Selling Jazz bass pickups Tonerider Jazz Plus

[fender3x]

I had a set of DiMarzio J's at one point. I had them on a fretted 34" scale bass. I liked them OK, but I am not sure I'd trade the tone you are getting from the Toneriders for them.

I had my DiMarzios on one of the first basses I ever tried to mod. One thing I really loved about them was that customer support at DiMarzio would send me custom wiring diagrams for anything I wanted to do with them. I wanted to have a Volume-Blend-Tone setup with a push-pull switches on the tone and volume controls to do series-parallel. They drew me up a special wiring chart that to do it.

[FaustoB]

I had a set of DiMarzio J's at one point. I had them on a fretted 34" scale bass. I liked them OK, but I am not sure I'd trade the tone you are getting from the Toneriders for them.

I had my DiMarzios on one of the first basses I ever tried to mod. One thing I really loved about them was that customer support at DiMarzio would send me custom wiring diagrams for anything I wanted to do with them. I wanted to have a Volume-Blend-Tone setup with a push-pull switches on the tone and volume controls to do series-parallel. They drew me up a special wiring chart that to do it.

I wasn't expecting that me try to sell these pickups would spark such a debate!

Thank you so much fender3x for sharing your experience with the Dimarzio J and the custom wiring diagrams. Very interesting!

In my opinion a comparison between pickups is not absolute (ie pickup XYZ is better than pickup ABC), but instead it depends on so many factors (type of instrument, style of playing, amplification, effects, type of strings, genre of music played, personal taste, sonic context with other musicians...).

I am not a huge expert in terms of pick ups, I judge with my hobbyist ears primarily, but in my experience with strings for example, sometimes a set of strings might sound great on a certain instrument, and just sound not right or average on another.