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Posted by rich
on 4/2/2006, 7:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Jaco"
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Jaco always used Rotosounds. Also the reverb from his digital delay combined with the old acoustic amp help make his sound. Then the old jazz basses just are hard to duplicate. Previous Message--
: 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.
:
: 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.
:
: 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.
:
: 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.
:
: I know hartke's are tough to work with..
: They are cheap though.
:
: 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.
:
: Thanks for any help.
:
: Mike
:
: 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
:
: 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)
:
: first, roundwound bass strings weren't
: available in the early 70's.
:
: 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.
:
: 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.
:
: Try Thomastik-Infeld jazz flatwounds.
:
: Tom
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