Frenchy-Lefty wrote:
Addison, now will you tell us how this little beast sounds in comparaison to let say your custom shop Jazz or a regular Jazz...will ya? Eh?
Sure!
But, I can only compare to my Custom Shop.
I actually recorded some A/B comparisons because I was also doing some pickup swaps as well. I picked up some Nordy NJ4's and a set of NJ4SV's.
I'll try to post those soon.
The differences weren't crazy, in my opinion... I mean, we are talking about the same platform. Same body shape, neck shape, scale length, pickup type, pickup spacing, etc... so all of those similar factors will certainly contribute to the basses sounding similar.
The noticeable differences were pretty stereotypical, and there weren't any big surprises.
My custom shop, which is alder with a capped rosewood board has a bit of a sweeter more subtle high-end, thicker and more pronounced midrange, and a more compressed overall tone with a tighter low-end.
My ADE, which is swamp ash with a glued-on slab maple board (it's not a solid one-piece neck) has a bigger and more open bottom end, slightly subdued midrange, and a snappy, slightly brighter high end.
Could you tell the difference between basses in a live music situation? Probably not... but on a recording, I can see both basses being very useful.
On another note, I can not believe how goddamned amazing of a job these guys do on their necks and fretwork these days. Both of the basses I have set up and play as good or better than any high-end boutique bass I've ever owned.
I set all of my basses up the same... necks with almost no relief and my action is just a hair less than 1/16th from the top of the 12th fret to the bottom of each string. That's pretty low action for most people, I think, and they can take it... no problem at all.
I know Fender gets a lot of flack, but these are simply great basses... all the way around.
