Corsair

Thanks for that much appreciated, I didn't realize the output would be significantly lower. I think I'll go with a Kent Armstrong MM pickup instead, its cheaper and the website lists it as having enough output to use as a passive.

Hi Folks, One of the basses in my stable is a squier jag bass, the one with the single humbucker pickup. I wasn't expecting to like this bass as much as I do and will be upgrading the bridge, tuners and pickup. The stock pickup can sound a bit muddy and I wanted to swap this out for a replacement. A friend of mine who's main bass is a late 90's US made stingray has offered to sell me the original pickup as he swapped his out for a Seymour Duncan some years back and the pick up is going unused. I'm not an expert in this stuff but from my understanding the MM pickup is passive but the preamp in a MM bass runs off a 9v battery. My question is because the Squier Jag bass is passive will the MM pick up sound dull if its run without a 9V preamp? Cheers