I found a fair deal on a 2012 Modern Player Jazz, and i had been eying these basses for a while now. either that or a Blacktop Precision. In Theory these pickups were all i was looking for. So i always wanted to try them out. Plus, this is my first Fender bass. All my other basses are Squiers and SBMM, even if it's not a MIA, nor a MIM, it still feels like a step up in quality tbh! it plays really well.
As you can see in the picture, a couple of screws are missing because i already opened its guts and started to mess around with the electronics. i plan to deep clean it while there are no strings on it too. I will also install a new set of strings.
Fun facts:
The inner coils are exactly where the regular jazz pickups would be on a 60s jazz. which got me hyped up for a coil split option!
The neck pickup cavity matches the PU shape instead of being a generic square cavity like in most non-american Fender/Squier jazz basses. Custom pickup shape could be cool too!
Not so fun facts:
I wish i had taken pictures of what the wiring looked like when i opened it up, because it was somewhat disappointing at first. The pickups only had two wires going to the pots. it was ''hard-wired'' into a Series wiring. there was one tiny wire going from one coil to another on both PUs, making that series connection. but it was stuck in a big mess of what seemed to be hot glue? that was also holding the pickups in place. Bummer....
I couldn't find anywhere if the pickups were ceramic or alnico. now that i have opened them, they look similar to the squier pickups i have, which are all ceramics, so I guess that's what they're made of?
As you can see in the picture, a couple of screws are missing because i already opened its guts and started to mess around with the electronics. i plan to deep clean it while there are no strings on it too. I will also install a new set of strings.
Fun facts:
The inner coils are exactly where the regular jazz pickups would be on a 60s jazz. which got me hyped up for a coil split option!
The neck pickup cavity matches the PU shape instead of being a generic square cavity like in most non-american Fender/Squier jazz basses. Custom pickup shape could be cool too!
Not so fun facts:
I wish i had taken pictures of what the wiring looked like when i opened it up, because it was somewhat disappointing at first. The pickups only had two wires going to the pots. it was ''hard-wired'' into a Series wiring. there was one tiny wire going from one coil to another on both PUs, making that series connection. but it was stuck in a big mess of what seemed to be hot glue? that was also holding the pickups in place. Bummer....
I couldn't find anywhere if the pickups were ceramic or alnico. now that i have opened them, they look similar to the squier pickups i have, which are all ceramics, so I guess that's what they're made of?
