Stingray tone with Jazz pickups

[sciamu]

I'm replacing the stock onboard preamp of my MIM Fender jazz deluxe with a SeymourDuncan Stingray preamp.

Any ideas about what Jazz-shape pickups I should put on it to get a Stingray sound (I mean growling bottom end and clacky highs when played with a pick) or at least very close to it?

(Please don't tell me I should buy a REAL Stingray, I already know it ;-p )

[Death Hands]

Scooped mids, bothe pups full-on and a generous treble boost?

[Super Bass]

Put a Stingray pickup in it. :poke:

 

or this...

 

It's a Delano Hybrid, has the possibility of a Stingray sound or a Jazz sound in the one pickup.

 

[collinwho]

Maybe a stacked humbucker of some sort? I know they make them for guitar, do they make them for bass?

[Jugghaid]

Jazz pickups won't sound like a stingray.

[In Absentia]

http://www.basstasters.com/pickups/Nordstrand_MM.html

 

Put one of these in there.

[Death Hands]

Jazz pickups won't sound like a stingray.

 

I got relatively close with my Jazz, pretty easily, sooooo...

[Jugghaid]

I got relatively close with my Jazz, pretty easily, sooooo...

 

I'm not saying you can't get a good sound, but it won't sound like a Ray.

 

just like a les Paul isn't gonna sound like a strat and vice-versa.

 

single-coils don't sound like humbuckers.

 

If they did, we wouldn't really have a need for both.

 

And what is "realtively close". That's pretty subjective. They both sound "relatively close" to a precision bass too depending on what you call close. They all sound like a bass.

[Death Hands]

 

I'm not saying you can't get a good sound, but it won't sound like a Ray. just like a les Paul isn't gonna sound like a strat and vice-versa. single-coils don't sound like humbuckers. If they did, we wouldn't really have a need for both. And what is "realtively close". That's pretty subjective. They both sound "relatively close" to a precision bass too depending on what you call close. They all sound like a bass.

 

I mean that aggressive, punchy, growly sound. Like Stingray Era Flea. You can get just about any sound you want if you {censored} with your EQ, regardless of pickup configuration.

[sciamu]

Put a Stingray pickup in it. :poke: or this... It's a Delano Hybrid, has the possibility of a Stingray sound or a Jazz sound in the one pickup.

 

Wow It seems to be a very interesting solution....

How does it sound?

[Optimus Prime]

Wow It seems to be a very interesting solution.... How does it sounds?

I hear the Delano pickups sound like ass without a preamp. But you have one, so it would probably be awesome.

[Super Bass]

I hear the Delano pickups sound like ass without a preamp. But you have one, so it would probably be awesome.

 

Who told you that?

[Optimus Prime]

Who told you that?

Talkbass.

[Super Bass]

Right.... consider your source...

 

I might put a Delano P in my fretless in the future. It's passive, I'll let people know how it goes.

[Optimus Prime]

Right.... consider your source... I might put a Delano P in my fretless in the future. It's passive, I'll let people know how it goes.

I want to put a set of JMVC 4 FE/M2s in my Jazz. Too expensive. There's a set on sale over on TB right now though. Too bad I'm poor.

[hi.flyer]

How about wiring the two single coil J pickups in series (like a humbucker, MM or otherwise)?

[FloydianAnimal]

I was actually considering putting a MM/J configuration of Delanos in my Marcus Miller Jazz thinking they might work well with the preamp. I wonder how they would sound in passive mode vs. active though...

[L-1329]

How about wiring the two single coil J pickups in series (like a humbucker, MM or otherwise)?

 

That is essentially just what the Reverend 5L is, and it's aggressive, punchy and growley as all hell.

[Super Bass]

I want to put a set of JMVC 4 FE/M2s in my Jazz. Too expensive. There's a set on sale over on TB right now though. Too bad I'm poor.

 

I like mine a lot. I was gonna go with the J4 HE pickups (covered J's) initially but the Delano people were away at NAMM and the store didn't have any in. I would have had to wait for a month until they picked up production again.