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Posted at August 27, 2009, 10:04 pm:

how would i get a jaco like tone out of a regular fender fretless with roundwound strings?

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experiment.

By playing over the bridge pickup, with the bridge pickup selected onl...

jaco, played out of a 2x15 also

Does the epoxied fretboard help? That's something I've been meaning to...

Some Nordstrand NJ4SEs for that godly syrupy tone.

Use roundwounds.

I thought it was an 18.

Solo the bridge.

Seymour-Duncan Antiquity IIs are supposed to be like the ones they cus...

i believe he also moved his bridge back a little.

^Wouldn't it then be impossible to intonate?

its fretless so you intonate yourself while playing.

TONS of mids, lay off the bass, solo the bridge pup, roll the tone kno...

Well 70's jazzes had their bridge pickup close to the bridge than any ...

and i'm almost positive jaco didn't like the positioning so he did som...

Jaco's was a '62 though

370 acoutic amp through a 2x18 cab

I'd advise against trying to get Jaco's tone, find your own.

this has nothing to do what the thread but i had wanted a fretless bas...

Cool, but the fact is a heck of a lot of musicians who see a fretless ...

cha.

Boost mids all the way, or almost all the way Cut bass slightly Boos...

Umm.

What's with this Jaco "no bass" crap? He played with his bas...

The amp designs of the time are not quite like those in use today.

Nope.

Maybe the tone they want is the same as his was.

Or they are playing one of his songs and would like to replicate his t...

Alot of Jaco's tone came from his fingers.

Jaco always went straight in when recording studio anyway.

trying to get jaco's tone on a fretless jazz bass? pshaw.

if jaco was punk, wtf @ bumping a 7 month old thread?

and this.

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