I enjoyed this series a lot! Do more of these. I can imagine you put a lot of time into these vids....and I'm sure everyone appreciates the effort! My wife said I can pick one of these. So, I voted for the Audere Jazz. Again, thanks for all your effort.

Big fan of Audere JZ3. I dropped one into a $140 SX Ursa 6 string bass, and it instantly made it a killer bass. The best deal of them all, IMO.

I enjoyed that series! Fave: Sadowsky. Logically next perhaps: 5 jazz replacement pickups?

@PorchBass

2 жыл бұрын

Sadowsky had the definitive active jazz bass character!

@Eugensson

2 жыл бұрын

String brands maybe?

@maartenarnou

Жыл бұрын

That's a good idea: JB pickup comparison

My favorite was the Audere Jazz. I actually ordered a 4 band Audere classic jazz after watching this series.

Slap tones: John East: 3:45 Sadowsky : 4:32 Audere Jazz: 1) 5:31 2) 6:07

This has been a great week.. Thank you Lobster

Great series! I appreciate all the work that went in to putting this together. That Lusithand was really unique.

I really enjoyed this series. I have a Sadowsky and love how simple and effective the pre amp is. However, for the price the low frills Audere was the most impressive. I would LOVE to see a P bass pick up review with vintage voiced and modern throaty voiced pickups. Keep it up Lobster!

Thanks Lobster! Always a great content!!

I have a V7 MM Sire J-Bass. I just sort of stumbled onto this video. Wow, great work. I will go back and watch the individual videos to see the installation processes for these preamps. Love your channel.

That was an awesome series! Thank you!

My Favorites were the Lusithand NFP, the Sadowsky and the Audere Jazz. If I had a Jazz bass I wanted to upgrade I would probably just end up with the Audere Jazz as it is the cheapest path to a simple good sounding preamp, but that Lusithand is very interesting and I would be very temped to go that direction. This kind of stuff is great! I don't think there is any other channel doing bass mod comparisons like this. I think a good one to do would be Precision bass pickup swaps, there are so many on the market it would be great to hear the differences.

Great series! Well done as usual.

Hey Lobster, thank you for the interesting and informative series. I enjoyed it. My personal favorites were the Lusithand Filter pre-amp and the John East Retro pre-amp. I will probably put a Lusithand into my Dark Evolution.

Thank you for taking your time to do this. It's really helpful

I like that Sadowsky Preamp, but the Audere Jazz is pretty sick as well. I guess I need more basses! MOAR BASSES!!!

The audere classic seems like a solid choice all around.

Thanks for this awesome deep dive review serie. 👍 My favourites: 1. Sadowsky 2. Audere Jazz 3. John East 4. Lusithand 5. Audere Z (too complicated for me)

I like the lusithand preamp the best. Ive never wanted an active EQ based bass but theres something about the versitility of a filter based active bass thats always appealed to me and not having to spend £30,000 to gst a bass with such a preamp (like you would with a wal/alembic) is the icing on top with it.

This is great! Now that they're all out, I need to go back and listen again! I would be tempted to find the one I liked and put it in a pedal on the floor. Take a look at the Genzler 4 on the Floor.

Absolutely LOVED the Lusithand but my heart says keep it simple and get the Audere Jazz

Lobster You're the Best At Giving Information On Preamps and Stuff All of Them were Awesome Hey Where's The Cat?

Awesome series Lobster! I really looked forward to each day's offering. Going forward, how about J pickup comparison?

@Mr.Goldbar

2 жыл бұрын

Aguilar AG4J-HC is my personal favorite

Great series. The Lucidhand was tough to top.

All of these preamps pass muster, easily.Not a dog in the bunch.(lucky for us cat lovers).As I noted in pt.1 of this series I put a $99 Audere in a Frankenbass Jazz build.Coupled with Armstrong Hot Lips lipstick tube pups, this bass is now such a treat.Thanks for the info!

That was very nice LowEndLobster, very well done and informative for me anyway. :)

Great series, lobster! I'd choose the Sadowsky preamp for my JB, if I wasn't already using the Radial bassbone outboard preamp. The overall sound quality of the Sadowsky is just awesome. And it offers passive mode, too. I was quite impressed, how much the active circuit improves the tonal definition even without any boost or cut. And the amount of bass/treble boost perfectly fits the Jazz Bass characteristics without sounding artificial. Just tasteful!

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bones!

Great job. Would love to see more cabs compared one day. :)

I had a five-string jazz bass. The that I had was to replace the bridge pickup with a a Music Man pickup. I also thought of putting a mono-rail or an accu-cast bridge on it, too. Unfortunately it never happened.

Nice series Lobster. I liked the Sadowsky for its punctiuaded filtering and the Lusithand for its "weirdness".

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Pogoism!

Thanks much for the series, I really enjoyed it and prompted me to order an Audere preamp. Which one are you keeping in that bass? Thanks Lobster! 🦞

Thanks Lobster. Entertaining series! Could you please do a modern 1x12 cab shootout? Berg vs aguilar vs epifani vs ashdown vs vanderklay! I expected more back to back, direct comparisons of tone in this roundup to be honest. These help a lot and a quick A/B clip highlights subtleties of electronics. What about G&L pickups and pre in a jazz?

Thanks for doing this Lobster. The drop-ins were all a little different. My favorite would be : 1. John East 2. Sadowsky 3. Lusithand 4. Audere Pro Z 5. Audere. I liked the variable but decently adjustable John East and really appreciated the clean boost & tone of the Sadowsky. Lusithand was just so interesting that it really is in a box all by itself because of the filters. Pro Z seemed a bit hard to deal with and you'd have to "monkey with it" to get the tone you wanted. So there'd be some messing around with it on the front end to know how you'd like to use it. For future ideas. Hmmm. Different pickups in jazz basses and their tonal differences within the same V3. Or Super mods. How to take you bass to "the ridiculous level". A/P controls, preamp options, bridge options, tuner options. I've given you a lot more here than I think I did. Well... Good options for other videos.

my carvin lb76 is a jazz bass but all maple. not the jazz style body. gonna get my eb5 action lowered maybe a new bridge. love the eb5. !! ever horse around with a six string bass. sadowsky sounds awesome. have a good day.

My favorite was the Audere Jazz preamp . It's funny that those pickups are a "budget " ceramic pickup and worked well with most of the preamp . I'm going to try to find that Audere jazz bass preamp for one of my player j basses . I'd like to see in the future some of the EMG plug and play j bass systems in the bass . I have a EMG GZR system I'm going to put in my player P bass.

I really like the East. Preamp, followed by the Sadowsky..I have both options, and it is goods so.

Hi, my friend! Great video. Here is my Sire V7 watching how it would like to be…

Dear L. E. Lobster; I would love to see You do a Magnum Bass shoot out. Eastwood is releasing a new Version of the Ovation Classic, and there were 4 (FOUR) of those: 2 Passive, 2 Active. Maybe all stereo, both active Basses the Magnum II and IV are stereo. Eastwood might be stereo too. Sincerely Mike B. B. From Philly P.A. U.S.A.

Great series! I bought the Lusithand. I imagine it takes a lot of time to create the vids, I don't mind if you spread over two weeks instead of one.

Great series!👍🏻 I'm going to have to check out the Stingray vids now because I have one of those too. As for what next? I'd suggest a few. First, a Jazz Bass pickup guide but not just any old JB pickup, have a noise-canceling shootout/guide. There really aren't a lot of videos on these other than DiMarzio's. I'd particularly love to see a good look at some Seymour Duncan Apollos and the Aguilar HC's. Are the Apollos as close to vintage as they claim? Other than the ones I listed above, I don't really know of any others besides Fender. Maybe someone else has a different one they want checked out. Then go to the P Bass pickups but also cover preamps as P Basses don't seem to get preamps put into them nearly as much as Jazzes do. Why do you think this is? Maybe P Bass players are just less likely by nature to tinker around. Hence the preference for a single pickup. One last thing. I believe you looked at the Ray 35 but it isn't available lefty. However the Ray 5 is. Have you looked at one of these yet? If you've already covered some of this sorry but I'm kinda new to your channel which is a lot if fun btw.👍🏻 Keep up the good works Lobster Dude!😁

I'm interested in a neck comparison. Doesn't have to be a series, and can probably be done with the basses you already own

Great video and comparison. You could do a similar one for P basses. I know you've done one for MM styles basses, I'm just wondering if I should swap out the one I have in my Ray35 as I don't like the flat top around the screws and prefer to have my thumb between the screws.

How about a parts J bass that is converted to a Thunderjazz? How about reviews of the Mama humbucker (Italy) direct replacement for the Casady signature bass, as well as the Daguet Bisonic pickup that fits in the Casady Elektar cover? Daguet Guitars named it the Dagstar. I really think Casady’s bass is a winner, but they chose to pot the pickup with epoxy. Do they lack definition? A survey would say… You could also round up a used Ibanez Artcore semi hollow, single pickup, and install a BSDS, Daguet or Mama pickup in it. We’re just scratching the surface now.

For the tie breaker Audere for the win because of price and number of programs.

@danielgore861

2 жыл бұрын

Dalton, I would add the customer service is awesome. When you call David will most likely answer the phone. He took the time to help me set up the (Pro Z JZ6). This thing has so many adjustments and they sound great. When I have my bass made (Roscoe) I'll probably speck out this preamp.

@daltonbell2907

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielgore861 you just can't go wrong with that combo. Roscoe meets Audere.

I know from experience that the mid-sweep is high-sweet. So the John East would be my choice, as it has already been. Having said that, the Lusithand thing got me really curious... some unique tones came out of that thing, but it's dead expensive. Maybe next year :). About things to check out, I'd really love to see a serious head-to-head comparison of strings, as experiments of this kind can get very expensive, and this can be a series of videos for example first video would compare roundwounds, another would compare flatwounds and a third one would compare those covered with various coatings. I'm not sure you'd want to do such a thing as "strings" isn't really a modification and I know you love your cutter, soldering iron and... not so much your electric drill :)

@Metalbass10000

2 жыл бұрын

If you do strings, please don't limit it to brand vs brand. I am very curious about materials and manufacturing process. I've used Dean Markley cryogenic Blue Steel strings for years because my sometimes aggressive style broke so many low strings, but those held up. Recently the Ernie Ball Cobalt strings have been winning me over on my more vintage basses. I've never tried the M steels, nor many of the modern coated strings. I had such a Negative experience with the coded strings years ago that I never felt any desire to try any.

I have a good handle on Jazz and Precision pickups, and MM style. What I would like to know more about are soapbar humbuckers

Great content man! Can you do a similar thing for Jazz bass pickups comparing famous brands such as DiMarzio, Bartolini, etc?

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I plan on doing this in the future

I would like to see you do a review on the Schecter J5 Bass I can't find any review on this bass.

1. Tie between John East and programmable Audere. 2. Tie between Lucithand filters and stock Sire preamp. 3. Audere Jazz series 4. Sadowsky

John East, Audere Z Sadowsky

I wish to remove the battery from under the controlplate there would be a solution to open and close the controlplate without screws.

"Join Our Discord" would be a great album name.

I don't know how I missed this video, the J east is the best, but it's hard beat the value of an Audere.

Sadowsky 👍

Sadowsky

use a single coil in the neck and a stacked humbucker in the bridge (both jazz pickups). in my bb76 i have s music man and a single coil sounds awesome active / passive. see if you like that configuration. ? just asking. (grunty). have a good day

I'm sure you've sold tons of preamps from this series! I bought an audere classic the other day and probably gonna buy another Sadowsky. Easily one of my favorite series that you've done!

@Breeze_b_hard

2 жыл бұрын

What type of bass do you have?

@randombassplayer_07

2 жыл бұрын

@@Breeze_b_hard couple of jazz basses.

Wich are the pick ups?? Stock series? I have a Sire V5 and I am thinking to change it pick up and maybe the put it a preamp like Sadowsky but after of your video i have doubts

I really liked the sadowsky, are there any preamps that are catered toward P basses?

Hey Lobster just looked at This. How about Mike Pope,Barts, Aguilar and Tone Monsters Preamps?

Audere pro z

I have a Guyker J bass preamp. Any body have any experience with these?

Looks like i have lots of thinking to do...

Do a series on exploring both filter and EQ based systems...

@russellzauner

2 жыл бұрын

also Reeperbahn festival is streaming live on YT and it's pretty great so far

The jazz basses I’m looking at don’t have the normal jazz plate a dark glass tone capsule or something won’t sound terrible paired with jazz pups right lol

@danielgore861

2 жыл бұрын

Look up the Audere web sight. I just added one to a Michael Kelly jazz bass. Totally changed the sound in a very good way.

How about a P/J bass preamp comparison?

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Heyo! These preamps (or most preamps really) can be used in a PJ setup. J preamps are specific to ones that are mounted on the control plate, though theoretically you can put anything on a control plate. However there isn't really such thing as a 'PJ' preamp specifically

Are these aftermarket pre-amps quieter than the stock unit or it is the noise more a function of the lack of shielding and the factory pickups?

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

The noise is more of a function of the lack of shielding and not having noiseless pickups. I may do another series like this but with noiseless J's to better demo the preamps.

@jimc4137

Жыл бұрын

@@LowEndLobster I'm still searching for a noiseless pup that sounds like a single coil! Have you found anything close?

Nothing was wrong with the original Sire preamp that came on the bass as it was.

@cliffdickson

Жыл бұрын

I find that the preamp on my sire v7 is a bit noisy - lots of hiss

Next. A BassMods preamp. In a jazz bass and a p bass.

What! No BassMods preamp.

P-bass pickup shootout.

No salutations crustaceans 🦞:(

1. Tie between Audere programmable and John East 2. Sire bass preamp 3. Audere 2 band with vtc 4. Sadowsky 5. Filter preamp