Mikeg Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 im looking for a new bass and i have a budget of around £700 i love the sound of this bass: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTk71CjdbkE&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTk71CjdbkE&feature=related[/url] But i cant afford the 2000+ price tag ive considered doing a bitsa with high quality parts but i have no experience or skill in building guitars. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstrike Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Sadowsky sells his onboard pre-amps, I'd imagine them and some good J pickups(Dimarzio Area J's maybe?) would nail that sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_bass Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Massive fan of Sadowsky, those preamps are the dog's nuts. Bitsa including the parts you want to make it sound like a Sadowsky might come in over budget though? The Overwater Contemporary Jazz gets a lot of praise here, pretty much bang on your budget as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brensabre79 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 You can get yourself a reasonable JB copy along with a pre-amp and some decent pickups for that money. The preamp I got on my Jazz from AC Guitars was sold as a loaded control plate so all I had to do was hook up the pickups to it (4 wires, one more than a mains plug!) and screw the new plate on so really simple to do. But don't forget that a lot of the sound may be to do with the amp (and the player) too... Someone asked me at a gig a while ago how I got 'that sound', I let him have a play through my rig and it sounded nothing like my bass, and he agreed. I can get 'my sound' from pretty much any bass/amp set up with a few basic adjustments, I spent years (and lots of money) looking for 'someone elses sound' before I realised its largely down to the way you play it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Rich Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Or get a Sadowsky outboard preamp and plug almost any bass you like into it, instant fatness and warmth without losing the fundamental tone of the bass. I use mine all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeg Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 Thanks for the advise guys. im not looking to get the guys exact tone, ive just always liked active jazz tones, Marcus miller and such i think im cleared up on what electronics i should be looking at, but what about the actual bass? i love the look of the vintage modified squiers, or should i look for a good mexican jazz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisthebass Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 +1 on the Overwater Contemporary Jazz - definitely in your price range. Tried one out in Guitar Works in Reading when it was open, & if I'd had the readies, would have bought it without any hesitation. Lots of tonal variation even though the pickups aren't single coils - it sounds just as good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocco Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Trace T-bass? I have one for sale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doddy Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 [quote name='Darkstrike' timestamp='1320081239' post='1422073'] Sadowsky sells his onboard pre-amps, I'd imagine them and some good J pickups(Dimarzio Area J's maybe?) would nail that sound. [/quote] I believe that Sadowsky pickups used to be (still are?) very slightly modified DiMarzio Ultra Jazz. Anyway,the Ultra Jazz pickups running through a Sadowsky outboard pre amp sound killer-I run my main 4 string Jazz Bass like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstrike Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 There you have it, Ultra J's, Sadowsky Pre, dropped into a cherry picked Squier VM or CV Jazz, bet it'd be a winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topo morto Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 (edited) I know little of jazz basses but this moon fits your budget... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/155726-moon-jazz-bass/"]http://basschat.co.u...moon-jazz-bass/[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/155726-moon-jazz-bass/page__hl__moon__fromsearch__1"][/url] Edited October 31, 2011 by topo morto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornats Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Possibly not the best mix in the world (I lack a pair of reference monitors) but here's my Overwater Contemporary J in action: [url="http://soundcloud.com/mornats/in-a-small-and-smokey-club"]http://soundcloud.com/mornats/in-a-small-and-smokey-club[/url]. The bum note or two that you might hear is my clumsy fingers and not the bass. It sounds pretty damn awesome and plays like a £1500 bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 A second hand Lakland JO and either an on-board preamp (Sadowsky or Aguilar) or floor based pre. Might push your budget a little but worth the stretch in my opinion. I've only played one jazz bass that compared to my JO for me and it was a Celinder (the Scarbee Celinder that Flanker and CrazyKiwi used to own - used to be pictured at the top of the old Basschat forum page), and one of the finest basses I've ever touched... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Hughes Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 [quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1320236793' post='1424059'] A second hand Lakland JO and either an on-board preamp (Sadowsky or Aguilar) or floor based pre. [/quote] I've played that Bigwan's Lakland JO and it is one sweeeeeeeeeeeeet bass. And if it was in Olympic White....well, lordy knows we all have limits to our restraint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Mine's definitely NOT for sale! Ha ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 IIRC, that is a pretty clean and defined sound so you might want to start with how the bass all fits together because if you can't get that to work..no amount of add-ons will be able to rescue the sound. All they can do is enhance what is there...so a good strong resonance is the start-off. This can be why cheaper basses can be so hit and miss..and you are paying..on the better basses, for someone to be very good at putting this thing together. That is not to say that you have no chance but I'll pile money into quality parts and decent wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobpalt Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 One word. Marusczyk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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