Description
Some pickups chase modern clarity — this one chases the soul of a real ’60s J Bass. Seymour Duncan built the Antiquity II Jazz Bass neck pickup to match the specs and character of mid-1960s production units, drawing on the same winding approach used to rework Jaco’s own pickups back in the early ’80s. That’s not marketing talk — it’s the actual lineage behind this coil.
What you get is a neck pickup with just enough output and top-end sparkle to stay articulate, but never so hot or bright that it turns thin or harsh under your fingers. It sits in that sweet spot vintage Jazz Basses are famous for: woody, warm, with a bark that cuts through a mix without fighting the bridge pickup for space. If you’re chasing that classic thump-and-growl low end for R&B, funk, or straight-ahead rock, this is built for exactly that job.
Calibrated as a set with its bridge counterpart, this neck unit carries a raised top-and-bottom magnet pattern and mounts by screwing directly into the body cavity — no separate pickguard-mounted hardware to fuss with on install day.
- DC resistance: 8.97K ohms
- Inductance: 4.25 henries
- Q: 2.79 (neck)
- Magnet polarity: north (neck)
- Pickup length: 3.492″ / width: .628″ / height: .695″
- Cover length: 3.602″ / width: .718″ / height: .750″
- Calibrated set, height adjustment via body cavity screws
For bass players who want their instrument to sound like it’s been on the road for fifty years, without actually waiting fifty years.
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