Upgrading a Fender MIM Bass // EMGs Sound Awesome!
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I've been wanting to upgrade this bass for a few years. It's a 2008-ish? Fender made-in-Mexico Deluxe P/J 4-string that I found at a pawn shop a few years back. It came with Fender noiseless pickups and an active EQ. I've never really liked the pickups and didn't use the onboard electronics other than the volume control so I've been wanting to upgrade it for a while. A friend of mine threw a set of EMG active Jazz bass pickups in one of his builds and I was a fan of the sound so I decided to try out the EMG P/J pickup set. I switched the bridge to a Hipshot Kickass High-Mass bridge and the strings to a set of Thomastik Infeld Jazz Bass flatwounds. If you're thinking about upgrading your bass, here's what mine sounds like now.
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▶️ Highlights
0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Hipshot Bridge
1:18 - EMG Pickups & Electronics
1:54 - Installation
3:45 - Quick electronics test
5:19 - Continued Installation
7:21 - Thomastik Infeld Jazz Bass Flatwounds
9:58 - Sound demo
10:46 - Neck pickup
12:05 - Bridge pickup
12:42 - Both pickups
13:16 - The major differences
14:45 - Before & After Tone Comparison
15:27 - Outro
#BassUpgrade #EMGpickups #ThomastikInfeld
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Пікірлер: 26
Pretty sweet! Sounds really good
Dang! The tone bypass sound on almost every pickup setting was my favorite. Good option
Great video, bro. ! I liked the hipshot kickass. Took your advice brought 2 to put on my p bass's love them .
Well done, buddy. You have me considering these same mods for my stock MIM Jazz Bass. 👍
Thank you brother
With that extra hole in the pickguard you could put a tone for each pickup OR switch OR blend control😅
Pretty cool. I have been basically doing this with most guitars and basses I have (or had). Get the somewhat cheaper variant, make sure it plays well and is well intonated (these days less of an issue it seems) and upgrade it. In the end you often have a better instrument for less money, had great fun making it that way plus an unique instrument.
@akinwale_p
10 ай бұрын
Literally, my squire pj plays so nicely, I'm gonna change out the pickups and neck to make it even nicer
I have an old 96 Fender PJ known as the Cowpoke. I didn't care for the original tone. I had my guy do some upgrades. I bought a hipshot kickass bridge and ordered an Audere Classic 2 band preamp... I didn't want to have to drill extra holes. The day the preamp was to arrive, my tech calls and says I should run a Relentless P and a Quarter Pound J. He said the QP J was the only J they tested that had output to match the Relentless. I explained I had already ordered a preamp He did some research and hit me back up saying it will work. I will say it's does have a voice of it's own. Amazing tone with a pick and really good with fingers. And here's the downfall... I am getting 60 cycle hum. I was excited to play it at a church gig a couple weeks ago but after rehearsal, I knew I would have to bring my Stingray. The electrical buzz was unbearable. I am tempted to pull the preamp and run it passive just to see if that helps. If not, I will end up swapping pickups.
@danielgore861
6 ай бұрын
Call Audere, they walk you through somethings to remove the hum. They helped my.
I feel the new sound could have been achieved through and EQ pedal
Hi! Did you have to drill your bass to put the new bridge? greetings from Peru ! Excellent job by the way !
@AlexPriceMusician
Жыл бұрын
Nope, dropped straight in with no modifications!
Some quality upgrades. You should get one of the EMG eq electronics sets so you don't have a hole in the front of an otherwise very smart bass.
@AlexPriceMusician
Жыл бұрын
I was looking at those but wasn't convinced I would use it for an extra $200
I found the kickass bridge (even with the steel saddles) really mellowed out the tone compared to the stock bridge when I did some upgrades. I put in a Duncan Quarter Pound pickup and hi mass bridge and the whole bass was just duller than the stock squier affinity stuff. When I swapped the bridge out for a simple Wilkinson one, it got all the punch I was expecting. I'm not honestly sure what the deal is there.
@AlexPriceMusician
Жыл бұрын
Interesting! I’m digging this setup - maybe the Hipshot is helping to tame the full range sound of the active EMGs? Thanks for sharing your experience
Why did you add the foam?
Buen bajo quedó .....pero falta aprender a equalizarlo......!
I would have used EMG Hz pickups. Killer tone and no battery needed.
@funkingitup1805
9 ай бұрын
AKA "The worst EMGs"
@iamgribs
7 ай бұрын
@@funkingitup1805their GZR set is passive and sounds ace
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You are missing a pot.
@AlexPriceMusician
Жыл бұрын
Nope