johnpaulbass Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 A quick test between 3 great jazz basses, for your hearing pleasure. Which one do you like the most ? Thanks for listening! 1. Xotic XJ-1T : alder body, rosewood fingerboard, maple neck 2. Fender Marcus Miller 5 string: ash body, maple fingerboard, maple neck 3. Alleva Coppolo LM5 deluxe: empress body, maple fingerboard, maple neck https://soundcloud.com/user-443197150/sets/5-string-jazz-bass-battle-xotic-alleva-coppolo-fender?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I expected the Miller to sound brighter.. There is not a lot between them.. All sound great, all jazz basses.. But just for arguments sake I will take Alleva please. Ive got expensive taste. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 The rosewood fingerboard looks best, that would steer my choice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FDC484950 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 You can’t really tell what the B string is like from the sound samples as you’re just down at the very bottom. Try recording right up to the 9th-12th frets. Any 5 can sound reasonable in the first 3-5 frets. That said, the Xotic B (and the rest) sounded much better than the other two to my ears. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliverBlackman Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Funny how this pretty much confirmed my pre existing thoughts of my own preferences . I prefer the sound of rosewood to maple boards for finger style. I prefer passive sound over active. The Alleva was slightly richer sounding than the MM and had a much tighter sounding B string and is probably the one I’d have overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBass Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Sonically, I prefer the Xotic, I prefer a brighter tone and always have my (passive MIM J bass's) tone knob on fully. With a pick the Xotic was a bit too bright for me and the other two sound better, but one could always dial back the tone. Visually I'm not a fan of any of them but dislike the Alleva least of all-nice body, some about the headstock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40hz Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I'm going to be a heretic and state that they all sounded more or less the same to me. The Xotic seemed to be a bit brighter, the Alleva duller and the Fender somewhere in the middle . But, fundamentally, a figurative gnats c*** between them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronJ Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Preferred the Xotic, which is just as well since I own two of them fantastic basses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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