Varitone

[Thebassman75]

Has anyone tried one of these??

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I was already thinking of uprating the pups in my jazz to Wizard '84's but just wondered if this might be over egging the pudding, so to speak??

Thanks

[henry norton]

[quote name='Thebassman75' post='714772' date='Jan 16 2010, 01:57 PM']Has anyone tried one of these??

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I was already thinking of uprating the pups in my jazz to Wizard '84's but just wondered if this might be over egging the pudding, so to speak??

Thanks[/quote]
I fitted a varitone onto my EB and it had quite a dramatic effect. I should imagine it would be very useful on a decent Jazz. They don't offer any real 'boost', it's all treble cut but they do offer more than a plain passive tone control.

[Thebassman75]

So would you say I should still uprate the pups for more clarity and output?

[henry norton]

Yes, a varitone is basically a bunch of capacitors that will take away various parts of your signal just like a passive tone control so if you want more output or a wider frequency range then you will need hotter or wider range pickups.

[tom1946]

I have that very one on my MIM Jazz. It does give a good range of passive tones and a bit more versatility.

I think it's worth the money

Oh and I did uprate the pickups to Custom shop 60's, awesome now.

Edited January 17, 2010 by tom1946

[Metalmoore]

I would also recommend the Audere jazz. Gotta love it, i can get a kind of p bass sound out of it i think. Also about the same price as the varitone and im sure there is plenty of us with them on the forum.