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03-28-2007, 01:09 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | | I won some Jazz Quarter Pounds on eBay!
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Got the neck & bridge set for $92, not too shabby. I'm going to drop them in to my MIM Jazz, so hopefully I can get the sound I am looking for. Anyone else use these pups? 
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03-28-2007, 03:21 PM
| | Son, I am disappoint. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gig Harbor, Washington | | | Im actually curious on these because i want to put some in my MIA Jazz bass
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03-28-2007, 03:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Raleigh, NC | | | Not sure what sound you're looking for, but .... I had a MIM Jazz that was my primary bass for about 9 years. Dropped the QPs in after a couple weeks & loved 'em. Great tone that made up for everything the stocks pups were missing (IMHO) The only issue I ran into was the bridge pup. In my MIM, both pups were the same length. The bridge QP was longer, like the MIA Jazzes. It fit fine in the bridge position, but I had to trim off the ends of the cover. Good Luck!! |
03-28-2007, 04:47 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | | I have one of the newer MIMs where the pups are the same size so I should be fine... I will bump this later when they actually come.
I am hoping for a more modern tone from my bass, and I hear the QPs have these in spades.
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03-28-2007, 05:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: So Cal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSnake2012  I am hoping for a more modern tone from my bass, and I hear the QPs have these in spades. | My experience with the QP's in my Jazz was big clean full-range tone. Put the stockers to shame. |
03-28-2007, 06:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Wisconsin | | | Anyone know how the QP's compare to the EMG's? This is making me want to put some in my MIM Jazz too.
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03-28-2007, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Winnipeg, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSnake2012 Anyone else use these pups? | Ohhh yeeaaah! I dropped a set of QP's in my MIM Jazz last year and WOW! I was hooked! I just dropped a second set of them into my American Deluxe Jazz last week. I absolutely love them.
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03-28-2007, 08:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: ottawa, ontario, canada | | | you PAID foir them ergo you bought them , please read a book
or two.
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03-28-2007, 09:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ibnzneksrul My experience with the QP's in my Jazz was big clean full-range tone. Put the stockers to shame. | Yeap! |
03-29-2007, 06:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Wynne, Arkansas | | I put in a set of the QP's in my MIM P/J bass, and OH MY GAWD. What a difference. This was in the neck position, which is a split-coil config. I will be installing an SJB-3 QP in the bridge position tomorrow. This is gonna be very interresting to hear what it does to my sound. 
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03-30-2007, 09:59 PM
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Endorsing Artist: DR Strings, SMS, D-TAR | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Boulder, CO | | | In 1981 I was in San Francisco and passed by a music store that had an Alembic in the window. I wanted to check it out and went in and the salesguy said I could check it out, but if I wanted to play a real bass, I should try his '62 Jazz. Naturally I agreed. He said the pickups were made by his friend Seymour Duncan and they were the prototypes for the quarter pounder. Insanely great bass and great pickups. I keep waiting for a set that will fit into my Lakland JO5.
Edwin
PS The salesman was Bobby Vega. I learned a huge amount from just watching him play that day. He still plays that bass.
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03-30-2007, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson,AZ | | | Congrats, you will like them.
I have a PJ set and I'm putting another PJ set in the bass I'm building now, except that the bridge pup will be an Hot Stack.
Can't wait to try out that combo!
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04-03-2007, 06:26 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | My friend helped me put these pickups in... I am happy with them, they are much better than the stock MIM set. The neck pickup is way better, but I'm not completely happy with the bridge. It's not very defined and sounds burpy or whatever. I found a pretty good blend of the two pickups and they sound good together. I probably won't be soloing the bridge unless I can find a way to make it sound better.  Maybe I have to raise/lower the height? Thanks!
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04-03-2007, 06:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: So Cal | | | That doesn't sound right.
How close to the strings is the bridge pickup? |
04-03-2007, 06:34 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | | A little bit more than 1/4", measuring from the top of the pickup to the string. I have my action set very low.
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04-03-2007, 06:44 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | I'm attaching a sound clip of me playing James Brown's "I Feel Good" on my jazz just to give you an idea what it sounds like. The first part of the clip is with the neck wide open, bridge slightly rolled back, tone fully open. Second part of the clip is the neck turned down completely, bridge fully open and the tone fully open. The bridge sounds tinny and undefined. 
Excuse the mediocre bass playing  http://www.monkeypals.com/SuperSnake.../ifeelgood.mp3
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04-03-2007, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: So Cal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSnake2012 A little bit more than 1/4", measuring from the top of the pickup to the string. I have my action set very low. | I would try raising the pickup. |
04-03-2007, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Springfield, il | | | Sounds like a jazz bass with SDs.
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04-03-2007, 06:59 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | I should have tried that first... I raised both the pickups and they sound way better now. Amazing.
They sound like I hoped they did now. The bass is a lot louder too 
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04-03-2007, 07:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: So Cal | | There is a 'sweet spot' for pickup height, it might take a few adjustments to dial it in but it's worth the effort for the tone you'll get.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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