Replacement pickups for MIM Jazz?

[cflat]

For the kind of music you play I would recommend you try the Dimarzio J's...they sound great (altho not single coily)..have balls and snap (too much for some players), and really cut through a loud rock band no problem.

 

[The Lemon]

Wanna try that again?

How much does anyone wanna bet that 'fat jonny' has by now been married and maybe divorced and sold all his gear to pay the alimony and is living under a bridge in LA and stands on a corner spit shining the windshields on cars when they stop for a red light?

This was (what?) almost eleven years ago?

Most of the users ITT haven't been active in 8-10 years, and the BP Jazz shootout link is dead (I really wish they'd put that back up)

 

[Rion]

I don't think You can do this, but i replaced my pickups with two rickenbacker pickups
(carved out to fit). They give a nice bottom end and good, crunchy gain.

 

[madjazzbass]

I heard that you might have to get a new pickguard if you replace the neck pickup in the MIM Jazz Basses, and possible make the area bigger. I don't have one, but that's what I heard. Good Luck!

That's true, I replaced the pickups in my MIM JBass and I had to bore out the area for the neck pickup to fit. (I used a file) Haaaaaaa!!!

 

[BluesdawgBeck]

SD Basslines will do just fine, no mods, just a couple wires and way better tone. I also replaced my bridge with USA Jazz Bass Bridge with vintage inserts to keep the strings in place. Blues N

 

[Frenchy-Lefty]

SD Basslines will do just fine, no mods, just a couple wires and way better tone. I also replaced my bridge with USA Jazz Bass Bridge with vintage inserts to keep the strings in place. Blues N

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[MonsterRain]

5 years later and I want to know how Fat Jonny is doing.

 

[Drummerboy2]

Dimarzio Ultra Jazz !!!! big bottom and crunchy top

or maybe EMG jazzbass set, the custom shop made a special jazzbass pickups with the same size so they can fit to MIM jazzbass without modification
anyway, I use EMG on my MIM jazzbass, and it's really2 COOL !?!?!?!

I had some EMG's pickups and preamps put in my MIM Jazz bass around this time and have been very happy with the sound of it. I always get compliments on how nice the bass sounds and cuts through. People are surprise when they find out its a MIM Jazz bass.

 

[Rsteady]

Posted in 2000! This is the thread that refuses to die! It is the Terminator of all threads. I'll subscribe to this thread so that I can revive it myself in 10 years provided that this world has not been destroyed by a zombie thread apocalypse by then.

The apocalypse came. And I'm still trying to figure out MY 1996 mim jazz stock pickups!