Pickups to go with Cirrus preamp?

[klocwerk]

Hey all.
So I'm putting together a project bass (4 string fretted) for which I scored a preamp pulled from a Peavey Cirrus.
Now I need to find some pickups to drop in there.

Sound:
- No freakin hum. I'll be shielding the bass like crazy, but I've never found single-coils that I could live with, so unless you know of some very quiet single-coils it'll have to be humbuckers.
- Jazz-like rather than P-like.

The body is currently routed for standard jazz p'ups, so I either need something that'll fit those routes, or something that I can make larger routes for. (Big soapbars or something else that'll cover the Jazz footprint and not leave routing gaps.)

Suggestions?

[BassGod]

All I can say on the noise thing, is that I had a bass with EMGs once, and they were dead silent. No hum whatsoever. Needless to say, I was impressed with their studio performance.

My two.

Graeme

[luknfur]

To me would be no brainer under those guidelines. There are more humbucking J's available (more tone options) than ANY soap shape you might route for. Personally I would not only skip the shielding like crazy I would skip the shielding altogether. If that PV pre is one of those huge PCB fixed positioned pot pre's, I'd ditch it and go with something conventional.

EMG J actives and a simple EMG BTC would meet your criteria.

Shielding, routing for soaps, and the PV pre (one described) would be a nightmare project in my book - more things to go wrong than right and costing a lot more time, energy, headache, and coin.

That's my take anyway.

[klocwerk]

I need to route the control cavity either way, so routing for the Cirrus-pre PCB would be a piece of cake. So that's a non-issue.
(plus I already have it, and would rather not buy another pre to replace it. this is a budgeted project. )

Shielding isn't a problem. Conductive paint for-the-win!

EMG J's is a possibility, I'll have to look into them.
*wanders off to the Jazz p'up shootout thread*

[luknfur]

Originally Posted by klocwerk

I need to route the control cavity either way, so routing for the Cirrus-pre PCB would be a piece of cake. So that's a non-issue.
(plus I already have it, and would rather not buy another pre to replace it. this is a budgeted project. )

Shielding isn't a problem. Conductive paint for-the-win!

EMG J's is a possibility, I'll have to look into them.
*wanders off to the Jazz p'up shootout thread*

Paint Shield is not a problem. I haven't used it but I've copper shielded a few basses and won't do that again.

I also routed several basses and it's a lot easier to chop one up than get it right - no margin for error.

Used BTC's typically have gone for about $50 on ebay, EMG J's used about $75.

Regardless, hope you end up where you want to go and enjoy getting there.

[klocwerk]

Originally Posted by luknfur

Regardless, hope you end up where you want to go and enjoy getting there.

Oh, I'm not worried about the enjoyment part. I love me some tinkering in the basement.