lownote Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 (edited) Hi Got a Tanglewater Classic Jazz and would be grateful for thoughts on a pickup and if necessary electrics upgrade. All help gratefully received, but it would be especially handy to hear from anyone who's been down this road. Edited January 2, 2015 by lownote12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornats Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Check out the thread about Entwistle pickups. A few people on there have put then in the Tanglewater classic jazz: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/235314-entwistle-bass-pickups/ I've got a classic jazz, and have a pair of JBXN pickups in my Squier but haven't changed the pickups in the Tanglewater. The output from the bridge pickup in my Tanglewater is quite low and I've had to push the P pickup down and bring the J pickup way up to compensate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkin Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 FWIW I really like the pickups in my Classic J. I do find the output a bit on the low side though, the J bridge PUP especially so. After a few emails back and forth with Alun Entwistle - who makes the stock PUPs, albeit to Overwater spec - I went for his standard JBX bridge PUP, just to try to equalise the relative outputs really, rather than to change the tone, and I'm really pleased with it. A touch brighter sounding than the stock one, but still has most of the smoothness that I liked and the output's a bit stronger so it's much more usable blended with the P PUP. And all for the princely sum of a tenner I've not tried the JBXN (I don't think it was available at the time I was looking) but reports are very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHeart Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 JBXN are awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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