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Originally Posted by DirtPoorRobins  I'm getting a pair of alleva pickups to put in my fender custom classic, any ideas on a good preamp to throw in there that will complement the alleva pickups? Nordy is the first on that comes to mind, any others to think about? |
i'd have some concern over buying the pickups he's selling through his website vs a set that someone pulled out of a bass. i suspect what he's putting in his basses are wound different. a 4 string jazz set has specs of 6.5k and little over 2 henries for inductance. thats low wind and bright. super accurate as a vintage replacement. matched up with a pre would be pretty high tech sounding. i had a set of antiquity 2's wound to my specs of 8k for the neck and 8.5 for the bridge and matched up with an onboard coppolo pre and it was super modern sounding. those pickups sounded amazing passive though.
the 5 string set has similar specs with the bridge pickup in the 7k range. as a comparison, i traded many pms with a tb'r who had gutted is lg5. he had a 64 jazz and wanted it to sound more like that bass. he first tried pulling the pre but the bass passive with jimmy's pickups was too dark in comparison to the old jazz. he measured the resistance and they were around 10k he said. he ended up commissioning duncan to build him some antiquity 2's to but in his bass.
im only basing this off this guys info on how his pickups read, so if he was mistaken, im talking out of my butt in regards to the difference in pickups. but of all the coppolo's ive played id say that makes sense because the pickups dont sound as low wind as what he's selling on the site.
