Timeline for What is the "Jazz Bass Mid Scoop"?
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| Feb 25, 2021 at 15:48 | comment | added | Some_Guy | What a fantastic answer. Thank you for taking the time to put this together Edward, I really enjoyed it. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 20:55 | history | edited | Edward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
That was not quite right either. Correcting this and staying specific turns out to be quite complicated. I'll leave it vague.
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| Feb 24, 2021 at 20:50 | history | edited | Edward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected an error
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| Feb 24, 2021 at 20:18 | history | edited | Edward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added qualifying information about the calculations
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| Jan 26, 2021 at 22:43 | vote | accept | Edward | ||
| Jan 25, 2021 at 15:31 | comment | added | Edward | Having two non-identical pickups can cause (will cause?) cancellation too, but possibly to a much lesser degree. | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 15:23 | comment | added | Jérôme | Thanks. I figured it would be due to identical pups but I didn't read it anywhere in question or answer. Edit suggestion: "having two pickups at different positions" -> "having two identical pickups at different positions " | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 13:45 | comment | added | Edward | @Jérôme The Jazz Bass has two almost identical pickups, which have equal output at full volume, placed at different locations on the instrument. Thus cancellation can happen. This cancellation cannot happen on a P style bass because there is only one pickup. | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 13:37 | comment | added | Edward | @Tim A physical explanation for this is that the cancellation of a frequency depends on the distance between the pickups and the wavelength of the harmonic. Wavelength depends on frequency and the speed that waves propagate across the strings. This propagation speed does not change when you fret notes, because it depends on the weight and tension of the string, and not its length. And of course the distance between pickups is constant. | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 9:10 | comment | added | Tim | An interesting answer! You say that the scoop depends on the string length, open pitch, and pup placement. The 1st and 3rd of these remains constant, ony the pitch is a variable. The placement of pups is important - I guess, like a lot of guitars, the neck pup is actually on an open string harmonic node (I have many basses, but no Jazz, sadly!), and that node will change when different notes are fretted. That's what I don't understand - why it's only the open string that's important. | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 8:25 | comment | added | Jérôme | Nice detailed explanation. What si specific about the Jazz Bass, here? | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 7:26 | comment | added | John Belzaguy | Interesting that the open A’s scoop is ballpark 440, 3 octaves higher than the fundamental. Are they all about that? | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 7:12 | comment | added | Tetsujin | You don't have a Rikki 4001 you could test too, do you? Mine's packed away right now, but I've always thought they did something similar. For the past 40 years I've also EQ'd mine differently on each pickup to accentuate it, front pu bass-heavy, back pu treble-heavy, leaving a hole in the middle. | |
| Jan 24, 2021 at 22:28 | history | edited | Edward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
defined "mid-scooped"
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| Jan 24, 2021 at 22:19 | history | answered | Edward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |