BARTOLINI 9S-L 4 string Jazz Bass Bridge Pickup

Product Description

Original Single Coil J-Bass

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 these true single coil designs, you’ll find all the depth of tone you need right here. If you are looking for bottomless bass, they’re also available in our deep voicing (ST) single coil incarnation. 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 many pickups.

The lengths of the neck and bridge pickups in the original J-basses are not equal. The neck pickup is 3-5/8″ long which is slightly shorter than the bridge pickup which is 3-3/4″ long. Some modern designs, however, use two ‘long’ bridge-length pickups. In this configuration it is important to use the “LN” (long neck) pickup that is specifically designed to work in this position (do not use a bridge pickup in the neck position). Some (very few) use two ‘short’ neck length pickups. Please check the physical size of the pickups you want to replace to make sure the replacements fit properly.

Additional Information

Bass Guitar

4-string

Pickup Shape

Standard J Bass

Pickup Series

Original Bass

Coil Type

Single Coil

Width (inches/mm)

0.73 / 18.42 (ears not incl.)

Tone Description

Deepest tone