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Posted by Totsh on 3/29/2005, 5:07 am, in reply to "Jaco" --Previous Message-- Good luck and... Jaco rules
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: 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
:
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
Totsh
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