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Originally Posted by tranceFusion  What do you guys use or find to be the best pickup to go with the audere preamp? |
I'm going to guess from you mentioning the JZ3 preamp which is a replacement for a Jazz bass plate that you're asking about the Nordstrand Jazz shape pickups. If your bass is routed for soapbar pickups, then TheBigO has some great suggestions.
For a pickup in a jazz casing, you have 3 choices from Nordstrand.
NJ4 - Single coil - "Vintage Jazz bass +"
NJ4SV - Split-coil humbucker - A humbucker, but as close in tone to the single coil NJ4 as possible.
NJ4SE - Split-coil humbucker - Sometimes referred to as more "modern" or "thicker" toned than the NJ4SV.
Resources:
Bass Player Magazine review of all three pickups SMASH's review of the NJ4 SMASH's review of the NJ4SE My Experience:
My bass has a set of the NJ4SVs and the Audere 3ZB preamp, which is pretty much the JZ3 without the control plate.
My summary:
WOW!
Smash's review of the NJ4s is pretty much spot-on with regards to the NJ4SVs, except to my ear these pickups don't seem to have a "pronounced bottom" as Smash noted of the NJ4s. They're even, balanced across the tonal spectrum, and the tone is gorgeous. They work extremely well with the Audere preamp. The Z-mode controls provide an astounding amount of versatility.
