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12-01-2010, 05:25 PM
| | | | I know there is probably a hundred threads about Jazz Pickups
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but i need straight answers.
i want vintage, thumpy, low, deep, and smooth sounding replacement pickups for a jazz bass. hopefully with little to no buzz.
and all for under 150.
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12-01-2010, 05:54 PM
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12-01-2010, 06:18 PM
| | | | just more low end than the standard MIM jazz
i was thinking between SD antiquity II's and Fender Custom Shop 60's
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12-01-2010, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by ben12390 i want vintage, thumpy, low, deep, and smooth sounding replacement pickups for a jazz bass. hopefully with little to no buzz. | What you want is a P bass. Jazz basses are bright, even the vintage ones. All those old recordings are P basses.
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12-01-2010, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ben12390 i want vintage, thumpy, low, deep, and smooth sounding replacement pickups for a jazz bass. hopefully with little to no buzz. | Quote:
Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie What you want is a P bass. Jazz basses are bright, even the vintage ones. All those old recordings are P basses. | YEah, I though the same!
Anyway, best vintage J PU for the price: SD SJB1, best for any price Nords NJ4 or Lollar J Set.
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12-01-2010, 09:46 PM
| | | | ive got a p. but i want a growlier J, but running them in parallel so i can get a decent slap tone
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12-01-2010, 09:49 PM
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12-01-2010, 10:01 PM
| | | | I just put a set of Dimarzio Ultra Jazz 149s on my mim jbass. They are dead quiet and they seem to get a lot more of a deep, p bass type sound than the stock pups. Plus they were fairly inexpensive. Im pretty happy with em. Just a warning though, some mim fender jbasses have two pups that are the same size. The Dimarzio Ultra Jazz 149s are 2 different sizes so you might have to do a small bit of modding to make em fit. If you want to avoid that, order each pup separately and get 2 neck pickups. |
12-02-2010, 07:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Philadelphia | | | Maybe try the noiseless DiMarzio Area J, which are designed to replicate vintage single coils. This way, you can roll off the bridge pickup for a deeper tone, without the hum. The Ultra Jazz, as I understand it, is not vintage sounding at all, but will have more powerful lows than the Area J and might be worth a try.
You might also like Fender's SCN, which were the stock pickups in the old American Deluxe line. They lack the sparkly high end of vintage single coils, but in a band mix they provide classic J-bass tone, and have solid lows IMO. I've liked them whenever I've tried or heard them.
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12-02-2010, 03:28 PM
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What you want is a P bass. Jazz basses are bright, even the vintage ones. All those old recordings are P basses.
| Not all.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EegRh8Z4H-o |
12-03-2010, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by P-punk | I could be wrong but, it sounds like a Ric on that link.
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12-03-2010, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by "Q" I could be wrong but, it sounds like a Ric on that link. | That's Joe Osborn playing a Jazz. He only used the neck pickup and played with a pick through an open back guitar combo (A Fender Concert). It does have that hollow Rick-ish tone, and certainly isn't as thick as a P bass.
Still, stick some round wounds on it and it would be bright.
But as I have said, most people played P basses back then.
"Joe Osborn's instrument throughout most of his recording career was a 1960 Fender "stack-knob" Jazz Bass, which was given to him by Fender just prior to touring in Australia with Nelson.
Osborn said he was initially disappointed that Fender hadn't sent a Precision model, which he had been using. But he said he grew to like the Jazz Bass because the narrower neck made it easier for his short fingers."
Plus he was a guitarist. 
As a comparison, here's Carol Kaye, also playing through a guitar amp and using a pick, but with a P bass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTcmahEjiY
That's what I would call "vintage, thumpy, low, deep, and smooth sounding" and not the Osborn tone, which does sound a lot brighter and like a Rick.
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12-03-2010, 10:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | | Bill Lawrence has a J thats great sounding and meets the OP's price constraint.
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12-03-2010, 11:09 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: dallas, tx | | | Okay, here's your solution!!!
What I did when my neck pup went out on my '72 jazz, I had Tom at Lindy Fralins do a rewire to '60s specs on both. Problem solved!!! Check and Mate!!!
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12-03-2010, 01:18 PM
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