Pickups for jazz

[LtKojak]

Re: Pickups for jazz

This is amazing.

It indeed is amazing, specially considering that the above performance was one slightly below average... that man was a musical genius and a performance monster.

I strongly suggest you to get all you can of Chuck Loeb. He's one of today's greatest. Plus, he's the one putting back bebop on the Jazz charts, both as a leader and with his compositions on the last two records with Fourplay.

HTH,

 

[SJ318]

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Wes, Charlie, and Grant,
Man, what huge shoulders to stand on. I especially like the "pop" G.Green gets on his attack. That sound, Charlie's, really sounds like A5's. You are getting great advice here, well, I mean, everyone is.
Seths are a good choice, but with maybe an un oriented A5 or just a roughcast A5. I have heard a lot of talk and tried Seths with an A4 also. A very nice flat type of EQ to fine tune with your amp and guitar settings. The Jazz set I have used, but really needed to bring the treble down and mid up a touch on the amp. I always leave the bass on the amps I use off. Just saying that cuz get it is a *me* thing I have always done. I would rather lower treble than use bass. On an amp it mushes everything I do. CC, GG, and WM. Wes is especially great to watch.
This thread is golden.
SJ

 

[Clint 55]

Re: Pickups for jazz

More tone.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Pickups for jazz

More tone.

And a solid state amp...right?

 

[Clint 55]

Re: Pickups for jazz

That's as solid state as it gets!

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Pickups for jazz

The longest-considerated quintaessential Jazz amp, the Polytone, is solid state. Another classic amp used for Jazz is the Roland jazz Chorus, which also is solid-state.

I've made what I think are pretty good-sounding presets for Jazz using modelers, both software- and hardware-based. I've been pretty satisfied with the Fender Mustang amp and the back-up unit for to my laptop gear, the Mustang Floor.

My actual live-playing rig consists in a Win10 laptop, a "lowly" M-Audio M-Track audio card, a couple of just as "lowly" Behringer B210Ds and a FCB1010 foot-controller, using Scufhamm Amp's S-Gear software amp modeler running in standalone mode.

I play mostly Smooth Jazz, and this setup's been a Godsend, tone-wise, since I've adopted it in May 2011.

HTH,

 

[Mincer]

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I have to say it. The Polytone is awful.
It was designed as a light alternative to tube amps, so musuicans can carry it around on a subway on the way to a gig. It was not designed for good tone at all. Sure, a great player can overcome that sound, but technology today has come so much farther that a Polytone is the last amp an aspiring jazzer should consider.

 

[Chickenwings]

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I have to say it. The Polytone is awful.

word.
JC's are not great either.
I don't care what famous players used them.

 

[vinnie1971]

Re: Pickups for jazz

The longest-considerated quintaessential Jazz amp, the Polytone, is solid state. Another classic amp used for Jazz is the Roland jazz Chorus, which also is solid-state.

I've made what I think are pretty good-sounding presets for Jazz using modelers, both software- and hardware-based. I've been pretty satisfied with the Fender Mustang amp and the back-up unit for to my laptop gear, the Mustang Floor.

My actual live-playing rig consists in a Win10 laptop, a "lowly" M-Audio M-Track audio card, a couple of just as "lowly" Behringer B210Ds and a FCB1010 foot-controller, using Scufhamm Amp's S-Gear software amp modeler running in standalone mode.

I play mostly Smooth Jazz, and this setup's been a Godsend, tone-wise, since I've adopted it in May 2011.

HTH,

I am a fan of the Roland JC- great clean tones. Good for other styles if s fender black face isn't clean enough ;-)


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[Aceman]

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when I Jazz (or whatever that noise is) on my Roland Cube, I use the Blackface model far more than the JC.

And who was it that said Peavey in LPB's amp thread??? Oh yeah....that was ME! Me & Joe Pass now.

 

[Securb]

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I have to say it. The Polytone is awful.

I might be wrong but I think this is the first time I have seen you slam a piece of gear. Typically you will say something along the lines of "it doesn't work for me". That being said I agree the Polytone is an ungodly POS.

 

[Mincer]

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Yeah, but every time I hear someone else use a PolyTone, I can tell that even if it is an excellent player I am listening to, they would sound 100% better with a good amp. So in this case, it not only doesn't work for me, but it doesn't work for anyone else, either.

 

[Aceman]

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So where did the Polytone myth come from?

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Pickups for jazz

joe pass was an endorsee for a while

 

[LtKojak]

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JC's are not great either.

Well... I'm not personally a fan either(meaning I couldn't be caught dead near one), nevertheless, all recordings studios I know have one, and to my surprise, I've been told it's being specifically requested and used all the time.

Just sayin'...

 

[Mincer]

Re: Pickups for jazz

So where did the Polytone myth come from?

They are small, and light, so they ended up on a lot of bandstands in major cites where musicians traveled by mass transit. You go to NYC to hear jazz and they are using a PolyTone, so when you come back home you order one.