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"J" pickups discussion and comparisons - PART II

#602
American Standard jazz V.....love the original pickups 2002 and 2004

but just put in a newly acquired set of Xotic jazz 5 pickups....and love the tone....even better than my Fralins ...which replaced the Nordstrand singles which I did not like

more output ..richer/thicker tone but still with all the growl and highs of the original Fenders
 
#603
Are all these P&J bass pickups plus their clones made to the same dimensions ? I bought my bass used and the bridge pickup pole pieces do not align with the strings between the two poles. It gets farther out of position with each string, showing the pole spacing is longer than the string spacing is.
The split P type neck pickups align with one offset some.

This bass was originally sold with the solid black pups, no pole pieces showing. Maybe because it has an odd string spacing ? It is a Lyon LB-40 Prowler.
And the ones in it may need wax filling. They make a hollow sick thunk if I tap them with a fingernail, not solid and dead.
 
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#605
eastcoasteddie said:
How about the SD “weather report” pickups?
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That demo sounds great but it's hard to get a real feel for the different tones the pickups are capable of when heard in an effected mix like that. I'm going try and find a different demo on YouTube for more nuance. A very interesting pickup though. I'm really lost in terms of finding replacement pickups for my Highway One Jazz bass.
 
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Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati said:
Ok how do you like them when compared to the Lollars?
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I don't own that bass anymore. The Apollos were fuller, fatter sounding. Still had a little bit of the traditional single coil Jazz bass tone, just no where near like the Lollars had. But much prefer them to the Lollars. It's sort of apples to oranges. I'm not of much help as my taste in basses has changed a bit these days. I've found i'm not a Jazz bass person.
 
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JJR58 said:
I don't own that bass anymore. The Apollos were fuller, fatter sounding. Still had a little bit of the traditional single coil Jazz bass tone, just no where near like the Lollars had. But much prefer them to the Lollars. It's sort of apples to oranges. I'm not of much help as my taste in basses has changed a bit these days. I've found i'm not a Jazz bass person.
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You know in all fairness to the historical facts regarding Seymour Duncan and Jaco Pastorius ; I mean, if you really listen to Jaco, he had a huge, fat, massive tone going on with that bridge pickup-favoured sound. Anyone who thinks it was all tinny mid-range needs to listen to some of the recordings of Jaco played through a big sound system: That bass tone is massive....o_O :smug:
 
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Pbassmanca said:
You know in all fairness to the historical facts regarding Seymour Duncan and Jaco Pastorius ; I mean, if you really listen to Jaco, he had a huge, fat, massive tone going on with that bridge pickup-favoured sound. Anyone who thinks it was all tinny mid-range needs to listen to some of the recordings of Jaco played through a big sound system: That bass tone is massive....o_O :smug:
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It’s ... monstruous :woot::bored::confused:o_O:dead:
 
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JJR58 said:
I don't own that bass anymore. The Apollos were fuller, fatter sounding. Still had a little bit of the traditional single coil Jazz bass tone, just no where near like the Lollars had. But much prefer them to the Lollars. It's sort of apples to oranges. I'm not of much help as my taste in basses has changed a bit these days. I've found i'm not a Jazz bass person.
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Thanks for your explanations :thumbsup:
 
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