MM and Jazz style pickups together

[songofthewind]

Hey there basschat hive mind. I'm planning to put an MM pickup and a Jazz bass style front pickup in my MaybeRay build.

Does anyone have an opinion about this type of configuration? I assume it will sound good, but I am concerned about issues like differences in pickup polarity, likely volume differences. I hope to put a Bourns pan pot after the pickups and before the three-band preamp, which is from a Ray 34. 

I am very ignorant and probably unteachable about electrickery, but please let me know your thoughts about this plan.

BTW, I am also considering making a unitary pickup container/ramp to house both pickups, with a nifty rosewood top. I f i do this it means i can remove the pickups from their covers.

[Dov65]

Try asking in the Sandberg group neebur the California TM has same config as what your after 👍

[BassBunny]

I've got 2 basses with that configuration and it works really well.

Both have have single/series/parallel coil switching so there are a number of options.

The MM is generally a bit louder but that's what blend controls are for. 🙂

[Dov65]

I had that in my Sandberg Nighthawk when i think about it, it sounded brilliant..unfortunately mr fekin courier managed to relic it without asking so back it went. 

[paul_5]

I put one in my Jazz basses - between the two J pups. I can record you some audio samples later if you want to hear how they sound.

[songofthewind]

1 hour ago, paul_5 said:

I put one in my Jazz basses - between the two J pups. I can record you some audio samples later if you want to hear how they sound.

That would be great! In fact I have two Jazz pickups, neck and bridge, so that config is also in the realm of possibility.