Active jazz

[Huggy and the Bears]

I am fancying modifying a Jazz bass to a 3 band active circuit. Any ideas about what I should do??

Cheers,

Simon.

[YouMa]

Easy get an audere or john east preamp.

[simon1964]

[quote name='YouMa' post='482089' date='May 7 2009, 03:41 PM']Easy get an audere or john east preamp.[/quote]

+1. I fitted the audere to my Jazz. Very easy, and sounded great

[risingson]

Heard the John East is good, was considering putting it in my Jazz with some Nordys but prefer passive basses. Might want to consider the Sadowsky floor preamp as well?

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='liamcapleton' post='482103' date='May 7 2009, 03:55 PM']Heard the John East is good, was considering putting it in my Jazz with some Nordys but prefer passive basses. Might want to consider the Sadowsky floor preamp as well?[/quote]

Why specifically Nordys?

[YouMa]

As regards to the east i always see them come up second hand on here but never the auderes i dont know if this is because less people use the audere or more people keep them,as soon as i have some spare wonga im putting one of these in my jazz.

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='YouMa' post='482111' date='May 7 2009, 04:01 PM']As regards to the east i always see them come up second hand on here but never the auderes i dont know if this is because less people use the audere or more people keep them,as soon as i have some spare wonga im putting one of these in my jazz.[/quote]

There are a lot less Auderes. Go to the otherside of the pond... there are a lot less East units.

[OutToPlayJazz]

I have the Sadowsky preamp/di pedal which is very good - The plus side being you can keep your jazz original. If you want 3-band have a look at the Aguilar Tone Hammer.

[plumbob]

+1 for the East

Had a marcus retro fitted to my miller bass ,and it pretty much does most things now.

I think the j retro deluxe is basically the same circuit ,but by all means check this with Mr East himself, Johns a great guy , and very helpful .

[risingson]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='482108' date='May 7 2009, 03:58 PM']Why specifically Nordys?[/quote]

I wanted the NJ4SV's instead of the stock Fender U.S pups for a change, and for humcancelling capability. I still will probably do this, but the actives don't really appeal to me. I'd consider looking to Dimarzio as well.