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Posted by Pete Thats what I know. Good luck. Pete --Previous Message--
on 3/28/2005, 5:24 pm, in reply to "Jaco"
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Mike, Jaco used Rotosound swing bass round wounds. He had the fingerboard coated with a marine epoxy. According to interviews he said that he had the bass control on the amp all the way up.
: I'm trying to got closer to a Jaco sound..
:
: 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.
:
: 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
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