jb2 pickups

[tdoody]

i have a jb2 swamp ash body, rosewood neck. i love the way it plays. the fit and finish on this bass is amazing. i have one problem. i am not in love with the pickups.
have any of you replaced the pups, with fralin's or nordstrands??
please give me any feed back.

td

[Datsgor]

Yea..I had to replace my pups. I put in DiMarzio Model J's. I wanted to be able to adjust the poles since I was having string balance problems before. Now it sounds great. i get alot of compliments on the sound. It is very dark though....darker than the Fralins or Ultra jazz's would be. I find i need to bump the treble up on my amp with the Model J's. But for getting a balanced string output....they are the way to go. If not the model J's....find something with raised poles......or other ones that are adjustable. Peace

[Chef]

Man, I *hated* the stock pickups.
Even with flat wounds, the top end was jus too much. Blech.

I put in Nord NJ4's. Very cleassic J sound, big booty, nice smooth top end.
The Fralins are a good choice as well, with a little more top end presence; but I already had a set of those in a Lakland JO5...

[Ken Baker]

Originally Posted by Chef

Man, I *hated* the stock pickups.
Even with flat wounds, the top end was jus too much. Blech.

Gee, why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel?

That really does seem to be the consensus. OTOH, don't most people swap third party pickups into Jazz basses?

I put in Nord NJ4's. Very cleassic J sound, big booty, nice smooth top end.

You ought hear the Big Splits in my 55-01. Dayum!

Ken...

[Nedmundo]

I don't have a JB-2, but I've been very happy with Lindy Fralin's noiseless Split-Jazz in my 2003 MIA Fender. They have raised poles under the A and D strings for good balance. The tone is very close to pure single coils, except they have less high end "sparkle," as one would expect. I don't mind, because I roll off the treble some anyway.

If I bought a JB-2, I might try Nordstrand's NJ4SE's for a thick, ballsy rock version of old-school tone.

[bassclef29]

Tdoody,
Check out this link, it has more of what you're looking for:

JB2 pickup swap

It's in this forum, called "JB2 Pickup Swap"

Cheers,
Joe in San Diego, CA

[tdoody]

hey i did it NJ4's in my jb2. what a difference. this bass is the bomb
tdoody