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Lindy Fralin 5 String Standard Jazz Pickups
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Date of last review
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Tue September 18, 2007
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100% of reviewers
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$180.00
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9.5
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Description:
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These are direct Fender relplacement pickups. They use ALNICO V magnets and 42 gauge Heavy Formvar wire, they are all hand wound to vintage specifications. Wound to 8K neck and 8.5K bridge (can be custom wound hotter or cooler).
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ynnek991
Registered User
Registered: February 2007
Location: Hollywood, CA
Posts: 6
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Review Date: Sun February 4, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $180.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Truly phat, vintage tone with plenty of meat. Less noise and higher output than stock.
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Cons:
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May be a bit too dark for some tastes
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I bought a Fender Jazz V with the intention of making a frankenstein out of it and I knew the first things I wanted to change were the pickups. The tone of the stock pickups was just horrible to me, all brittle and no low end.
After reading about how great these were in Bass Player I decided to go for it with out listening to them first (bestbassgear.com said they'd take em back if I didn't like em.)
The first thing I noticed about these pickups is their stark contrast to the Bartolinis I have in my other bass, and in this case, that is OK with me (I love my barts but they can't do everything). These pickups sound like they have tubes built in to them, they are just so fat sounding, yet still precise, no boomy lows at all.
The soloed bridge pickup is all about jaco midrange.
With the neck soloed I could swear I was playing a P-bass.
The only thing that may not work for some people is that the high end is not "airy" in the way that you might think of modern high end pickups, much like the difference between solid state and tubes. These truly are vintage replicas and they do the job well.
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Twnty1inRF
Angular banjos sound good to me
Registered: September 2007
Location: DC Region
Posts: 286
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Review Date: Tue September 18, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $180.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Crisp articulate authentic vintage tone, outstanding bass response...
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Cons:
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Vintage tone may not fit if you want hifi tone.
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I have an old ('91) Sukop 5 string fretless (apparently built when Sukop was still in Boston as it is a bolt on neck, has the word Sukop on the headstock rather than the logo and I bought it in Boston in '91) that was originally fitted with 4 string EMG's (I guess after market 5 string pickups weren't available at the time- had lower response on the G and B strings). I purchased the bass because it was the first 5 string fretless I saw that had comfortable string spacing (most 5 strings at the time were trying to use 4 string necks).
I have replaced the pickups periodically searching for the vintage sound (I prefer passive pups to better hear the wood) and now that I have the Fralin's my quest is at an end. I can get every sound I want. I like them so much that I got a second set and dropped them in my KSD 705 fretted.
Lindy Fralin's...LOVE THEM, LOVE THEM, LOVE THEM!!!
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Virginia Bassists #5
Sukop 5 fretless, KSD 705 (w/Audere and Fralins), Fender MIA P, MIM 5 String J
TCE RH450, TCE RS210, Acme Low B-2, Markbass 102p
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