Hello everyone,
I own for years now an american Fender Jazz that can be played in active mode or passive. The bass is alder body with ebony fretboard.
It is set with Fender's noiseless pickups (4th generation I think) that sound good but in my opinion lack of a little something in the low end registry.
Yes of course I can use the bass in active mode and boost the bass but I mostly use it in the end passive and mess with the tone knob to create that unique passive sound. To me the active circuit doesn't sound that great for that bass. The treeble knob doesn't response that well, It doesn't definately reproduce a real tone knob and thus, the overall active circuit produce a annoying volume boost that my other active basses don't
I was looking for some pickups that would produce a better and a little punchier passive sound but that would still be good with the active circuit if I was to play with it again someday. (I want the bass to be still polyvalent if I had to change anything)
In the past, I already tried the quarter pound set in another passive bass, and decided to send it back for the lack of mids
I'm looking for something that will add punch in the low end/mid frequencies without changing too much the sound.
On this website, I checked the apollo set, which are noseless too. Do you think it would be a good choice? I heard on youtube they were very treeble driven which I don't really like (the active circuit already produce a lot of annoying treeble)
Well theanswer could also be totally something else or even "dude don't change the pickups, the fender noiseless are the real deal for this bass"
I'm open for any recommendation
Thanks in advance
I own for years now an american Fender Jazz that can be played in active mode or passive. The bass is alder body with ebony fretboard.
It is set with Fender's noiseless pickups (4th generation I think) that sound good but in my opinion lack of a little something in the low end registry.
Yes of course I can use the bass in active mode and boost the bass but I mostly use it in the end passive and mess with the tone knob to create that unique passive sound. To me the active circuit doesn't sound that great for that bass. The treeble knob doesn't response that well, It doesn't definately reproduce a real tone knob and thus, the overall active circuit produce a annoying volume boost that my other active basses don't
I was looking for some pickups that would produce a better and a little punchier passive sound but that would still be good with the active circuit if I was to play with it again someday. (I want the bass to be still polyvalent if I had to change anything)
In the past, I already tried the quarter pound set in another passive bass, and decided to send it back for the lack of mids
I'm looking for something that will add punch in the low end/mid frequencies without changing too much the sound.
On this website, I checked the apollo set, which are noseless too. Do you think it would be a good choice? I heard on youtube they were very treeble driven which I don't really like (the active circuit already produce a lot of annoying treeble)
Well theanswer could also be totally something else or even "dude don't change the pickups, the fender noiseless are the real deal for this bass"
I'm open for any recommendation
Thanks in advance
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