One bass to rule them all...

[Doc B]

I've recently achieved tonal perfection (to my ears) with my recent purchase and subsequent modification of my Squier VM Jazz with maple body and maple neck:

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My Jazz is by far the best sounding bass I've played and has a neck and good action too.

The problem is that my old Streamer Std II simply blows it away when it comes to feel, playability, ergonomics, comfort, whatever you want to call it and the dual big humbuckers provide plenty of thumb anchoring points. That is why I've kept it for so long, that and I love the looks of it too. It feels like it was built for me, even though it's an off the shelf instrument.

But the Streamer just can't cut it sound-wise any more, it does it's warm dark growl thing brilliantly but I want the bright bouncy springy ringing sound of my Jazz. It is THE SOUND for me - it doesn't need any EQ other than to engage the Deep and Bright switches on my Ashdown Electric Blue 120.

Ideally I'd like to start by changing the pups to Wizard 64s like in my Jazz but the non-std shape of the MEC humbuckers makes that a problem.

Any ideas?

[Guest]

Delano are one of the few firms who make drop in replacements for the twin jazz, I seen to remember looking at some wizards when looking for pickups for my Dolphin if its the same PU config thiese may do

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The delano option
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Edited December 21, 2008 by steve-norris

[Doc B]

Thanks for that - I'll have to measure the pups on my Streamer to see how the outline of them compares with a twin jazz.