Am Jazz Dlx N3 Pickups

Hey Bassists,

after reading for a while now i decided to start a thread myself.

I have a beautiful ´12 American Jazz Bass Deluxe which i love, but have a problem with the N3 noiseless pickups.
During rehearsal i noticed that the E-String is a little louder than the other strings and a little clanky (no fret buzz). I also hear this in our recordings (very low budget).
I adjusted the pickup height and lowered it at the E-String side and it was getting a little better, but i coudn´t get an equably sound for all strings. When lowering the pickup at the E-String side the A-string gets too quiet.
I heared of similar problems (small fretboard radius and no stagged pole pieces), but never had it myself with other basses and wonder that this is a problem with a new top of the line bass.
Has anybody have a similar problem with the N3 pickups? Any ideas what i can do other than swap pickups?

Sorry for my bad english

 

Thanks for the reply.
Has anyone made similar experiences with unequal loudness of the strings with the N3 Pickups?

 

unfortunately no

 

It is on both pu but stronger on the Neck pu.

nicopiano, thanks for the advise. I will have a look in the Fender setup guide and adjust the pickup height again.
Do you think changing strings and adjusting the neck did helped with the described problem?

 

I changed strings several times and this didn´t helped. I also did several setup changes, but this did´t help either.
I setup my basses to my preferences and since the clanky sound of the E-String is not caused by fretbuzz i think this is not a setup problem. The only thing i can imagine that might help with the problem in regards of the setup is to set all strings to the same height, but this is very uncomfortable as you can imagine and i don´t think that fender designed a bass that needs a setup like this to sound good.

Can this be a problem with the electronics? Disfunctional Pickup, bad wiring or anything like this? I am not very familiar with the electronic of guitars and am not able to figure out what might cause a problem like this.

Thanks for help!