Recent content by jbailes

Are they pretty responsive to harmonics?

Ya know, I have to admit I probably didn't give the QPs a very fair shake. I was so 'shell-shocked" at how good the nordys were that the nordys were the standard by which I held the QPs to. And that's a mistake. Completely different animals. But given the hum, I would have traded them out...

It's been my experience that overdrive/distortion tends to amplify the 60 cycle hum on single coils. That's not to say that they wouldn't work well with effects. Rojo simply asked how quiet they were, and I told him.

Ya know I'm just about sold on these, but I do have one question. How responsive are they to playing harmonics?

Nice slap tone, bud. DRs are the only string I'll buy. Had a set of hi beams on a warwick thumb (before I got rid of it) and was impressed with those strings. I got fat beams on one jazz, sunbeams on another jazz, and nickel plated low riders on yet another jazz.

They're not quiet at all, bud. Even on the cleanest setting. So forget about overdrive or distortion, that is, if you use that. I can't tell you about DC, but that info might be on the tone chart at the seymour duncan website.

I've heard nothing but compliments on the antiquity II's. I just can't deal with the hum. I just wish the nordys weren't so costly. An eventual mod will be an OBP-3, and I understand that Nordys work just as well with it as the aggys. I'm so torn between the two that it may just come down to a...

I'm pretty interested in these split coil aggy's as well. Given the description from the aggy rep, they seem to be quite similar to the Nordstrand nj4se's that I put into an MIM j bass a while back. Outstanding pickups that ooze beautiful jazz tone and can certainly growl. I recently picked up...

Well, over the weekend, I bought a pair of Ultra Js and put them in my new Jazz 24. No noise at all, but I gotta say, tonewise, they're not really what I'm looking for. Loads of power and the neck pickup sounds pretty decent, but the bridge pickup almost sounds "brittle" due to the scooped eq...

I agree that it's a difficult pedal for live "on the fly" use, but as far as what's out there right now in terms of sound quality, I don't think the B3 can be beat. If the chassis had been formatted more like the B2.9 or the Boss GT10B, I think that would have solved these issues. Although it...

I picked up a set of ultras and had them installed in my active fender jazz 24 today. Still has the stock preamp, though. They are indeed some beefcake pickups. I've got nordstrands in another passive jazz, and these ultras are quite different.

Nice thread, here. I just a new condition Fender Jazz 24, and the stock SD quarter pounders just aren't doing it for me. The bass is active with treble, bass, mid, and a mid switch, which eventually, I'm gonna replace with an AG OBP-3. What pickups would work well with this? Based on youtube...

I don't have experience with both, but I do have a set of SEs in an MIM Jazz. You can definitely hear a low-mid bump and smooth highs. In my estimation, I couldn't have made a better choice for that bass.

:eek:Wow dude!

Oh man, is that wine red one a sweetie!