Jazzmaster Pups - upgrade

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Jazzmaster Pups - upgrade

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Been thinking of upgrading my CIJ pups for ages now, seem to be shit loads of options out there AVRI various Seymour Duncans & Cutis Novaks to name few. I'd be interested to hear your suggestions, basically I'm looking for something inbetween the originals & the more contempory/hot seymour duncans. My mate has an original JM from 59 which sounds a bit dark & wooly to me & some of the SD's sound a bit too much rock for my taste, what would you guys suggest as a happy medium somewhere in the middle? I'm fairly happy with the stock pups although i'd like a little more volume & characther from them.

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AVRIs are fine.
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That's what I was thinking. AV jazzer pickups sound great.
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Johno wrote:Been thinking of upgrading my CIJ pups for ages now, seem to be shit loads of options out there AVRI various Seymour Duncans & Cutis Novaks to name few. I'd be interested to hear your suggestions, basically I'm looking for something inbetween the originals & the more contempory/hot seymour duncans. My mate has an original JM from 59 which sounds a bit dark & wooly to me & some of the SD's sound a bit too much rock for my taste, what would you guys suggest as a happy medium somewhere in the middle? I'm fairly happy with the stock pups although i'd like a little more volume & characther from them.

cheers
I've got a made in Japan Jazzmaster and have had it for about 12 years. Having recently returned to playing guitar I decided to upgrade the pups and went for the Seymour Duncan Hot SJM-2 on the neck and the SJM-3 Quarter Pound on the bridge. Boy what a difference. Can be mellow when required and kick ass when required.

My local guitar store did the upgrade for me and when I picked it up they commented that they thought it wiped the floor with the Jazzmasters they had in stock.

I've not been disappointed.

Finally, when I was trying to decide which pickups to go for I came across a Jazzmaster playing guy on Youtube who has several Jazzmasters with different pickups. Here's one of his clips...check him out it might help...
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Post by Fran »

If you like the vintage sound then try Antiquities. Novaks are an alternative, but one of them is a 'bucker mounted on a Jazzy plate so avoid that if you dont want rawk tones. SD QP's are pretty good as they are noiseless single coils with some balls, so you wont lose the Jazzy character.
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My favs and I have tried a few. Are the SD Antiquity II's
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