Special J.Casady

The original Electar® pickup is characterized by very dark sounds and it is tremendously big and lacking in high frequencies, not versatile and unsuitable for modern amps. We designed a humbucker replacement perfectly fit for the cavity and for the original ring without modifying the instrument. Warm and powerful tone just like the original one but more complete and balanced in all frequencies. Dynamic and transparent, ideal for a semi-acoustic bass. In order to make our pickup working at its best, we recommend to replace the potentiometers and exclude the original circuit because it is designed for very low impedances. We offer 3 different wiring options and all components are available:

a) 250K CTS volume pot + 250K CTS tone pot + .047uF 400V Sprague Orange Drop capacitor, by excluding the rotary switch.

b) 250K CTS volume pot + 250K Bourns tone push-pull pot (pickup split) + .047uF 400V Sprague Orange Drop capacitor, by excluding the rotary switch.

c) 250K CTS volume pot + 250K CTS tone pot + 1 .047uF 400V Sprague Orange Drop capacitor, by using the original rotary switch for series/split/parallel mode.

Alnico 5
8.5K