Jazz Bass-Neck Pickup More Trebley Than Bridge

[fordbass]

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone here may be able to help with this one.
I have just upgraded pickups in my cheap Jazz copy to genuine Fender pickups bought off EBay (cant prove they are genuine, only have sellers word), and the neck pickup appears to be more trebley than the bridge, any ideas anyone?

I have installed them in the right places, checked length etc. just to make sure I hadnt put them in the wrong place.

With my usual Fender Jazz I usually play everything through the neck pickup but this is sounding a bit too trebley on this one, have I done something wrong?

Many thanks for looking

Cheers

Steve

[CamdenRob]

Sounds like they are maybe wired the wrong way round? as in the bridge pick up volume is actually controling the neck pickup and vice versa?

[fordbass]

Thanks Rob, but no, checked that, the right volume knob works for the right pickup

[KiOgon]

The pick ups will/should both give the same performance (give or take) it's the position referenced to the string that makes the 'bridge' position normally more treble sounding.

Try reversing the polarity, swap the wires - assuming they're black & white - try them crossed over on one pick up, first choice the neck position.

Assuming you have VVT - with only one tone cap?

[HowieBass]

What sort of balance do you have regarding volume between both pickups? I've read that decreasing the string to pickup distance increases both treble and bass response so maybe the neck pickup needs to drop lower and the bridge pickup needs to come higher to even out the tone though this also affects the volume of each.

[fordbass]

Hi guys
Thanks for your responses, I am going to look at the wiring and possibly swapping, I'm also going to change to 250K pots to, think they might be 500's in at the moment just to see what that does

Cheers

Steve

[HowieBass]

If you have a 500k volume pot then that's certainly going to make the pickup sound too trebley when the volume's on full - you usually only use those on higher impedance humbuckers.

[fordbass]

Thanks Howie, will see how it goes after the change!