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12-27-2006, 06:25 AM
| | Wraggotry in Motion | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Perth, Australia | | | How do CIJ pickups stack up to MIA pickups?
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Any opinions? Difference in sound, quality, etc. etc.? |
12-27-2006, 06:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tipperary, Ireland | | A lot of them use USA pickups, my 62 Jazz RI has USA vintage pickups, so they're pretty equal  |
12-27-2006, 06:42 AM
| | Wraggotry in Motion | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Perth, Australia | | | I realise this - I've come across quite a few that use USA pickups, and also quite a few that use Jap pickups - of course I'd rather buy a bass off eBay with USA pickups, but I'm interested to hear how people think they compare to the Jap pickups. |
12-27-2006, 06:43 AM
| | Goin out West | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Arlington, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor J  A lot of them use USA pickups, my 62 Jazz RI has USA vintage pickups, so they're pretty equal | Stole the words right outta my mouth.
As for the actual Japanese-made pickups, I figure they'd be pretty much the same as standard MIA pups, maybe very slightly worse or better.
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12-27-2006, 06:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tipperary, Ireland | | | Well my old Japanese ESP 400 series Jazz still has the stock Japanese pickups 20 years later which says a lot for someone like me who likes to mess about with instruments. I don't think one can be as general to say all Japanese pickups are great/terrible, on the same way it would be naieve to say all American pickups are great/terrible; different instruments have different models of pickups, what particular instruments are you looking at, perhaps someone here already has one and can speak with authority. |
12-27-2006, 06:51 AM
| | Wraggotry in Motion | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Perth, Australia | | I've been looking at the 62-RI. Didn't mean to sound rude in that last post, by the way. I realise it could have come off that way  |
12-27-2006, 08:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Wisconsin | | | I have a '87 MIJ P bass that has the stock pup's that are not going anywhere. They have the same woody vintage type of tone reissue '62 pup's put out in another P bass I once owned.
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12-27-2006, 09:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Connecticut | | buy lindy fralins, you will be much happier 
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