SX Jazz Bass | Modified

[garyreal]

I'm not that satisfied with the tones that i am getting from the SX i bought from my friend.

So i decided to modify and torture the SX to replace the pickup with a pair of Wilkinson MM pickups that i bought from UK.

Final image of the bass below.

Too bad, i only used a hammer and chisel to enlarge the cavity of the body and it was a bit awful.

But nevertheless, Here's the output sound from the new pickups: recorded using the input line from my PC, no effects just plain PC audio amp.

Bridge:
http://www.realphotography.net/bridge.wav

Neck:

http://www.realphotography.net/neck.wav

Both:

http://www.realphotography.net/both.wav

 

[jbarks]

strung with flats?

 

[garyreal]

SX Jazz modified

strung with flats?

Nope, just the regular round wound strings.. :mrgreen:

 

[drumandbass]

The bridge pickup does not seem to be placed properly.

Note the E-string. It's way off the axis of the pole pieces.

 

[garyreal]

SX Jazz modified

The bridge pickup does not seem to be placed properly.

Note the E-string. It's way off the axis of the pole pieces.

It is the G string that is not in the correct axis, it is the least i could do as the cavity of the SX is awfully routed... actually, the bass have a lot of flaws out of the factory settings... im glad that it was sounding way much better than its stock condition.