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Newbie to lull basses. Does anyone with a Lull passive jazz run DIFFERENT PUPS than the Fralins that come stock with it? And can you tell me what you use and why?
Nordstrand Big Singles, but I don't run it passive most of the time.
Why? Because the way they make me feel from head to toe. To me, my modded V4 is what a jazz bass should sound like.
Why? Because the way they make me feel from head to toe. To me, my modded V4 is what a jazz bass should sound like.
Seymour Duncan. Because I have them in other J-style basses and absolutely love them. My bass does have a preamp, but it also has a full passive bypass mode complete with passive tone, and I do run it that way sometimes.
Lol glad you didn't hold back on your opinion of the fralins. I play a fen*** select jazz and absolutely love the pups . I'm actually considering putting those in my new Lull jazz. I'm just not digging the tone of the Fralins like I do the selects.
Fralins are coming in my new M4V but I'm hoping they sound better then the passive PJ set up. Totally different application.
I've got Fralins in my V4 (and also two non-Lull P basses). Love em. But to each his or her own!
I think the Fralins don't match that well with the P for output. I like them just fine on my M4V. I think Mike is recommending Nordys for the PJ.
Oh brother, that was supposed to be my first Lull, I chose the bora burst finish and it was gonna have black hardware and a clear pickguard, but in the end I decided to go rear routed, no pickguard and get a different kind of blue/green burst finish. I'm glad it this beauty found a new home soon! Enjoy, and please post more pics or a video if u get the chance
I have only had jazz fralins passive and I loved the tone!! I had a lull pj with nordys and they are a bit clearer sounding. My p4 coming has a fralin....I never tried a fralin P....now I am scared!!!
My M5V-PJ has Mike's SD custom wound (humcanceling) PUs...love the passive tone so much, I sent it back to him last week to replace the Bart 3-band with a Bart 2-band (+ passive tone control) set up similar to Pauliebass's PJ5-24, except ptc push/pull->passive in the down position... I've read great reviews about Nordy's in his PJ's, but decided to stick with SD's that I really, really like...and not mess with having the bridge PU re-routed. Maybe Nordy's for another Lull bass down the road???
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I like the SD passive too, a bit more on the neck pup on my MV5. I don't like fiddling with knobs much but I do like the bridge pup maybe slightly more in active than passive with a slight upper mid boost when I really want it to honk/baby fart
