Kent Armstrong Split Tube Jazz pickups

[Beer of the Bass]

I'm thinking about using a pair of [url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/product/SPLIT_TUBE_JAZZ_PU_CHROME_REAR_JBLR-1"]these[/url] for a bass I'm putting together, and I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience with them? They're great visually, but the description of how they sound is a bit on the vague side. They'd be going in a 5 string, but with narrow 16mm string spacing, so the fact they don't have individual polepieces is a bonus.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I have them in a highway1 Jazz - I'm not too good at describing how pickups sound, but I like the sound and they work well with the j-retro in the bass to give a wide range of tones.

[Beer of the Bass]

Would you say they were brighter or mellower than the stock highway 1 pickups? I had a H1 jazz for a while, so it could be a useful reference point.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Since I had the j-retro fitted at the same time and I can go from Marcus kicking over a bucket of spoons to bowel opening dub without touching my amp eq its hard to say how much is actually due to the pickups, but they seem to have a wide frequency reponse - I have a passive danelectro and the low-tech "bung a load of coiled wire into lipstick tube" method of construction does seem to give an extended frequency response at both ends of the spectrum.

[Mcgiver69]

Hey here is a sample of the Lakland Jerry Scheff this one has the same production Kent Armstrongs it is the first one on the site.

[url="http://www.edfriedland.com/equipment/"]http://www.edfriedland.com/equipment/[/url]

[Beer of the Bass]

Cool, it sounds like they'll do the job. I was a bit concerned from the "warmer, fuller" etc. in the blurb that they might be overly dark sounding, but that doesn't seem to be the case.