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Feel like I need a P/J fiver
- Thread starter LBS-bass
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That's what I have. Look at my avatar. The only think I want to change the pick guard to all black. I also wish it had black block inlays and binding.
A die hard P bass guy i know picked up an MIM deluxe j Fiver and he’s in lust. It’s active and i guess due to it being loaded with humbuckers it does the P thing really well. I tried it and it’s not weak in any way i could find.
Last time I looked the MIM Deluxe Jazz V, it was more expensive than the Sire P7 and it had 2 single coil J pickups. I don't think I've seed a Deluxe Jazz V with humbucker pickups.
According to Fender...
“Powered by a pair of growling Vintage Noiseless Jazz Bass bridge pickups, this instrument's bright, full sound easily cuts through a mix, ensuring the bass is heard clearly while retaining punch and low end authority”
I parted out an MIM Deluxe fiver a while back and it had humbuckers in it. The MIM standard fiver has single coils but i’ve never seen a Fender Deluxe j from any country without noiseless pickups unless the stockers had been replaced.
This Carvin is the best P/J fiver that I’ve ever owned, a ridiculously nice bass. Kiesel (still have problems saying that) will be able to build you one, although I suspect that it now will be above your grand mandate and may look like it was painted with psychedelic mescaline peacock barf.
There are a lot of good suggestions that fit within your price range. Look at used basses as well.
I was a J bass player until I started fiddling around on my friends Fender Tony Franklin. A few months later, I found a used Mike Lull that checked all the boxes for me. It is my “forever” bass!
I was a J bass player until I started fiddling around on my friends Fender Tony Franklin. A few months later, I found a used Mike Lull that checked all the boxes for me. It is my “forever” bass!
I have a Sadowsky Jazz 5 , StingRay5 and added a Sire P7 5 last year. Got an Alder/Rosewood , it fills that void in-between the other 2 basses , it was a cheap enough and it plays and sounds very good. Now that I'm certain I need to keep a PJ in the arsenal I will move to a Sadowsky PJ as the keeper but for under 1000.00 the Sire is a great choice
I often don't bother since he has more money in drums than I do in bass gear, but I will mostly likely have a discussion with my better half and if we agree I will end up with one of these.
I have a used option, but I may decide to buy this new, since it's so inexpensive to begin with (relatively speaking of course) and I can buy it on credit. I'm kind of taken with this translucent white color, which adds $100 for the ash body, but oh well, if I'm dropping money I should be totally happy, right?
A “noiseless” single coil pickup and a humbucker are two different pickups.
IMO a music man style pickup in the bridge is more useful than a single coil when paired with a P pickup, and tends to stand alone better. I'd go with one of the Reverend Mercalli 5 if I were in your shoes. If I were serious about a J pickup at the bridge, I'd go with a Yamaha BB. They do a better job of matching the J pickup output to the P than most maker. I also tend to think that Fender style basses look a bit off as 5 stringers.
I'm not married to that J pickup; I really want the P split coil sound and what's at the bridge is probably optional, though I am very fond of my two jazz basses and am quite happy to dig gnarly tone out of the bridge pickup when it suits me. I just sold a MusicMan Caprice which is a P/J with humbuckers because I couldn't get what I wanted from them. The niche for this new bass will primarily be Country/New Country style cover material, which is why I want 5 strings with a P pickup. The rest is negotiable as far as I'm concerned.
Yamaha BB735....BB435 if just want passive. BB425x is good too! I had a BB1000MA (4 string though) at one point but sold to go short scale and now looking to go back to long scale! Go figure!
I really like the feature-set of this bass. The reverse P pickup is cool and helps differentiate this model from otherwise similar instruments from other manufacturers. I just don't like either of the available finishes.
you sure about that? I’ve always heard Fender Noiseless j pickups in the Deluxe active basses were stacked humbuckers. TBH i’ve never heard of a “noiseless” single coil.
Fender noiseless (and similar designs from other manufacturers) do buck hum in a literal sense, but they're in a different category to "humbuckers" because they are designed to sound like traditional single coil pickups, whereas a traditional "humbucker" has a different tone.
I don't pretend to understand the fine details of the physics involved, but some noise cancelling pickups make use of a dummy coil, which as I understand it means the signal that you actually want is generated from the non-dummy coil in the setup, whereas a traditional humbucker is generating signal from both coils.
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