Description
DiMarzio Model J™ pickups reproduce the warmth and roundness of the traditional Fender® Jazz Bass® sound with increased power and hum-cancellation. The additional power translates into a bigger sound that emphasizes the resonant character of the instrument. The DiMarzio Model J™ pickup’s sensitivity and deep tone are also the perfect complement to fretless basses. Double-stop glissandos and delicate violin-style vibrato speak with a classic, woody voice simply by backing off slightly on the tone control. For an even more varied choice of tones, pair a bridge position DiMarzio Model J™ with a DiMarzio Model P® pickup. The warm, fat tone of the DiMarzio Model P® plus the tight punch of the DiMarzio Model J™ open up the sound of any bass.
Unlike traditional Js, each Model Jâ„¢ is individually humbucking. It’s not a stack: each coil picks up one pair of strings. By doing it this way, we keep the resistance down, and the tone clean and clear.
Recommended for neck and bridge positions. The DiMarzio Model Jâ„¢ was designed to fit the original Fender Jazz Bass, which has neck and bridge pickup cavities of two different sizes. Some current basses use the same length pickup in both positions. The DiMarzio Model Jâ„¢ set, DP123, consists of two pickups of different lengths, with the neck pickup shorter than the bridge pickup.
Features
- Increased power and hum-cancellation
- Warmth and roundness
- 4 Conductor
- Ceramic magnet
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6.82 Kohm resistance
- Output: 150
- Bass: 6.0
- Middle: 5.0
- Treble: 4.0
Item shown: DiMarzio DP123BK Model J Bass Neck/Bridge Pickup Set
Model #: DP123BK
UPC:Â 663334004764
Kevin Godin (verified buyer) –
I do like the sound of these. Replaced a stock jazz set from a kit I got off a European site.
They are warm and vintage sounding, but not in the way like Fender picksups are.
Definitely look up a few review videos before getting them.
laross (verified buyer) –
These are the solution for Jazz basses with vintage-spec 7.25 inch radius fingerboards. Typical J-bass pickups are flat and have uneven string to string volume balance. The middle two strings (A & D) are too far away from the stock pickups’ polepieces and are always too quiet in comparison to the outside E & G strings. The Dimarzio pickups’ adjustable polepieces actually do work and you can set each string volume much more evenly. The installation was straightforward but, these Dimarzios are a fair bit taller that the stock Fender units. Getting them set a reasonable distance from the strings (not too close) takes a bit of work because they’ll only go so deep into the cavity routes before bottoming out. The only issue I encountered was having the adjustable polepiece screws that protrude from the underside of the pickup crush against the pickup wiring leads causing a dead short with no output! I had to carefully “weave” the wires along the sides of the pickup to prevent this. So…. a bit fussy at first, but they sound great, have even string balance, and are humbucking so you can use either pickup position solo’d without noise.