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Post subject: American deluxe fender jazz bass 2010 electronic settings
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 3:36 am
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Hello, this is my first active bass, so I'm not used to the settings for the electronic

What are yours for the funk, disco, rock, motown, slap??


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Post subject: Re: American deluxe fender jazz bass 2010 electronic setting
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 1:02 pm
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There are a couple of reasons you aren't getting a response to this post. It isn't that we aren't friendly, it is just that you asked a question for which there is no concrete answers. So welcome to active Fender playing!

The settings will vary based on the different strings being used, different playing styles, varying physiologic components for finger style play (such as your finger nail length, shape, orientation on the fingertip, thickness, etc), your amp, your cab, your amp settings, processing like compression and even the room you play in. For pick players, where you pick related to pickup orientation and size/thickness of the pick varies. Settings that work great for someone else won't work quite the same for you. For example, if I set your bass to what I consider the perfect FUNK settings for me and you picked it up and played it with exactly the same settings it would sound completely different. This is compounded by the inescapable fact that two apparently identical instruments will frequently sound and behave quite differently when played by the same person.

Also there's really no way to index settings. This means that you can't say, "Set bass on 3, set treble on 5, set mids on 9 and pickup balance at 60/40 bridge to neck," because there's no numbers to index the controls. "O'Clock" settings are pretty much meaningless because depending on how the knob lines are oriented this can also vary. There can be quite a bit of tonal variance in very minor tweaks on an active bass.

Just experiment and find the settings that work for your instrument in your setup because they are definitely all in there and mostly it is a by feel thing to find them. Enjoy the treasure hunt!


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