SX with AERO pickups

[IBWT]

I bought a SX SJB 62 CT bass from Rondo two years ago. Here in Spain SX is still a fairly unknown brand.

I put on it a Badass II bridge, 500k Shadow pots, a Fender No-Load tone pot and a pair of DiMarzio Model J pickups. It sounded pretty clean but the mid-lows were quite dry and the highs sounded too strident (slapping was a bit painful for my ears). Once I properly set up the pickups polepieces it sounded warmer but still kind of "hollow".

A month ago I decided to swap the pots for normal CTS 250k pots. The highs turned more mellow but the bass sounded too dark so I swapped the pickups for a pair of AERO Type 1s. The result is amazing: deeper lows, more musical mids, mellow highs, much more volume and definition... now it sounds to me like a real Jazz Bass.

I guess this kind of thread has been repeated a lot in TB so here is my special contribution:

SX with DiMarzio Model Js & 500K pots

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[vstring3]

Really? Must be personal preference - I think the DiMarzio's sound great.

 

[stflbn]

Definitely the Model J's with 500k pots for me. The Aero's sound midi like and synthetic 'to me'.


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[vstring3]

The Aero's sound midi like and synthetic 'to me'.

They sound like inexpensive stock pickups to my ears.

 

[FunkMetalBass]

Throw in some Nordstrand pups. You'll laugh at the AEROs.

 

[IBWT]

The Youtube clip is strongly eq'd and compressed using an EBS MicroBass II and it also has a few reverb (it is the only clip I had with that pickup configuration). The sound clips are direct from the bass to the PC.

 

[Sauron_]

The Youtube clip is strongly eq'd and compressed using an EBS MicroBass II and it also has a few reverb (it is the only clip I had with that pickup configuration). The sound clips are direct from the bass to the PC.

Put a pair of Morcillas "Murcia made".

 

[mmbongo]

Mmm...I like the Dimarzios too...

 

[savit260]

Mmm...I like the Dimarzios too...

+1

 

[Jazz Ad]

I prefer the tone of the Di Marzio clip.

 

[BioDriver]

I'm also more of a fan of the DiMarzios.

 

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I had Chris Stambaugh build me a shortscale J bass. Cost me close to $2000.

Guess what pickups I asked him to put in.

That's right, DiMarzio Model Js. I love them THAT much.