Weird Lakland 55-02 P'Up problem in my bass!

[Lorenzini]

The J pickup of my 55-02 has nearly died. This bass has the new LH-3's The MM position p'up is working 100%

About a week ago, the J pup was static, sort of distorting, very very similar to the sound an active bass makes when the battery is dying. Then the next day it was fine.

Today I fire it up, and the J pickup is about 50% volume on the G string, 25% on the D, and about 5% on the A, E and B strings, getting progressively worse.

So the J appears to be dying.

It does the same thing whether Active/Passive, same thing no matter which coil is selected...
And yes, I've changed the battery several times - to no avail.

Any suggestions?

[luknfur]

FWIW:

wire the pup straight to the jack so it skips the preamp entirely. If it still acts wierd then it's likely in the pup - but I've never heard such a pup failure description as yours.

[Webtroll]

warranty replacement? if the volume accross the strings is different you could have one of the internal coils shorting out. otherwise i dunno what would be causing it unless the pickup has separate leads for the coils and one of the leads is breaking off.

[Lorenzini]

Kirk replied to my email promptly and is sending me a new pickup at no extra charge, as it's under warranty!

Lakland customer service #1!