
Originally Posted by
Simon Barden
On a Jazzmaster, the right pickups are key to the sound. I upgraded a mate's MIJ Jazzmaster from the stock Jap pickups to USA ones and the change in sound was immense. The Jap ones were basically Strat-type pickups (relatively small deep coils) in a big plastic case, but the USA ones were more like a P-90, with much wider and thinner (depth-wise) and sounded so much deeper as a result. Any pickups that follow the same pattern should be in the same ball-park sound-wise, so I hope those GFS ones do the job.