Description
If you love the growl of a Jazz bass but can’t stand the 60-cycle hum creeping in on stage or in the studio, the Suhr Classic J Humphrey neck pickup is the fix. It’s a stacked-coil design engineered specifically to work with an active Classic J 2-band preamp setup, giving you a much cleaner signal-to-noise ratio than a traditional single coil without losing that woody, acoustic resonance a Jazz bass is known for.
- Stacked noiseless design for quiet performance under stage lights and hot amp gain
- Matched to work with Suhr’s active Classic J 2-band bass preamp
- DC Resistance: 7.9K ohms (Humphrey neck position)
- Neck position placement — pairs with a Humphrey bridge pickup for a full, balanced voice
Tonally, this pickup covers a lot of ground. Dial it in for warm, thumping fingerstyle tones with the neck pickup soloed, or blend it with the bridge for that classic scooped Jazz honk. Because the hum cancellation is built into the coil structure rather than bolted on as an afterthought, you get the noise rejection without the tonal compromise that plagues a lot of noiseless retrofits — this still sounds like a Jazz bass, just quieter.
Built for players who gig hard and record often, this pickup is a direct upgrade path for Suhr Classic J basses or any Jazz-style bass in that design family looking for hi-fi clarity paired with old-school warmth.
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