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I Simulated 29 Jazz Bass Pickups So I Wouldn't Have to Buy Them All
A Python pickup simulator ranks 29 Jazz Bass pickups by brightness through three circuits. DC resistance is the wrong number; inductance predicts tone. Then a bench A/B of three sets through the same harness put the pickup differences at about 2dB — and the harness at 12.
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Four Pickups, One Sound: Which Jazz Bass Pickup Gets You There?
Four hum-cancelling Jazz Bass pickups mapped across three circuit stages, with the charts to show which one gets closest to your target — and what two months of playing the winner said about how much the pickup was ever the question.
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Jazz Bass Master Harness: Volume · Q · Blend + Series/Parallel + Phantom Buffer
A Jazz Bass harness with series/parallel switching, a passive Q-filter in place of the tone control, and a phantom-powered ring-hot buffer. Three knobs, no tone pot, cable-immune. Built for Fralin Split Jazz. Every solder joint numbered.
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The Q-Filter: A Passive Bark Dial That Turned Out to Be a Switch
A Jazz Bass tone slot with no tone pot: a no-load 50K dial and one 1nF cap that relocate the pickup's resonant peak. What it measured, why the dial is really a two-position switch, and what goes back in its place.
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