Bartolini 'Original Bass' Dual In-Line Humcancelling Pickups

These pickups are split coil hum-cancelling designs - think of them as a "P-Bass pair in a J-Bass box". These are wound to yield more "growl" from the Bridge pickup. They are very similar to Bartolini’s old 94J pickups, just ever so slightly brighter at the bridge. These have stronger lows and low mids than the typical "vintage" tone. The original Bartolini design gives you the timeless tone that started it all – full and warm for that vintage voice you've been craving, enhancing the natural voice of your bass. With dual inline hum-cancelling coil designs, you'll find all the depth of tone you need right here. Original Barts bring out your voice, low and clear. Back in the early ‘70s, Bill Bartolini started developing upgrade pickups for professional musicians. With the new popularity of Jazz basses, their limitations for use in the studio made many professional bass players come to Bartolini for help. As a physicist and acoustic guitar luthier, he leveraged his deep knowledge of acoustics to create pickups that produce the most natural, musical voice from the instrument. He added shielding to block radio signals and noise. He developed a method of sealing, isolating, and stabilizing the coils so they could be encapsulated in epoxy to eliminate “microphonics” – the nasty noise you get when you touch typical pickups. For a long time, we didn’t really have a name for this series because they were our only series. They were just “our bass pickups”. We’ve heard them called by many names like “Deep Tones”, “Old-School”, and “The Best Bass Pickup Ever”. Bartolini Original is a good summary name, we think. Available to fit 4 string Standard and 5 string Standard and American Standard cavities in all the normal and less-normal configurations.

9 Jazz L/S (Long/Short) – 9J1 L/S, 59J1 L/S, 69J1 L/S, “4 String” size

• The 9J1 L/S fits the vast majority of Fender and “Fender Style” 4 string Jazz Basses requiring one long and one short J style pickups
• The 59J1 L/S fits many non-Fender “Fender Style” 5 string Jazz Basses requiring one long and one short J style pickups
• The 69J1 L/S fits extremely tight spaced 6 string basses such as Carvin requiring one long and one short J style pickups
• Pickup Length: Bridge 95mm (3.73”) Neck 91mm (3.60”)
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9 Jazz S/SB (Short/Short Bridge) - 9J1 S/SB, Two “4 String neck” size

• The 9J1 S/SB fits Made in Mexico 4 string Fender Jazz Basses that have two short J pickups.
• This is a true set, where the bridge and neck are wound to match. This is not two neck pickups.
• Pickup Length: Bridge 91mm (3.60”) Neck 91mm (3.60”)
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9 Jazz L/LN (Long/Long Neck) - 9J1 L/LN, 59J1 L/LN, 69J1 L/LN, Two “4 String bridge” size

• The 9J1 L/LN fits 4 string basses requiring two long J style pickups
• The 59 J1 L/LN fits 5 string non-Fender Jazz style Basses requiring two long J style pickup *Note: String spacing over the neck pickup should be 64mm or larger. If not, there may be dropout on the D string. If your string spacing is less than 64mm, consider using a single coil pickup instead.
• The 69 J1 L/LN fits extremely narrow spaced 6 string basses most commonly for Carvin.
• This is a true set, where the bridge and neck are wound to match. This is not two bridge pickups.
• Pickup Length: Bridge 95mm (3.73”) Neck 95mm (3.73”)
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57 Jazz L/S (Long/Short) – 59J1 L/S “American Standard 5 String”

• The 57J1 L/S fits Fender USA and many imported 5 string Jazz Style basses requiring one long and one short pickups in the “American Standard’ Size
• Pickup Length: Bridge 105.03mm (4.14") Neck 101.6mm (4.00")
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Please Note:Bartolini does not supply screws with their pickups. If you require pickup screws, we carry them on our pickup screws page.

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