Fender Jazz Knobs - position preference

[RickyV]

Ok. This isnt about whether you prefer your pick-up volumes at 100% and your tone at 50%. I am interested in where you like the white position indicator to be when it is in the full-on position.
I have just acquired a jazz bitsa and the white indicator marks are pointing up when the bass is in horizontal playing position (as per pic) but on my other jazzes I have always had them pointing down the length of the bell-plate directly towards the jack socket when full-on. So, how do others like to position theirs and also, how are they positioned when they leave the Fender factory? Does that vary too? Just curious......

[GarethFlatlands]

I aim mine at the closest corner of the neck pickup. No idea why but most of the other guitars I've played are angled more or less that way and it seemed like a good reference point.

[pineweasel]

Parallel to the neck with the lines pointing towards the headstock end

[Telebass]

Whenever I've had one, the zero position was pointing centrally up the bell plate toward the neck, or I've set it that way...

[gjones]

I try to get all the tuning pegs, on my Jazz Bass pointing in the same direction when my bass is in tune. I haven't managed it yet but I'll keep on trying

Edit; they have to be parallel to the headstock or it doesn't count.


Edit #2; Preferably pointing North

Edited April 27, 2017 by gjones

[dmccombe7]

As shown in your pic. Straight up
Dave

[Muppet]

Parallel to the neck and strings. On the Fender website most of the American models have them pointing this way too.

[FinnDave]

Can't say I've ever thought about it, got a couple of Jazzes upstairs, I'll look and see if I remember in the morning. Not something I look at while playing!

[Lozz196]

[quote name='Muppet' timestamp='1493331120' post='3287617']
Parallel to the neck and strings. On the Fender website most of the American models have them pointing this way too.
[/quote]

That`s always been the way I`ve set them every time I`ve had a Jazz.

[thebigyin]

Neck pick up full on...bridge pick up just on were you can hear it about 3 or 4.....tone on full.....as i like a warm wooley Bass tone and obviously were you play i would anchor thumb over neck pick up just my preference.....then again i like the Jaco sound over bridge pick up but don't find playing as comfortable
Nowadays i play a Fender Precision so easier for my type of sound.

[bazzbass]

[quote name='thebigyin' timestamp='1493356917' post='3287671']
Neck pick up full on...bridge pick up just on were you can hear it about 3 or 4.....tone on full.....as i like a warm wooley Bass tone and obviously were you play i would anchor thumb over neck pick up just my preference.....then again i like the Jaco sound over bridge pick up but don't find playing as comfortable
Nowadays i play a Fender Precision so easier for my type of sound.
[/quote]

lol you didn't even read the OP past the first word ,to quote [b]"Ok. This isnt about whether you prefer your pick-up volumes at 100% and your tone at 50%. I am interested in where you like the white position indicator to be when it is in the full-on position."[/b]

for the record I like em pointing up too

Edited April 28, 2017 by bazztard

[Conan]

[quote name='RickyV' timestamp='1493317303' post='3287477']


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Looking at the bass from this position, I like mine to be pointing at about the 4 o'clock position when full on. Or south-east if you prefer compass notation

[chrisanthony1211]

I only play precisions but use the knob locking screw as my "marker" which I have at about 5 o'clock when on full, I tend to have the tone rolled more forward than back so can always see where it is that way

[Muppet]

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1493357590' post='3287674']

for the record I like em pointing up too
[/quote]

See, that just does my head in!!! My brain tells me the lines must follow the length not the width...

[RickyV]

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See, that just does my head in!!! My brain tells me the lines must follow the length not the width...
[/quote]

I'm sort of with you there. Thats why I had always lined them up down the length of the bell-plate with the jack socket as the reference point. I picked this bass up the other night and straight away I have no idea whats going on!! Messes with your head!! Pretty sure I will be taking them off and re-positioning them...

[Yank]

Full on - pointing at lower far corner of bridge.

[tinyd]

This has to be one of the more 'niche' threads on BC

Mine point away from the jack socket when full on btw...

Edited April 28, 2017 by tinyd

[bassjim]

mines got vol/blend tone. Tone on full pointing towards the neck. Blend on centre facing north. Volume facing lower horn when on full.

[Dad3353]

[quote]Fender Jazz Knobs - position preference[/quote]

I try to avoid Fender jazz knobs at all times; they can be such bores.

[Marvin]

Get chrome knobs with no markings...it makes life so much simpler. 😊

[ahpook]

In line with the centre line of the control plate, so sort of 2 o'clock position.

Anything else ruins the symmetry of the control plate, OBVS

[Beer of the Bass]

The last proper Jazz I had would have looked like the OP's picture when the controls were at 100%, and that was how it came from Fender.

[FinnDave]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1493378466' post='3287896']
I try to avoid Fender jazz knobs at all times; they can be such bores.
[/quote]

[mike f]

12 o'clock. North. Paula Abdul - Straight up.

[Gottastopbuyinggear]

I looked at three Jazzes in a shop today, two MIM classics and a MIA. The positions were (basses hanging on the wall) one lot at 10 o'clock, one lot at 2 o'clock and one lot at six...