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Hey guys, just a quick update here. Had a get together with a friend who also has a jazz bass and he allowed me to temporarily borrow his pickups and control plate to do a bit of troubleshooting. Trying his control plate with my pickups darkened it up ever so slightly so it might partially be the 250k/500k issue, I also used his quarter pounder set with both control setups, and in the end my bass with the electronics of his sounded pretty monstrous. So now I'm going to purchase myself some 250k pots, a set of SD QP's, and I'm probably going to add a series/parallel switch into the mix also (I figure I'm redoing the thing anyway I might as well have a few more options). Somebody mentioned getting a "loom" from kiogon, Is he a member here? and, if so, How would I get in touch with him? Thanks to everybody who read and replied, I appreciate the help.

So many answers, thanks guys. And in reply to the many questions; [b]Different strings?:[/b] Already tried a couple sets as mentioned. No luck. [b]First Jazz Bass?:[/b] Kinda yeah. I've had a few P/J basses before and even the neck solo'd on this jazz is much brighter than the J bridge solo'd on the P/J's. None of the other basses had a maple neck on a maple body though, so that's why I was wondering if the excess brightness is just because of the materials and could maybe be balanced out with a set of bassier voiced pickups. [b]Maybe I don't like the Jazz Bass sound?: [/b]I've borrowed J Basses briefly before (and enjoyed them, which lead to me getting this one), and I've also used the J bridge pickup solo'd on my other basses to great effect. This particular bass seems to just have very little bottom end and quite a screechy upper end. Compared to my other basses it's kinda like comparing a telecaster to a les paul if you get my meaning. [b]What amp am i playing through?: [/b]I've been mostly playing DI'd into GuitarRig5 and Amplitube3 at home (I live in a sh*tty little paper walled flat) and listening through a big set of headphones. I have tried it into an SVT4-pro when I was jamming with some friends last week and had it EQ'd with the bass freq's maxed and the upper mids and treble rolled way back, even the drummer commented that my bass sound was unusually weak. But again, I dunno how much of that could be because we're so used to the P-bass sound. [b]Heard it in the mix?:[/b] I haven't heard it on a recording, but when jamming it sounded and felt pretty anaemic. It was kinda like I was stepping all over the guitarists "space" and muddying things up. It's hard to describe, but it definitely didn't work well in that band. [b]Pick or fingers?: [/b]Both. Even playing with my fingers over the 19/20th fret, it was a kinda hollow feeling boomy bassiness I was getting and not a rounded usable tone.

Hey guys. So a few months ago I picked up a new (to me) Squier Jazz Bass 70's natural in a trade, and even with the bridge pickup off and the tone control rolled off it's just way too bright and lacking low end for my liking. However since I absolutely love the feel of the neck, the the body shape, and the overall weight of it so much, I'm not quite ready to give up on it just yet. I've already tried flatwounds on it (which I didn't really like), and pure nickel strings, neither of which had that much of an efffect. Possible options I'm thinking of are new bridge, new pickups, or even modifying it to a P/J configuration like my other basses. I was just wondering if anybody here had this problem with this bass before? And, if so, were you successfully able to modify it to give it a more rounded or bassier sound?