Wax potting microphonic vintage Fender Jazz bass pickups
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- Trying to cure mechanical noises from the pickups by waxpotting the vintage pickups with a blend of 1/5 beeswax and 4/5 paraffin. Before and after soundclips to investigate the effect on the overall character of the bass.
Please note: to be on the safe side stick to 70℃ (160°F)
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0:00 Intro
0:43 Problems with noisy pickups
1:41 Microphonics
4:30 The wax potting
5:40 The sound after the wax potting
10:03 Before - After soundclips
11:34 Conclusion - Hudba
Oh man I just found your channel because of the capacitor video. Just went through and watched the speaker and now this video. You need more subs.
Thanks Jasper. Definitely helping me out. I'm having this happen on an early Pbass. No potting and absolutely no foam I discovered. I'm gonna try foam first and work my way forward until the sound is ideal. I am intending on keeping this bass so I may pot the pick ups if the foam isn't enough or I may swap out to vintage like pickups and that way I can continue the process and save the I integrity of the bass for historical reasons.
Good words from you and fare warnings⚠️ about resale and if it ain't broke don't fix. You done well here.
Thanks
Mark
Really glad to hear. It totally helped my Jazzbass. I've got a 79 one too that's almost unuseable when you have your hand anchored on the pickup at least. So much rattling noises etc. I'm going to do that one too. I think you already compromise integrity if you unsolder the pickups anyhow, so my gutfeeling says: wax the suckers!
It didnt just chnge the treble response. The slaps are rounder sounding after potting. what I mean is that it sounded like the 90-120 hrz is already scooped and the 50hrz is mor pronounced after potting. Will help a lot in dense mix leaving more space for other instruments. but for a trio set up might be too much space. Soundes more modern now. But that may be the real sound when the bass was made.
I think it’s more focused yes. If anything: totally positive for sure. And the touching noises are completely gone. It came to a point where you could hardly record decently with it.
listening with decent headphones, the tone seems very slightly less trebly with the wax... the fundemental tone is still solid. the potting will help preserve the pickup so still worth doing. thanks for posting! great sounding bass
Thanks! It's been almost a year ago now: it's still a 100% improvement and no alteration of the basic character of the instrument. Effect on the highs is not noticeable in daily use. Totally happy.
Jasper I just watched your old videos about the .1 µF capacitors. I wouldn't modify a vintage bass but do you think it would be feasible to wire a three way toggle switch and use three different sizes of capacitor? Then you could switch between them to have varying tones. A jazz bass probably doesn't have enough volume in the cutout but a p-bass might.
I've had responses from people who had done just that. I think that would be doable also in a Jazz bass. For the Jazz bass first thing would be to put in a stacked knob configuration with different values for the front and back pickup though.
Sweet bass! Out of curiosity, how long have you owned it?
Wow. Like 25 years or something?