Possible Pole Problem?

[bassatnight]

Gents and Ladies,

I have recently purchased a US Fender Standard Jazz which although is lovely and mostly in excellent condition there seems to be a problem with the pick up poles beneth the E string, when I play through an amp with the volume at a nice high level the E string seems to be much lower in sound and tone compared to the other three strings.

Anyone come accross a fault like this before?

The bass is only a year and a half old. Any obvious checks on the pup I can do?

Cheers,

Steve.

[BOD2]

Try another E-string before you do anything else.

It's not uncommon for problems on one string only to be caused by a bad string.

[mrcrow]

are the pups tilted...a bit down on the E side

regarding trying another string...good idea..sometimes its the simplest solution which is the right one...

[bassatnight]

They are a little tilted.



[quote name='mrcrow' post='624376' date='Oct 12 2009, 08:34 PM']are the pups tilted...a bit down on the E side

regarding trying another string...good idea..sometimes its the simplest solution which is the right one...[/quote]

[mrcrow]

[quote name='bassatnight' post='624481' date='Oct 12 2009, 10:15 PM']They are a little tilted.[/quote]

on a jazz there isnt much scope for tilting as you can on a P
imho best leave the pups level..to begin with...see setting pup heights below

that is why some pups have longer poles in the centre 2 on a 4 string

set your pup heights to regulation and take it from there
from the underside of the string to the top of the

E side...1/8
G side ...a small amount closer

with the strings fretted at the last fret

this will give a slight tilt depending on your action

hope this helps

also take off the E string and give it a bit of a coil up and uncoil a few times...
replace exactly as you had it...dont let it be twisted when tensioning

Edited October 13, 2009 by mrcrow