60s Jazz bridge pickup: Will any humcancelling pickup sound right?

[sheepdog]

Is there a humcancelling jazz pickup that, when used in the 60s bridge position, will sound like a 60s jazz bridge pickup? I am specifically interested in 5 string pickups. I listened to a youtube clip of a 60s RI Jazz and realized between the 2 pickups, it was the bridge pickup that I liked the sound of. I just have had bad luck with single coils humming too much. I would probably not use it with a Jazz neck pickup, so the idea of the two of them being humcancelling won't work.

thanks

[4Mal]

not really.

What I use is the Vintage Vibe JBX4 - you can get it in a 5 as well. The last step in the process is that the pickup is fully encased in copper shield. The leads are enclosed in a braided shield. The braid drains the foil shield and get's tied to ground. I've used them in bars with flickering neon signs with no extraneous noise. and they have that glorious single coil edge to them.

Pete will also do a split coil configuration for you by request. I have the Prototypes for those in my #1 J. They are by far my favorite J pickup yet and that bass is as close to silent as any bass I've ever played. The split coil adds a touch of 'oomph' in the low end. A slightly more solid sounding J - still very much inthe J single coil family though.

Due to the space limitations under the cover of a standard J housing, and the way that the split coils have to share the space between 2 of the pole pairs, those pickups have fewer winds so they are a little lower in output. You would want to run those as a pair as opposed to just replacing the bridge pickup.

[jamesie]

take a look at http://www.delano.de/home.html

they make different splitcoils for jazzbasses