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is the first jazz a Tribute??it´s amazing

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[quote name='rslaing' post='531655' date='Jul 3 2009, 01:31 PM']DO these players all play Fender? Like I said in my edit (which you may not have seen before your last post), maybe higher action is a benefit to Fender only? Just a thought - I'm not knocking Fender BTW![/quote] In italy a well known stereotype is : Fender play better off with med. action. Still, I made my Fender jazz sing wonderfully with the lowest action obtainable. However, things get easier to mewhen I play basses with higher radius (flat fingerboard). Some Fender basses have a strongly rounded fingerboard, and this makes harder to find the right compromise between low action, straight neck, light but speed touch and having an effective sound.(and maybe this is one of the reasons why my main bass is not a jazz but not by Fender)

I'm presuming we're speaking about good basses with a well/leveled fretboard. There are basses with which you have to deal with bitter frets buzz when you get low with the action. Still, technique has the biggest part: yet before technique, just "where" do you play makes a big difference

higher action = better tone, once it was my idea too, but now I've radically changed my mind. It's all about touch. My mind was changed by a great italian jazz performer whom I told the same thing: "when I want to give a strong dynamic to the sound or just being crazy at y gig my bass play worse with a lower action". He told me: Federico, I know you teach martial arts. When you do that, do you teach your pupils to hit strong? or to hit fast and precise in order to get the most effective result? I said, exactly the second one. He said: when you got expert it's kind of automatic to give fists and kicks fast,precise and bloody effective even in the worst situations. Thus you forget how to be brutal. I said: you've got the point chief. I spent days doing just one silly but effective exercise: left hand laid on the fingerboard in rest, muting the strings. Right hand. Put your fingers on a string. Prepare yourself to hit the strings. Focus on being as much fast as possible. You won't have strenght on your fingers because they'll be already laid on the strings. Focus focus focus and then hit! repeat,repeat,repeat. Have you seen Kill Bill when Uma tries to escape from her cuffin? =D well same idea.

If i were you I would made exactly the same choice. MM alnico and sjb-2 The reasons are: 1) you need a single coil with high output, otherwise it might be overwhelmed by the humbucker. 2) I was an obsessive "pimp up my bass" guy, and I tried a lot of PUPS. Both Alnico and MM and Sjb-2,as SD web page claims, have a rough mid sound, and they suit perfectly with the typical "sleeky shade" which is given by active electronics. Sjb 2 aren't my favourite pups by SD, great growly sound but a bit darker maybe, and they are noisy with passive electronic. However, they were perfect when I used them through an active electronic(which cancels the single coil noise).

Hello everybody, A friend of mine is thinking about selling his Fender jazz 24 made in korea, but he hasn't got a clue of how to price it. It is in very good conditions etc. etc. Can you help me?

www.myspace.com/theonets Hey guys, I know Monday is not the best day, but if you like hanging around in Camden you can drop by the cool Proud Galleries and give a listening to my band, we are quite good ;-) Proud Galleries is in Chalk Farm Road, in the ex-Horse Hospital! Bye guys, thank you in advance!