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One of Jerry's Kids
You are not removing a ton of wood I do not think it is going to adversely affect the bass.
J-bass pickup that sounds like a P bass?
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You are not removing a ton of wood I do not think it is going to adversely affect the bass.
some_dude
Raging BB Gunologist
My J basses get 80% of the way to my P Bass with the neck solo’d. Although there’s still that last 20% in a mix it can be hard to tell them apart.
IMO, you got to listen to the bass itself. If it’s naturally deep and thumpy it doesn’t matter what pickups you put into it it’ll sound deep and thumpy. Passive pickups are a filter, they can’t add what the bass lacks naturally.
You can also mess around with the EQ a bit by changing strings (I’ve found GHS Boomers will fatten up a bass).
IMO, you got to listen to the bass itself. If it’s naturally deep and thumpy it doesn’t matter what pickups you put into it it’ll sound deep and thumpy. Passive pickups are a filter, they can’t add what the bass lacks naturally.
You can also mess around with the EQ a bit by changing strings (I’ve found GHS Boomers will fatten up a bass).
chadd
New member
QP is a little more scooped, Hot Jazz is a little more mid focused. Both are darker than a standard jazz but nothing will sound as good as routing it for a P. Rolling off the tone may help a bit as well.
Full disclosure, I had my Toby IV routed for a P because nothing else got me where I wanted.
Full disclosure, I had my Toby IV routed for a P because nothing else got me where I wanted.
alex1fly
Well-known member
IMO the thunk of a P Bass pickup is really only appreciated in a live setting where it fits so, so nicely in the mix and tickles the subwoofers in a beautiful way. I wouldn't chase this particular tone for home or recording, but as mentioned there are a variety of ways to get a fatter, grindier, middier sound out of a Jazz Bass. And the Jazz Bass does it's own beautiful thing with both volumes up all the way, or with one volume at full and the other at 8/9. I wouldn't want to mod a Jazz Bass to sound like a P, either.
One of the great things about the bass guitar is that there are so few food groups of tone. You can literally do just about everything you need to do, tone-wise, on 1 or 2 bass guitars.
One of the great things about the bass guitar is that there are so few food groups of tone. You can literally do just about everything you need to do, tone-wise, on 1 or 2 bass guitars.
NegativeEase
New member
Quarter Pounders are probably your best option
Benjy_26
25's Nemesis
Benjy_26
25's Nemesis
Is it?
GuitarStv
Sock Market Trader
Well, it took me a good long while . . . but I've found a solution to my problem.
Seymour Duncan Apollo pickups:
These do exactly what I was looking for . . . similar to the original pickups I had but they add a little bit more beef without getting boomy and a bit more output. With both pickups full up it gets the same kinda mid-scoopy sound that I've always liked from this bass. But now there's a whole hum-free palette of sounds. Before I could never use the bridge pickup on solo'd - way too bright. With the Apollo pickups it's growly but still with some decent low end. Neck solo'd is dark, but with definition and gets P-bassish enough for me. String to string balance seems better too . . . I felt like no matter what I did with the pickup mounting screws the high E on the neck and the low E on the bridge were both sometimes jumping out a little too much with the Duncan Designed stuff.
The bridge is great for slapping, and all positions sound better while playing with a pick now. And it's really nice to be able to mess with either volume without incurring the dreaded wrath of the hum - these are dead silent pickups.
Not exactly a huge departure from what was there, but this fixes all the problems I was running into. They're pretty nice pickups.
Seymour Duncan Apollo pickups:
These do exactly what I was looking for . . . similar to the original pickups I had but they add a little bit more beef without getting boomy and a bit more output. With both pickups full up it gets the same kinda mid-scoopy sound that I've always liked from this bass. But now there's a whole hum-free palette of sounds. Before I could never use the bridge pickup on solo'd - way too bright. With the Apollo pickups it's growly but still with some decent low end. Neck solo'd is dark, but with definition and gets P-bassish enough for me. String to string balance seems better too . . . I felt like no matter what I did with the pickup mounting screws the high E on the neck and the low E on the bridge were both sometimes jumping out a little too much with the Duncan Designed stuff.
The bridge is great for slapping, and all positions sound better while playing with a pick now. And it's really nice to be able to mess with either volume without incurring the dreaded wrath of the hum - these are dead silent pickups.
Not exactly a huge departure from what was there, but this fixes all the problems I was running into. They're pretty nice pickups.
GuitarStv
Sock Market Trader
I like the new pickups I got. They may not give exactly the P bass sound, but they do what I was hoping for.
eclecticsynergy
Well-known member
I put a Model J in my lawsuit Ibanez in the 70s and it's been there ever since.
Not really that much like a Pbass but rich fat tone, punchy and noiseless.
Not really that much like a Pbass but rich fat tone, punchy and noiseless.
GuitarStv
Sock Market Trader
I put a Model J in my lawsuit Ibanez in the 70s and it's been there ever since.
Not really that much like a Pbass but rich fat tone, punchy and noiseless.
Yeah, I was interested in the model J as well but found a good deal on the apollos. I think they're both using sort of the same tech right, side by side humbuckers?
