Rolf

I got this MIJ Fender Jazz brand new in 1992, when I was 17. I played it exclusively for 3-4 years, and after that at least 50% of the time. After a few years I mostly played 8-string bass in a metal band, and it got used less and less. I pick it up sporadically these days, it's a good bass but I can't seem to get the sound I want out of it anymore. I've been thinking of selling it and getting another fretless.

I have a TB Raxx too, with a matching 120w power amp. It's a great sounding rig.

Custom Jazz, made from Warmoth parts. Beautiful woods, sounded good, but I just didn't connect with it. I had it for a long time and used it a bit, but later when I realized I hadn't picked it up and played it in 3 years, I sold it. Funnily enough to the guy I bought it from 8-9 years earlier. It was a pretty good bass, but not for me. I got this SG in a trade and I tried liking it, but it just didn't happen. It didn't feel like a quality instrument and everything I played sounded like a dull thud. Sold it and scraped together enough to buy a Warwick Thumb NT5, so absolutely no regrets there.

I've been lucky and usually had someone else to pick up for me if it was far way. The last bass I bought was on the other side of the country, a guy from work was there by chance and was able to pick up the bass and drive it home.

Dimarzio Model J. I have a set in my Warwick and they are hot and fat.

It’s great, it’s Muff-based but it’s far better than original Big Muffs IMO. It doesn’t scoop out the mids, it keeps the low end and there’s loads of gain available. Fuzzy grind with definition. I used it on guitar for years and just kept it on my board when I went back to playing bass, and it’s just as good now.

New board, still a work in prgress and may need a little rearranging. Trying out the DemonFX Alpha Omicron, it sounds really good.

Yeah, a bubinga Jazz body would probably have enough mass to catch smaller objects in its gravity field. But walnut or mahogany shouldn't be too bad.

I've been toying with the idea of building a Jazz bass with Thumb pickup placement, maybe even with a wenge neck, just to see if I could get someting similar sounding. It's somewhere on my very long list of future projects

I have an old 1988 NT5 and I have no issues with neck dive, the body is quite heavy so that helps balancing things out. The first fret seems a long way away if you're familiar with Fender type basses, I've played a couple of Warwicks before I got this so I got used to it quickly. It has THE Warwick sound, and the B string is probably the best I've encountered. It's also great in drop A tuning. They're certainly a little out of the ordinary but I love mine.

"Hate" is too strong a word, but "disappointment" certainly isn't. I got a Gibson SG bass in a trade and it basically did not feel like a quality instrument, at all. It looked pretty cool, but it was unbalanced, with poor hardware and pickups. It came with flats and everything I played sounded like a dull thud with no sustain. Then I changed to rounds, which made everything I played sound like a dull clunk with no sustain. I don't know how Gibson can keep selling them. Thankfully I sold it pretty quickly, for good money, and spent it on a bass I wanted instead.

I have my parts P-bass strung in BEAD and it works good. I also have a Hipshot d-tuner so I can go down to A, it's a little floppy with a .130, a .135 would be better.

I'm a fan of the Dimarzio Model Js, I have them in my old Warwick Streamer. They're dark but not muddy, and have a lot of output. If you connect the coils in series it's getting close to a P sound.

I recently got it, or rather one of my dream basses: That leaves a Wal mk.1 and a Vigier Passion, the one with a carbon fiber neck.

I love 8s, but I can feel the neck dive from here.