On my original, I place an ugly piece of foam under the strings by the bridge to shorten the decay of the note. The coolest thing the Custom Shop did was address the foam muting. The feel and sound are copied from my original 61, but it doesn’t look like a carbon copy. I love the idea of having different color choices to make someone else’s signature bass feel like your own. Mike suggested offering the bass in different colors, and I thought that was a fantastic idea. They measured everything and got to work on recreating it. Mike Eldred, who headed up the Custom Shop at the time, asked me to bring my bass to the shop in December 2012. My signature Fender Custom Shop Bass is a copy of my main Mayer bass, my 1961 Fender P. You have a signature Fender Custom Shop bass that certainly has a great vintage vibe to it. I definitely did my homework regarding what gear my idols used and realized I needed to have that same gear in order to get the tone I wanted. It was frustrating to figure it out without the money to buy actual vintage gear.Īs my quest continued, I realized the sound I craved and wanted to emulate stemmed from this classic equipment. The classic vintage tone I was after was only possible with certain combinations of vintage or vintage inspired gear. I didn’t quite find my true voice on the instrument until 1999, when I recorded and toured with Vertical Horizon. I’ve had many stops along the way on my quest for the right gear. You seem to have done your homework to trace the roots’ of vintage bass equipment and classic tone?
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NOTE: This is an edited version of the interview, it will be published in full in the EBS MAGAZINE 2015, to be released at MUSIKMESSE in Frankfurt 2015. We had the chance to meet Sean in Stockholm at the gig with John Mayer earlier in 2014, a very inspirational meeting (and great concert) that developed into this interview. Sean Hurley with his Signature Custom Shop Fender bass – photo by Ralf Bjurboīorn in 1973, Sean Hurley is in the middle of a successful career as a first-call session bass player in Los Angeles, and member of John Mayer’s band since 2008.
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