Chinese eBay output jacks vs Switchcraft?

[Axstar]

Buy a new keyboard, then a new switch. I need the Rosetta Stone to decipher that gibberish. Ever heard of proof-reading?

 

[thehindteet]

i build a lot of stuff with 1/4" jacks and I have a operating method that you might find useful.

If I was buying a single jack, and I relied heavily on whatever I was putting it into, and I had never bought any jacks before and it was a big deal for me to replace it, I'd buy the brand that people trust the most.

I've bought all kinds of jacks from taiwan. Some of them are really good, as good or better than the switchcraft ones. The ones that are junk usually didn't cost very much. So I treat these exploratory purchases as research into lower cost options. If I find a supplier that has a really good, lower cost option, once I trust them, I'll use them. You also have to trust that the second order will be as good as the first, etc.

You may not find a good low cost alternative the first time, but that doesn't mean all low cost options are junk. It just means that instead of buying one low cost jack, you need to buy from maybe 3 or 4 suppliers and figure out which ones of those are good. The problem is that when you're ordering one at a time, the prices are not good. So it usually winds up being cheaper, if you're just buying one, to buy the one known-good one. You are essentially letting the importer eat the cost of finding the good manufacturer, instead of doing it yourself. Keeping that in mind makes it seem less like being ripped off when you pay for a premium brand (even though I'm much happier buying the no-name stuff from vendors I trust )

 

[JazzCrazy]

Regarding the apparent reason for the jack change, step 1 is to understand what’s causing your hum. Randomly swapping out hardware is a crapshoot, and waste of your time and money.

Regarding your strongly-held opinions of single coils versus humbuckers, there is an entire world of pickups out there. We have humbuckers that sound like single coils, and single coils that sound like humbuckers. Not to mention split coils, sidewinders, multi-coils, and low-impedance transformer-stepped pickups. Things are most assuredly not black and white, and generalizations will deprive you of some interesting alternatives.

Regarding your snarkiness towards other forum members who are taking their time to try and help you, it’s immature and discourteous. And against forum rules.

Point 1 there's nothing "random" about wiping the slate clean & replacing everything & start over again.

Point 2 I've tried some of those alternatives such as side by side split coil Bartolini's & they were not convincing,.

Lastly, I regret snapping at that TBF user in the way I did. However, I have owned & gigged wih enough basses to know that when you play with just one single coil pickup, bridge or neck, they hum just a little more than their humbucker counterparts. But not too much for me! What I've experienced with this particular bass is a hum audible enough that nightclub patrons sometimes approach me & ask, "what's wrong with your bass?" That problem is not the " nature of the proverbial beast" regarding single coils. I did respectful ask that TBF users not challenge my perdonal prefersncs for single cojl pickips in the context of my inquiry about installing new output jacks iwithin the context of gutting out all the existing electronics, replacing them to fix a naghing ground hum that wasn't there to begin with.

Even your points about "alternatives to single coils" are cimpletely unecessarry. Why? Would you make that recommendation to Marcus Miller?

 

[JazzCrazy]

Bottom line. If any bass has a prominent hum it's not natural or acceptable. You can't attribute it to single coil pickups and say, "it's the nature of the beast" & can only be fixed by going to a humbucker. If that were true single coil basses would be unmarketable.

 

[Axstar]

Maybe bass isn't the right instrument for you.

 

[twinjet]

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