What pickup in bridge to match neck wide range

[allstarrme]

I have 2 bases, one tele & one precision bass, that has the fender wide range humbucker in the neck. The tele one already has a duncan designed J pickup in the bridge, the p bass I'm going to add one to it.

The j pickup isn't a very good match being lower output and non humbucking, so what's a better pickup for this?

I see Delano has a j/mm but I assume that would still be to low output. A 1/4lb J or a hot stack would be better. Anyone tried the rio grande muy grande powerbucker bridge? That I could run parallel, series or split for sounds and have one coil in the 60's & one in the 70's position.

I feel like ideally I would put 2 quarter pound J's together, one flipped over, to make what I want. Anyway I'd love to hear some opinions even if it's just with the regular P pickup and not the wide range one for matching them up.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: What pickup in bridge to match neck wide range

Firstly, can it be assumed that you are content with the Wide Range lookalike humbuckers?

I agree that a Hot Stack for Jazz Bass pickup is the strongest candidate for the single cutaway bass. My approach would be to revise the controls to Vol., Vol., Tone - like a regular Jazz Bass. This should make it easier to balance the pickup volume levels than the three-way selector switch.

Alternatively, just combine the humbucker with a three-band active EQ system.

 

[allstarrme]

Re: What pickup in bridge to match neck wide range

I'm pretty happy with the wide range humbucker sound. I haven't checked the output but being all the way at the neck its much louder and deeper than the thin sounding dd J pickup.