Fender Jaguar. Help!

[Haans]

I am pretty sure it's the nature of the beast. I tried one of these about a year ago, and it was essentially identical in operation.

As I mentioned, I was recommended the Aguilar OBP-1. It operates on 18V though, so two 9V batteries are needed. I have no idea if anyone actually tried to fit it in the Jag.

 

[Orpheus55]

Whatever bridge you go with you will want to make sure it is adjustable for width. I replaced my Jaguar OE bridge with a Gotoh unit only to realize the mounting holes had been drilled a little off center. I had a large gap on the treble side and the low E string was almost at the edge of the fingerboard. Because I have since taken the Gotoh off and gone back to the original.

Also, the Gotoh has thicker saddle-barrels, allowingfor a lot less lower action; a great choice would be the quick-change Hipshot vintage bridge, which I have used very successfully on my other j-basses.

 

[superblues]

I am slightly disappointed in the stock pre, as the pots seem to work more like on/off switches than pots. Anyone tried them both?

cant say i've ever even played a jag bass, but when the pots funtion more like on-off switches, its' not generally the preamp's fault. The pots are at fault (so to speak). I'd venture a guess that the stock pots are linear taper when audio (ie logarithmic) taper pots should be used to achieve a smoother roll-off.

+1 for swapping the machine-screw saddles to a barrel saddle.

also, it is possible that the BAII might give you less adjustability than the stock bridge or a close-to-stock replacement. I owned a geddy lee Jazz with a BAII on which the saddles would bottom out before the string height was to my liking.