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Originally Posted by Kain  Thank you Kwesi for your PM.
I took my bass to my friend, who is a luthier. He measured the pickup magnets and found out that the B-string magnet was weaker than the other magnets. He was quite sure that it was the reason why the B-string is not so hot sounding as the others.
As I said earlier the B-magnet also looks different than the others, so I guess it's intentional. Weird anyhow, does anybody know reason for this? |
I don't know if "intentional" is the right word. You mean came from the factory that way. Clearly the pickup is defective. The real true story is that at the factory there is a large box of magnets. In that box was a weak defective one. Person building pickups just grabbed them out of the box and the weak one happened to get under your B string. My noiseless Jazz V deluxe has no such problem. And the "reason" for the problem would be lack of quality control that should have tested the pickup and bass for even response before it was sold.
The bottom line as far as I can see is a new pickup or at minimum a new magnet for the pickup if you can find one.
