moonbass Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 So I bought a Fender Precision 5 which has a very professionally fitted but pretty thin sounding Jazz neck pickup installed. I never use it as the precision pickup sounds amazing in its own right. My other bass is a Stingray though, and I wondered if anyone had tried adding a humbucker to this kind of setup? Is it possible to add an active pickup to a passive precision bass? I hear the Fender humbucker that was on the old deluxe precision 5s is pretty thin too, and that's the last thing I want! I'm not too bothered about resale value going down as I'm pretty sure this bass is a keeper. And of course if anyone knows of an amazingly fat and warm high output single coil 5 string Jazz neck pickup that would be great too?! Cheers, Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 [size=4]I'd go with a full replacement passive set. I use Seymour Duncan and Bartolini and have heard and liked Delano and Lindy Fralin pickups, but you're going to get 99 different suggestions.[/size] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Try flipping the polarity of the J pup. Maybe it's just out of phase with your P pup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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