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pickup replacement to make my jazz sounds like modern spector

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littlewayne0

Dec 11, 2008
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#1
Hi there

My bass is Fender jb75-us, japanese 75reissue with american pick ups(passive). the bass sounds great but i want some more beef and tone out of it (something sounds like spector tone idealy)

I have read the mega thread and think Im going with
dimarzio dp123 model j

I want some second opinion, no emg series please.
buying soon last decision making.


BTW does marcus miller uses shadowsky pickups aswell?
I always wonder what he uses
 
#2
Wassup bro? I have an original '74 Jazz(passive).A few years ago,my pickups went bad(old age) and my tech replaced them with Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound J pickups.They were noticeably louder and a lil punchier and I never added a preamp.Of course if you're trying to get a Spector type sound,you might need to look at adding a preamp or maybe a stompbox pre.

Marcus' '77 jazz bass has Fender pickups but the preamp was modified by Sadowsky.
 
#4
i dont know too much about preamp but I dont know if thats what i want to get invovled with..

It seems pretty pricy and hard to install.
(Im doing this myself..changing pickup is a challange already onboard preamp&eletronic is probably out of my league.)

I would look into preamps and learn more about it
but any recomandation on preamps will help :)
 
#5
I would suggest you purchase an outboard(stombox) preamp then...that way,you won't have to worry about installation and you get basically the same sound. Aguilar and Sadowsky make good ones...there are tons more but those are the ones I've heard and liked.

Good luck with your quest!
 
#7
Yeah cause the Spector has EMG's so it would be hard to get that sound without using EMG's.You can try getting custom pickups and adding a P pickup to get that Spector P/J sound.

Again...GOOD LUCK!!! Hope it works out for you!!!

Peace

Jackie
 
#11
Layout and construction of Spectors is way different. You can get close but it won't be exact. Pre amp is also a huge part of the Spector tone though. If your bent on staying passive I would recommend EMG's passive pickups. They have a model or two of passive. Thats probably going to be your best bet. I have a set of Dimarzio Model J's in my Ibanez and can cop a near Spector tone but it requires a lot of knob turning on my 3 band preamp. Honestly EMG uses a solder free setup, you be best served by getting a set of EMG's and there 2 band stacked preamp. I know you said no EMG but its really the only option for "Spector tone" but the DiMarzio pups will give you more heft, they are very rich in mids and lows.
 

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