was kinda shocked but I ended up not selling it. I was just surprised someone wanted that piece of junk. But to be fair it's one of my best studio guitars it's sort of unimpeachable.
Yeah you can never tell how pickups sound until you install them. It's just an expensive crapshoot. The installation is pretty easy though. You can probably pay Guitar Center 50 bucks to do it if you can't figure it out. I've always been good with a soldering iron. I built a pedal from a kit once though that was a bitch. And not one of these fake ones like the Notaklön this one was a real fuckin soldering job lol. I decided thereafter not to go into pedal building as a career. It was not for me. |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 12:40 PM Author: self-satisfied and socially compliant Who gives a fuck about style with this shit. Nobody who was ever great gave a fuck about it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49384858) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 2:44 PM Author: mountain cat It doesn’t seem like the young crop of famous bassists gravitate toward the jazz bass and there’s been a resurgence of appreciation for the P bass.
More popular now is the pj configuration which seems like a best of both worlds or dual humbler with active electronics.
Has the jazz bass fallen off as the weapon of choice for virtuoso bassists? |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Mr. Shalom Aside from Flea Jaco and Tim Commerford and John Paul Jones who has really even ever rocked the J? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385199) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 2:56 PM Author: mountain cat Geddy Lee Marcus Miller Larry Graham
That's like saying "aside from 70% of the most famous bass players of all time, who played a jazz bass?"
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Date: October 29th, 2025 3:00 PM Author: Mr. Shalom There's 10x more who played a P (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385213) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 3:05 PM Author: mountain cat This is a good topic. Let's get a list of the most famous p-bass players:
James Jamerson Carol Kaye Steve Harris Roger Waters Michael League Geezer Butler Pino Palladino
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Date: October 29th, 2025 3:07 PM Author: michael doodikoff Steve Harris is the GOAT P Bass player IMO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385235) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 3:17 PM Author: mountain cat https://vocaroo.com/1jOOubcrtEog (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385281) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 3:24 PM Author: michael doodikoff not bad man!! I can't play that on bass
can play the main riff on guitar |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 3:30 PM Author: mountain cat Maybe we should collaborate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385350) |
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Date: October 29th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: Mr. Shalom Doodikoff will NEVER poast a recording of himself sucking wind on guitar lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49385386) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 8:12 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK It was all Lemmy cared about. He used Rickenbackers because he liked the way they looked. You can say he was a shitty bass player, but he was a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and a major geek who knew how tear apart and re-assemble guitars. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389153) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 7:08 PM Author: mountain cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389003) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 8:00 PM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv expansive mid-range and greater note separation distinguish the J bass over the P bass, hth. if u want virtuosity at the trebles over thundering bass-- J bass has it all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389136) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 8:53 PM Author: mountain cat But if you really want mid and upper range articulation, you’d be better off with dual humbuckers and an active EQ. Hard to replicate the warmth of a classic p bass with rounds.
Which contemporary virtuosos are playing a J?
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:11 PM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv Jaco Pastorius, Marcus Miller, Chris Chaney (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389260) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:19 PM Author: mountain cat By contemporary i meant modern or current. Jaco has been dead for like 40 years and Marcus Miller (who is my fav bassist of all time) is 100 years old. Chris Chaney isn't strictly a j guy.
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:20 PM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv u sound like an idiot---those players are more contemporary today to musicians than anybody living or dead-- and the J bass is their signature voicing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389278) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:26 PM Author: mountain cat I'm saying of that generation, really all my fav virtuoso bassists played a J: jaco, marcus, geddy, larry graham.
The younger generation of bassists largely do not play fender jazz basses with notable exceptions like Tal Wilkenfeld and Esperanza Spalding. Some examples Victor Wooten (albeit its a fodera with active j style pickups), Richard Bona, Michael Pipoquinha, Mohini Dey, Michael League, Mike Gordon. |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:28 PM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv the op query is answered: no, the J bass never goes out of style (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389289) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:33 PM Author: mountain cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389295) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 9:34 PM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv peace out, keep the beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTIdPyQigF8&list=RDhTIdPyQigF8&start_radio=1 |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 10:03 PM Author: mountain cat love you dog. trying to wrap up learning Sir Duke tonight. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389334) |
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Date: October 30th, 2025 8:03 PM Author: Miss Anthropy no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5791082&forum_id=2/en-en/#49389144) |