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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: saltine on September 21, 2005, 09:20:46 AM

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: saltine on September 21, 2005, 09:20:46 AM

Hi everyone,

I wonder if Bareknuckle PIckups for Fender jazz exists or not...
I havn't found any information about this on the website but a dealer in paris sells it.

Anyone can explain ?

Thanks !

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: HJM on September 21, 2005, 09:47:09 AM

Bass pickups are not on the site - but they do exist! Mr Pig will be on the forum later to tell you all about them!

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on September 21, 2005, 09:52:39 AM

Yes they do exist and they are fantastic.
Ihave fitted two sets to basses and the improvement in sound is significant
A cheap copy bass suddenly had balls and true tone- excellant!!

Title: Thanks for your answer !
Post by: saltine on September 21, 2005, 09:59:25 AM

Thank you for your answer !

Actually I bought these pickups for my Fender Mexican Jazzbass. I can't wait for trying them !
I'm sure the sound improvement will be great. Mexican jazzbass standard pickups are a bit muddy for me and that's a big problem because I especially use my bass for recording via a DI.

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: HJM on September 21, 2005, 12:29:42 PM

You'll love 'em!

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: Ratrod on September 21, 2005, 07:35:06 PM

Mecican Jazz Bass with BKP's would sound awesome. I would have done the same thing if I were a bass player. I'll bet you'll get those legendary tones the Jazz Bass is (in)famous for.

Btw, wouldn't it be cool if we had some soundclips of BKP equipped basses?

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: Tim on September 21, 2005, 07:52:37 PM

Yes we do make P and J style bass pickups, wound with either Heavy Formvar or plain enamel wire.I hope you like them, oh, and welcome to the forum :D .

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: Steve-Mr Pig 2U on September 21, 2005, 07:53:40 PM

We wind our jazz bass coils to the spec that Fender used in the 60's. We also can wind them with Heavy Formvar wire to produce a rounder tone with more punch.
Ive been meaning to put some in one of my Warwick’s, but they don’t make it easy to swap pickups because they use neck spaced pickups in both positions.
Ive got a Formvar wound P-bass set one of my bass guitars which sounds fantastic, its got so much more life in it than the actives in my Warwick’s. More bass and much more definition, it responds very well to both finger style and slap styles of playing.

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: saltine on September 22, 2005, 08:24:23 AM

I will have my bass back on sunday and I will try to post some sounds examples. (I'm not a great bass player but I hope you will be able to hear the sound of BKP !)

Title: Fender JazzBass Pickup ?
Post by: Ratrod on September 22, 2005, 05:47:50 PM

Cool! 8)