OPINIONS ON FATTEST SOUNDING BRIDGE PICKUP

Fender jazz bass pickup in a 60s jazz bass.

 

louder amp?

 

I'm just messing with ya!
I hear good things about the Dimarzio Model J for a "like a jazz but super fat" sound

 

Hmmm- the Bartolini MM style at the bridge position of my Lakland 55-94 sounds fatter than my old G&L L2000, but I usually boost the eq to arrive at this fatness.

 

also an active preamp like sadowsky that can give you a little bass boost

 

How about the Nordstrand signature pickups? Kinda like J-basses but they're bigger and sound bigger as well from what I've heard.

 

The Bartolini xxM45c quad coil pickup was one of the fattest and fullest sounding pickup I've ever heard. I had a Tobias Toby Pro Deluxe and stuck a pair of those bad boys in there and BOOM!!! Nothing but morbid obesity. I ran them with all coils on. Never tapped them, and the output was huge.

 

Looks like you play some ERBs, but one the fatter bridge pickups I've heard is a DarkStar in the bridge position... FWIW.

 

Closest thing I've ever heard to my L-2000 was the EMG 35DC.

 

For deeper and bigger my vote goes to Villex pickups

www.villex.com

 

For Jaco tone you don't need fat.
People too often confuse gear with a particular artist's sound.
Jaco used a vintage bass with vintage pickups. He would have been able to get the same sound with modern reproductions. Much of that transparent recorded sound he got was through some minimal electronic processing and EQing available at that time in the studio. The bulk of his sound came from his fingers - with fresh Rotosound round-wound strings - soloing the the bridge pickup.
This sound can come from a whole variety of basses and pickups - given the right player and amp settings etc.

 

This'll give you fat:





Old Vantage Double P defretted - don't know its model - maybe somebody here knows?

I bought it as a derelict.

 

G&L L1000 gets my vote.

 

ive got model J/s in my Jazz, and man does that Bridge pickup do fat!!!! i often either have it favoured or soloed!, but of course thru a 15" cab!

 

Maybe the delano J pickup with the large poles. It has huge punch and bottom on my jazz bass.

 

I know they're pretty rare but try a Twin Jazz pickup like the Roscoe Beck pickups or the bridge pickup of the old Am. Deluxe P basses, I had great luck with adding one to my SX P fretless. It has plenty of output so it works really well with the SD Quarter Pounder I installed in the neck position.

Mine is custom-made by a German luthier, though.

This has got to be the best name for a bass pickup, ever.