i am looking at a bass that i found for sale, and it has Seymour Duncans with DIP switches. could anyone tell me what those switches do? any help appreciated, thanks!
They are EQ switches so you can change the voice of each pickup.
From the Seymour Duncan Forum:
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"We stopped making the switch pickups ("Active EQ") in the mid-'90s. We replaced them with the Pro-Active™ series. The little rocker switches on the Active EQ pickups change the sound. Switch #1 shifts the coil resonance. On a Jazz BassŪ neck pickup and a P BassŪ pickup, the resonance moves downward from 22 KHz to 6.4 KHz. On a Jazz Bass bridge pickup, it move downwards from 17 KHz to 4.9 KHz. The effect is to give a more focused sound with a harder attack. Switch #2 gives a broad band bass boost of 4 dB for the Jazz Bass neck and P Bass pickups, and 5 dB for the Jazz Bass bridge. The switches can be a very effective tool for changing the tonal "character" of your instrument. "
Last edited by testing1two : 03-26-2010 at 02:39 PM.
i would try it but, its from eBay . i REALLY want to get a fender jazz bass special with full black neck, and that's one of em, too bad the body wasn't black.
I have a set of Jazz pup's with the dip switches and I just set them to the sound most pleasing to my ear. I bought them new and don't know if I understood them exactly at the time. I just know they sounded great, good enough that I still use that bass and still love the sound.
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. i REALLY want to get a fender jazz bass special with full black neck, and that's one of em, too bad the body wasn't black.
