Papabull Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 I'm really not trying to sound stoopid (or play Devil's advocate) but would appreciate your thoughts regarding putting flats on a jazz bass. 1.Is this taboo? 2.Can it work? 3.Does it make any sense? 4. Most importantly can i get that burpy sound from the the bridge pick up using flats? Your thoughts would be VERY welcome best wishes to all paul h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Why not ? Doesn't Meshell thingy-whatsit use flats on a jazz ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skej21 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 [quote name='ThePapabull' timestamp='1489783846' post='3259904'] I'm really not trying to sound stoopid (or play Devil's advocate) but would appreciate your thoughts regarding putting flats on a jazz bass. 1.Is this taboo? 2.Can it work? 3.Does it make any sense? 4. Most importantly can i get that burpy sound from the the bridge pick up using flats? Your thoughts would be VERY welcome best wishes to all paul h [/quote] 1) I hope not as I have done it for a long time, as it was more historically accurate for the '62 Reissue Jazz I had 2) It works great (unless you dislike the answer for #4!) 3) If anything, it makes MORE sense 4) I didn't with mine BUT that was one of the reasons for doing it. I always found the jazz too zingy and the flats subdued a lot of what I didn't like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJTee Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Pretty sure Flea has flats on his Jazz when recording? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtcat Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I've had flats on a Jazz before and really liked the fatness of the sound. Definitely not taboo, it certainly works and makes sense to me. It may will undoubtedly tame the burpy bridge pickup sound a bit but to my ears that was on improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Seem to remember Jazz basses came strung with flats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlloyd Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Joe Osborne [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGDt2skie84[/media] (can't actually hear any bass on my work computer... I'm guessing it's still there) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Herbie Flowers? Also, listening to Ron Blair's work on early Tom Petty albums, I would say that he used flats on his (1964) Jazz bass. What is a taboo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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