Pickup Recommendation

[Pete Academy]

A customer of mine has a Mex Fender Jazz fitted with an East Retro preamp. He played someone's 1970s Jazz and was blown away by the sound. He's thinking of replacing the pickups on his Jazz to get a similar sound and has narrowed choices to Bare Knuckle PE series or Seymour Duncan Antiquity.

Anyone used these pickups before?

[fluffo]

snap I am in an identical position, east retro preamp Im looking around to see what would be good with it, dimarzio ultrajazz is one im thinlking or kent armstrong/.
Let me know your findings

[LawrenceH]

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A customer of mine has a Mex Fender Jazz fitted with an East Retro preamp. He played someone's 1970s Jazz and was blown away by the sound. He's thinking of replacing the pickups on his Jazz to get a similar sound and has narrowed choices to Bare Knuckle PE series or Seymour Duncan Antiquity.
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Afraid I haven't tried these, but my first port of call would be the Fender 75 Reissue pickups. They are available as a replacement part and are quite cheap, but more importantly they are a very good pickup with that aggressive top-end bite characteristic of 70s jazzes. It is different from the 60s repros that have a more mellow sound.

[EBS_freak]

The Bare Knuckle Jazz bass pickups blow me away. When handed a Jazz bass with them inside, I had to double check to make sure there was no preamp wizardy going on because they were sooooo good and reactive, even when run passively.

[Pete Academy]

Thanks for the comments. He went for the bare knuckles.