What will a Jaguar Bass do for me.........?

[Beedster]

1 minute ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

I respectfully disagree. His tone changed massively over the years, depending on his bass and amps. And he played at least 50% of the time with a pick in the 60s and early 70s.

 

His style and technique was entirely his own of course, but even that developed hugely.

 

But, this is going to lead us down the "tone is in the fingers" abyss and we really don't want to go down there do we? 😄

We agree then, fingers (you need them in the left hand as well) and amplification/volume. I think that’s what I said?
 

But the tone was not in a slab body

[Beedster]

Just now, Cosmo Valdemar said:

It's the maple cap neck. Aside from the slab body, that was the only difference. The pickup and circuit were standard. And as that tone was retained on Live At Leeds, where he was playing Frankenstein, logic points to the neck being responsible.

I used to own a replica built by @Rick's Fine '52. Maple cap neck from a Roger Waters sig, if I remember correctly. Steve Harris pickup. It had that definite extra snap and grit to the top end, so I'm content to believe the secret sauce was in the neck.

Well JE said he was sure it was the circuit, I’m going with him 👍

[Beedster]

… but either way, if I played that bass I would never get that tone, he could play an Encore and would probably get close 👍

[Cosmo Valdemar]

24 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Well JE said he was sure it was the circuit, I’m going with him 👍

Slabs had ordinary pickups and circuits, honestly. JE was wrong on this one.