Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 12, 2014 Moderators Share Posted March 12, 2014 OK, just in the process of bits buying for a Jazz bass build, the old Korean Squier is getting retired, too heavy, so have a lovely light ash body and Warmoth neck, so should come out just under the 8lb mark Don't need any vintage J sounds anymore, I want a big whomping thudder. I've narrowed it down to these three, although open to other suggestions, I know there are a few DiMarzio Js that will do the trick, and Barts are complex in their offerings. They'll be for rock n blues and alt rock, fingerstyle mostly but requirement to play a bit of Lizzy every now and then so neck pickup and a pick required. Gentlemen, your suggestions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted March 12, 2014 Members Share Posted March 12, 2014 Don't Know If I've heard any of those first hand besides the Dimarzio.I guess the Bartolini might be the best choice.I was shopping for a new bass pickup for my modified Gretch bass last week.I added a Vintage Seymour Duncan Jazz Bass Bridge pickup in there and I'm not happy with the tonesin comparison to the stock Humbucker. I needed to find something that would fit in the route I had already made or something that required a larger route that would concealthe Jazz Pickup Route. I did want a Humbucker which I thought would be a better match and came across one of these Wilkinson MWJF4 http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/390477112781?lpid=82 They're cheap enough so I'm not going to loose out if it doesn't fit with an expanded route job. I just have to keep my fingers crossed that ithas some decent bridge tones to blend with the center/neck pickup . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted March 12, 2014 Members Share Posted March 12, 2014 . . . I needed to find something that would fit in the route I had already made or something that required a larger route that would conceal the Jazz Pickup Route. . . . No recommendations for the OP but you might want to look at a soapbar style. Again, no specific suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted March 12, 2014 Members Share Posted March 12, 2014 ^^^ Yea I should have gone that way to begin with but I had a couple of Jazz bass pups in my spare parts locker I was going to put in one of my builds.I have an EMG I like in my one build and it would have been ideal for the Gretch, but it wouldn't have been large enough to conceal the previous route. As I said I did get the SD to work but Had to jump through some hoops. The Single coil with the Original HB had phase issues, Two North poles and one south or vice versawhen run with the Humbucker. Using a 250K pot on the single coil helped but when I turned the single full up it still phased the HB out instead of blending like matched pairsor similar pups do. I'm guessing the single is just too hot. I later used a cap in series with the single coil to act as a high pass filter and it worked for blending and I do use it to get some needed snap on the short scale bass,but its still not right. I used to have this same issue on an old Gibson SG bass. The Center pup sounded great solo and when you cranked the bridge pup up it sounded likethin crap. Getting just a little bridge to blend was a very small window on the knob and 1/32 turn either way and it was too much or too little. I'm hoping a pair of HB's will have abetter balance. At the same time I have a new 500K pot I need to put in there. I went cheap last time and the budget 250k pot flakes out. You don't hear it when you're playing but recordingdirect, the bass vibrations must cause some kind of low level static arching in the background. When the DAW plays back the track it triggers a digital crackle. Took me a long time to figure out what was causing it. I though I was just tracking too hot and the transients were spiking the 0db ceiling. Cleaning the pot is just a temp fix. Its just built too cheap to be bothered with so it gets a swap when I routs the larger hole for the new pickup. I'm not expecting great tone. The center/neck is a really good recording pickup that males a short scale sound as beefy as a long scaled bass. All I need is a little blending for different genres of music which you cant get by processing a single pickup. I sometimes mute the strings near the bridgeand use a pick down there to get a punchy pluck to the strings. Having a little bridge tone is what's needed to make it sound good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 12, 2014 Members Share Posted March 12, 2014 Wilde J-45 :http://www.wildepickups.com/Bass_Pickups.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 14, 2014 Author Moderators Share Posted March 14, 2014 OK, settled on the Dimarzio, but aftre getting to play a few basses thanks to a local friendly studio, and round Bath you cant help but stumble over the feckers, swamp ash jazz basses with a set of DiMarzio Area Js is the life for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted March 17, 2014 Author Moderators Share Posted March 17, 2014 Wilde J-45 : http://www.wildepickups.com/Bass_Pickups.html Sorry, forgot to answer this comment, but I simply don't buy Wilde pickups as really it's only practical to order up by phone, and not easy from the UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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