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Posted by Tom Kinter on 6/25/2005, 11:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Jaco" --Previous Message-- Let me jump in here.... 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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: --Previous Message--
: 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
:
: Good luck and... Jaco rules
: Totsh
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