Jazzmaster tone

Jetfire

Im gassing a Jazzmaster for no good reason. I love the look of them but Im not sure what tonal bases it covers.  Id like something to do clean tones and non rock stuff. Also, do they only come with vintage frets and short scale?

Paul_C

it's the Jaguar that's short scale, the JM is std. Fender

frets depend on the model, as does the radius - IIRC my J Mascis sig had fattish frets and 9.5" radius

impmann

Jazzmaster is standard Fender scale length. As mentioned above there are different flavours out there that have different fret radius.

Tone... well, it covers a massive range of sounds... and I mean massive...

A good example of the overdriven tone (through a Crowther Hotcake) - solo starts at 2.45:

Andy at PGS makes most guitars sound ace, but...

I'll let you google Mascis etc for the stoner rock thing and then just check out Sonic Youth for the extreme stuff...

Just go and play one - that may be simpler than trying to explain.

Bron_Yr_Aur

Fook, I'd forgotten how good Nels is... that's gleaming.

GavRichList

Jetfire said:

no good reason. 

wrong

stickyfiddle

[Watches PGS video]

AARRRRGHH I NEED A JAZZMASTER NOW!!!

stickyfiddle

Some good JM tones here. Simple explanation of the controls too. 

RocknRollDave

"Jazzmaster Tone" sounds like a mash-up of Fast Show characters

meltedbuzzbox

Tonally the JM does it all for me. 

It does the biggest, fattest, chimiest, beautiful cleans in the single coil world and then if you wanna get dirty it can handle gain by the bucket load. 

Unfortunately these lovely pickup sounds cant be found on the classic players or the mascis variants (unless modded) but if you go for the new MIM classic series and the AVRI stuff you will hear traditional pups. 

They are well worth checking out

english_bob

Phil X. Flippin' heck. And they give Chappers shit for his online persona...

dogload

An album full of Jazzmaster

ewal

My Jazzmaster tone reference points along with the likes of Sonic Youth, J Mascis and the like, include the wonderful Swervedriver, The Raveonettes, and slightly less obviously Sharon Van Etten or more specifically her guitarist Doug Keith. There's also Kevin Shields of course, but his tone is drenched in so many effects that it is difficult to discern what's Jazzmaster and what's not.

iseverynamegone

If Andy at PGS demo'd Ebola I'd buy it.

dickieguitar

People don't like Jazzmasters because the shaky/inefficient bridge design is bad for sustain and makes them sound 'plinky' . 

But they are the most gorgeous guitars on earth if you know what to do with them.

meltedbuzzbox

dickieguitar said:

People don't like Jazzmasters because the shaky/inefficient bridge design is bad for sustain and makes them sound 'plinky' . 

But they are the most gorgeous guitars on earth if you know what to do with them.

that hasn't been an issue for a while since staytrem and Mastery addressed it

Lew

I wouldn't mind an Anderson Raven

meltedbuzzbox

Lew said:

I wouldn't mind an Anderson Raven

reported!

Lew

For having amazing taste?

meltedbuzzbox

Lew said:

For having amazing taste?

maybe if we were in Germany?

Lew

You always manage to bring the conversation round to your love of the sausage somehow. Amazing.

Jetfire

Oi, keep this on track :P