Thanks for responding. Basically looking for more of a bottom end / bass sound. I know it's a jazz bass - hindsight. I had an Ibanez ATK300 a long time ago, that had ceramic pick-ups, and loved it. Maybe it's foolish to think my Fender would sound like the Ibanez... Or maybe I just upgrade to Fender's noisless jazz bass pick-ups. I was really just wondering if anyone had installed ceramics and reccomended a brand.
Given the differences in engineering between a triple-rail humbucker and two Jazz pickups, finding a match might be a tall order. But then, there are so many varieties of J-pups out there, it might not be impossible.
What I'd recommend is to check out a bunch of demos via YouTube and start zeroing-in on what style of pickup
(single-coil, split-coil, stacked-coil, noiseless, alnico, ceramic, etc...) makes your ears happy, then dive into some research in the Pickups section.
One thing for sure, if you just ask for opinions on this-or-that pickup, you will likely get a wide range of perspectives.
"Sound" is very subjective. For example, some people love the clarity of EMG pickups, while others find them to be a bit to
"sterile" sounding. Others may say
<insert pickup name/model> sounds great in a band setting, but only so-so when playing alone...or vice-a-versa even. It's all relative.
Putting aside all that philosophizing for a moment, if you want to avoid the 60-cycle hum inherent in standard, single-coil pups, then yeah...some kind of noiseless/humbucking pickup set would bring you that much closer to your target sound. Another possibility would be installing a wiring harness that can switch between series and parallel modes. Putting a Jazz bass into series-mode, making both pickups act as one, big pickup, really ups the presence and gives it a bit more kick.
