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Originally Posted by MEKer  hmmm---------maybe get the P version and rout in another set of P's?
What to do.....what to do? |
Personally I'm with the SX pups sound good camp. Their main problem, however, is that they give you single coil hum if you don't use neck and bridge pups together. So the bottom SX line for a Jazz clone is pickups won't be bad but will hum when singled. So how you like it will depend on how you feel about running both pickups together. Also copper electrical shielding usually is needed as well.
The problem with the P bass, is with the PJ as the P cancels hum but bridge J does not. Hence to make it work right you need a dual coil bridge pickup which may be more expense than you'd like. Straight P should be fine, no new P pickup needed. (Copper shielding, perhaps).
My view is not to worry about these fine points. The main advantage of an SX is that if you want to learn about something (in this case short scale) the best way is to get a cheap SX and live with it for a while. By the end you'll know if you want new pickups, a better bass, or just sell it and forget the idea.
Just consider the cost of cost of the SX "short scale lessons" which you can get most of back if you sell it later. By the time you are through you should know exactly "what the thing is" about short scale.
