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Pickups to fit an abused Jazz body?


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Folks

 

This recently made its way to Beedsters Home for Abused Basses. It's a lovely old bit of wood in the shape of a Jazz Bass that someone has really gone to town on, routing new PUP cavities with what appears to have been some form of agricultural machinery. Installed PUPs are a pair of Ibanez EXP-4s which I suspect I'm not going to get along with too well. I'm going to tidy things up and then I'd quite like to put in something PUP-wise that will be different to a Precision or Jazz. It's going to have a fretless neck and I can experiment with a J-Retro also. Present PUP size is 11cm x 3.5cm. Suggestions welcome

 

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Pretty wide for a 4-string pickup. With a little more enlargement in both directions you could go for an EMG 45 series, or in one direction and with a couple of slivers of wood each side an EMG 40 series.

 

I've got a pair of MK5CBC in a Cort Space which are fine, well-balanced pickups (TBH the original MK1s seem OK to me too, there was a strange manufacturing fault that I didn't notice when I got the bass).

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What's the actual cavity size? Looks like there's some wiggle room there so 5 string Bart M5 (114mm x 37mm) with blade magnets might be a better choice. Could spec a 5 string Singularity in M5 size for example.

 

The Bartolini site has a handy feature on the right where you can determine what size you need:

https://bartolini.net/product-category/bass-pickups/bass-soapbars/

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