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Giving up on my Jazz bass

No, having the strings a bit off their ideal center isn't going to produce any buzz.

Did reversing the wires to the neck pickup work?

Hey

It took a couple days of putting it off but I flipped the wires of the new Fralin today and the thing works like a charm! Also I ordered some sheilding tape to quiet the thing down a bit.

Now I just got to figure out the weird dead spot that I get while playing a B on the A string...
Everything else is just fine but that spot is in-operable...
It just rattles when I play it

Oh how I wish things just worked how their spose to
 
Dead spots on a Fender neck, nooo....:)

Is it a dead spot or fret buzz? You stated it was a dead spot, then contradicted yourself by stating it rattles.

It's a fretless.
So no fretbuzz here
and it does rattle to the point where the note is dead.
Maybe my termenology isn't quite on but I think you know what I mean...

anyway

I put the copper sheilding tape in the other day and besides giving myself the gnarliest papercut ever, it worked really great! I can't believe the difference. I'm gunna put some in my Warwick ASAP