Bart Funk Bass Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Finally, I compared both of my Jazz Basses. Which one do you like more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorG Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Wow! They were too close for comfort. I have Ash with maple on my Ultra. I think Ash ad Rose wood gives depth and Maple and Alder give give brightness so I'm not surprised they're so similar. Think the Alder sounds a bit tighter but not much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Would have been better with the basses playing to a blank screen. That way there'd be no chance of confirmation bias creeping in. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Funk Bass Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 45 minutes ago, kodiakblair said: Would have been better with the basses playing to a blank screen. That way there'd be no chance of confirmation bias creeping in. Good idea! 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan63 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Are the settings on the basses and the amp the same or did you tweak the settings slightly to get 'your' sound ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 As with all these things I can never discern a difference. Personally, to me (and I’m sure I’ll sound like a heretic) a P bass sounds like a P and jazz a jazz, woods and necks don’t make much difference. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 The 2003 rosewood Jazz doesn’t sound quite as bright to me, which is what I’ve found with my two Jazzes, both US Professional, same make of strings etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40hz Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 I'll be stoned for this, but I can't hear any difference at all. If you hadn't put the graphic up and hadn't told us this was a comparison, I'd have assumed this was one bass playing the entire time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 A sample size of one of each. Scientifically meaningless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirellithecat Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 How about 2 : 1? I really can't tell any difference - they both just sound like my headphones! And I'm a Rosewoodophile! (sounds worse than it is .......) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 I might be cloth-eared & hearing-damaged from years of high-dB ear abuse, but with these comparisons and with my own basses I can never hear a difference that's not more likely to be attributable to pickups, electronics, pickup positioning or even hardware. I love the look & feel of a lacquered maple fretboard so for me it's an aesthetic & tactile choice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) The differences are extremely minuscule, for sure there would be no possible way to tell the difference in a mix with those two basses. Though the maple neck one does sound ever so slightly brighter and more lively to me and the rosewood neck one ever so slightly darker and duller, but honestly that could just be the strings, and I actually kind of suspects it very likely might be just exactly that in this case. Also some playing styles, amps and eventual microphones and other gear used for recording do lend them self more to bring out the differences in different basses than others, and some styles of playing paired with some gear/recording gear would make more or less everything sound more or less the same, without any doubt, for instance I couldn't tell any tonal difference whatsoever in the slapping parts of your video. And of course the audio quality of the video, once it's been through the converter to YouTube format, doesn't make it any easier to tell tonal differences when they are so subtle as happens to be the case between the sound samples you recorded of those two basses. Edited August 4, 2020 by Baloney Balderdash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 17 hours ago, Bart Funk Bass said: Finally, I compared both of my Jazz Basses. Which one do you like more? Red / rosewood, looks better. Well done anyone picking out the different woods without looking, wish I’d started wearing earplugs when you did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) Too close to call. The difference is so slight it could be down to something like the age of the strings. The ash has slightly less fret buzz. Edited August 4, 2020 by Bassfinger 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Funk Bass Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 10 hours ago, Aidan63 said: Are the settings on the basses and the amp the same or did you tweak the settings slightly to get 'your' sound ? Both basses were recorded with the same Ernie Ball strings. Bass plugged straight to the Focusrite interface. No EQ, no COMP. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Were both strung with strings from the same batch, fitted at the same time, and played roughly the same amount since? Are they set up identically for nut height, string height, intonation? Just too many variables to start attributing these slight differences to types of wood. Two very nice bases, by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Funk Bass Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 This is the same one set of strings. Nut height, string height, intonation are very similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybuoy Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 75 RI sounds way better to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Funk Bass Posted August 5, 2020 Author Share Posted August 5, 2020 For me too. But alder is way lighter and easier to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 9 hours ago, Bart Funk Bass said: This is the same one set of strings. Nut height, string height, intonation are very similar. Unfortunately for the test to have any validity similar isn't good enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Funk Bass Posted August 5, 2020 Author Share Posted August 5, 2020 If you don't like my test, there are bunch of them on YouTube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh971 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 I agree there is very little difference between the two. I'd lean towards the MIJ as my preference but I reckon that's mostly in the pickups rather than the woods. Wood wise I usually lean towards a maple neck but that's more of an aesthetic preference rather than anything to do with tone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Funk Bass Posted August 6, 2020 Author Share Posted August 6, 2020 It's been always a debate that the maple neck is much brighter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomthebass Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 On 06/08/2020 at 11:06, Bart Funk Bass said: It's been always a debate that the maple neck is much brighter For me maple fingerboard is snappy and crisp, rosewood is warmer but can be soggy... that's a consensus over at least 30 instruments 🙄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40hz Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 1 hour ago, tomthebass said: For me maple fingerboard is snappy and crisp, rosewood is warmer but can be soggy... that's a consensus over at least 30 instruments 🙄 Soggy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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