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Originally Posted by DeadDiscoDildo
and about distortion...I havent heard the jazzmaster distorted yet but I can't imagine it would be bad. Basically here's my situation. I have a japanese strat and a les paul, can do some weird bendy sounds with the strat, has a nice vicious sloppy garage tone.
Unfortunately, I don't think you'll get a world of different (or even better) tone from the Jazzmaster than the Strat. Both fender'y sounding and more like each other than a tele for example. To have a LP and Strat, gives you a lot to work with. Just my take on it. But, if you're over the LP sound.... going all Fender isn't a shame.
My les paul is my "nicer" tone guitar, but im sick of how heavy it is (not a big deal) but just mainly sick of all black and gold, kind of dreary. I want a sunburst guitar again. I feel tobacco burst is my personality.
But also I need a guitar that has better, harder, mid range bite, so far I played a tele and the jazzmaster and this jazzmaster beat out the tele in the same price range!
My thoughts exactly, the LP is more mellow sounding, that's why you'll get really full, lush overdrive w/ them. The Fenders are more round sounding (more in the mids) but the overdrives are more muddy, gritty, etc.... could be a good thing for your sound?
The emg's on my les paul arent cutting it. It breaks up the tone too much clean when it's loud, and when it's distorted its fine, but almost too metal sounding.
Hard to hear by just the description, but try to lower the p/u's position significantly and see what happens. You can also move them closer to the strings and it can totally change the dynamics. same basic tone, but highs to mids to lows will change. Generally, if you pull the p/u's away from the strings, they'll be more full and break-up smoother. If you move them to towards, they can sound thinner and hot. Might find something you like just by moving the p/u's.
I play alot of surf/garage rock/we're a 3 piece so alot of clean/loud/pixies nirvana techniques and also alot of two note droning with the E and A string and walk around alot so I want something real mid-range and defined.
I played the jazzmaster thru a Fender bassman which is my amp, and it sounded great, now I just need to hear what it sounds like distorted with the bad monkey overdrive I use
Mid Rangey and Defined = Jazzmaster, and Fender's in general (your on to something). Not teasing, but it's kinda interesting how you're playing surf rock, and play through a Fender Bassman. Ideal and iconic to that music style is the Reverb. Bassman's are about the only thing Fender does without Reverb's. Sounds interesting. Also, Bassmans are great amps, but have you experimented with other Fenders? They aren't well suited for those styles. They are a pretty decent pedal platform but of all Fender amps, tend to be the muddiest sounding, especially when trying to drive them (pedals or not).
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