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Posted by Jay --Previous Message--
on 3/22/2006, 2:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Jaco"
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While I am no Jaco expert, what I have read about him said he used roundwound strings which was one of the reasons for coating the neck with epoxy to make it last longer. I am also pretty sure that I read that most of his studio recording was done direct to the board---ie no amp at all.
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: I'm trying to got closer to a Jaco sound..
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: I have a relatively new jazz bass and put on
: a warwick fretless neck. Did Jaco use round
: wounds? I'm finding with flats that there
: are so many bad strings out there.
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: I'm EQing a hartke HA7000 knocking out the
: bottom strongly at about 125 and then coming
: up strongly to 2K, using mostly the bridge
: pickup with a little from the neck pickup,
: and adding just a little tone until it's
: just fully bright.
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: I know he used a chorus but I'm just trying
: to get reasonably close in tone to his basic
: sound.
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: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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: I have a 66 jazz bass that I could put the
: fretless neck on but I hesitate to put on
: and take off necks, and I should be able to
: get it in the ballpark with the new one.
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: I know hartke's are tough to work with..
: They are cheap though.
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: I'm also working with B-E-A-D, the bass is
: tweaked well, intonation is perfect, the
: neck is perfect - nice envelope sound on the
: whole neck.
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: Thanks for any help.
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: Mike
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: Hi Mike,
: I think the Warwick-neck with its ebony
: fingerboard canīt match the Jaco-Sound
: really.
: I donīt know what kind of fingerboard-wood
: the Fender Jazz had - I think it was
: rosewood (anyone who knows this exactly?).
: But itīs always the neckwood and fingerboard
: that makes the biggest influence on the
: sound of a bass (especially the fretless).
: Ebony sounds a bit harder than rosewood.
: Why did you change to the warwick neck?
: (Iīm playing a Warwick Thumbbass. I like
: itīs hard expressive sound which has also a
: big bass punch and growl - but I think we
: are looking for completly different
: bass-sounds )
: I think the best to get close to Jacoīs
: sound is to put a Jazzbass neck back on your
: instrument
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: Good luck and... Jaco rules
: Totsh
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: Let me jump in here....
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: i play a fretless warwick thumb (also a
: fretless godin and a fretless warwick
: masterman 5-string)
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: first, roundwound bass strings weren't
: available in the early 70's.
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: IMHO jaco's sound had more to do with the
: Acoustic amp with folded horn cabinet and
: bi-amped midrange/tweeter horns. all of his
: recordings that i have he was miking
: through the amps.
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: Most electric basses from that era relied
: alot more on the amp than on the pick-ups
: and strings... especially where basses were
: concerned. i heard jaco 3 times live and it
: was in those big acousic cabinets that that
: sound came from - that and his great
: fingering techniques.
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: Try Thomastik-Infeld jazz flatwounds.
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: Tom
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