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so i have a tuxedo grecobacker that i love dearly but the pickups are just kinda meh flat and flappy sounding/boring

so in saying that i wanna drop something else in there

im thinking of like a jazz pickup in the bridge and in terms of neck im not sure
i like the stringy kinda mid honk with some nice tight low end like justin meldel esq meets blue album bazz sound

now what i dont know is the diffs of hot vs vintage output pickups in regards to bass

in the neck i dont know cause its more of a drop in issue so any suggestion of pickups would be grand


so yeah

Current pickups are Rick sized? Is the horseshoe cover decorative or functional on the Greco? I know with Duncan's retrofit Rick bridge you have to dismantle the stock mount, and that might apply for the Greco, too.

I might try to find a local rewinder to pump up the stock pickups if they are worth rewinding. Overseas shipping might kill that for you.

As a bass-owning guitarist, my experience of vintage output vs hot is that vintage sound great but my playing doesn't always when using them, and hot sound great despite my playing. The vintage sounded a bit thin when my technique wasn't carrying it, hot didn't care. (This was for Duncan Vintage Jazz vs Quarter Pound Jazz.)

Bart retrofits.

We dropped these into a vintage 70's Ric and it sounds killer. Just make sure dimensions will fit yours.
http://www.bestbassgear.com/bartolini-ric-pickups.htm

It will most definitely not be boring.

I just got a set of these puppies - have yet to try them out, but am super excited:

http://shop.joebarden.com/p/r4000-style-bass-set

Jazz/Ric hybrids are the way to go!

I say thunderbird pickups or a J in the bridge and a EB pickup in the neck.. or get ric pickups...

joe barden demos plzz


any recs on hot jazz bazz bridge pickups i was thinking of maybe a tv jones related pickup in the neck or trying a normal ric pickup in the neck the outputs just so low and wussy in the neck

Dimarzio Model J or ultra jazz might be good to look at, both are pretty hot output. Tv Jones is not a very high output pickup though so you might have balance issues with a hot J.

Model J is the shit.
Strong, full and the bridge pickup doesn't sound all smooth jazz wanky.

tuffteef wrote:joe barden demos plzz

As soon as the bass they're going into is done, you'd better believe I'll have demos up.

So that'll be, like, in 2015.

how can you tell if it's your pickups that is the weakness link tone wise in your signal chain?

ChetMagongalo wrote:how can you tell if it's your pickups that is the weakness link tone wise in your signal chain?

well.. first having more than one bass helps of if you've played a lot of basses… for me if I have turn my amp up a lot then there is something off..

its the pickups and string choice

from playing other bass guitars p and j
even my rickenbacker guitars 12/6 were pretty quiet when i was changing guitars through a set

i dont use alot of pedals if any these days im just so lazy to plug them in or even take them

the pickups are very rickenbackery as is but thats not what im looking for i need something thats more versatile cause i cant lug extra guitars and pedals and all this what not around and the pickup change i know will make a big difference
i love playing the bass but not the sound its giving me

I've found that RICs really very in volume, my 77 has new pickups in it and it is as loud as a P or J so is my 74 with stock pickups from that year where the 80 [the blue one] with stock pickups from that year is really quiet and I have thought of changing the pickups out in it… I've already replaced all the controls