Jazz Bass With P Bass Pickups
On top of that these basses are actually both a ctive and passive.
Jazz bass with p bass pickups. The tinted gloss neck has block inlays for a truly vintage appearance. All pickups are handwound in a scatter pattern to get the unique vintage tones. The neck of a J bass.
These pickups provide a wider range of harmonic tones that would normally lay inactive in their stock pickups. A split coil is louder than a single coil both by design and because of its position near the neck. Click here for More Information.
Vintage Jazz and Precision Bass Pickup Reproductions. So you can switch between both sounds and even blend it. The P-style form-factor remains mostly unchanged but there are some variations to the tried and tested design.
Then I got a jazz bass pickguard from Warmoth They do one with a P pickup cut out that is perfectly in the sweet spot. There is a tighter thump like. Certainly cheaper than ruining your jazz bass with a huge route and messing up its resale value.
There is a passiveactive switch that allows to easily switch from one mode to the other. Any pickguard that maintains the standard jazz shape does not put the pick up in the sweet spot. Its common to place the J in classic 60s Jazz bridge position polepieces centered at 375 when measured from the back end of a standard Fender bridge plate which gives the individual pickup a fuller soundbut the proximity to the treble coil of the P pickup about 125 closer than on a Jazz setup can emphasize a midrange honk that some find unappealing particularly for slap.
Also it needs care setting up the pickup heights to again ensure the P does not dominate. Schecters pickup line would not be complete without the low end rounding out our selection. Fender Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass.