J-Tone Reds

[JPJ]

So, as some of you know by now, I recently bought a KK Baby Bass. Now whilst this sounded pretty good on its own, and has tons of 'thump' from the stock under bridge magnetic microphone pickup, I couldn't get enough 'mwahhh' without dialling out the 'thump'.
Talking it over with a more knowledgable friend, he suggested adding a bridge wing pickup, so I took a punt on one of the J-Tone Reds being sold on eBay.
Straight out of the packet, the transducers (yes two, because two have to be better than one yes?) were too thin for the bridge slots, and whereas the J-Tone fitting instructions refer to 'baize' material in their installation guide on Facebook, mine came without this material. Fortunately I had some 4mm balsa wood that I was able to sand down to about 1.3mm to shim the transducers into place.
Second gripe was that the supplied washer and rubber piece designed to clamp the jack socket between two strings was too small for the gap between my strings, so a trip down the shed later two new rubber faced aluminium washers were fashioned and are doing the job perfectly.
With it all in place, I fired up the bass through my Headway EDB1, running a stereo OBBM cable between the bass and the Headway and instantly I had the tone I was after. Lovely big thump at the beginning of the note but enough mwah to let even my dodgy vibrato shine through.
Whereas the KK on its own is either really dark or quite thin, the J-Tones have a sort of fretless bass sound to them. But mixed in combination, and the tone in my head is there at my fingertips.
All in all, for the price you pay, these J-Tones seem pretty good. Proof of the pudding of course will be tomorrow's gig, but first impressions are very favourable!

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[evopg]

nice to here you like the j-tone pickups ive got the single wing big bass pickup and gigged with it lastnight absolutely no feedback on my double bass whats so ever best pickups ive ever used in my opinion

[rorysmith]

Got the clicky recently, seems like a good thing indeed, can't complain