J4 Soapbar Multi-coil Pickups
PRICE. £150 per single pickup
PRICE. £280 per pickup pair
A multi-coil replacement for 2 popular Soap bar types. Designed to replace Factory pickups of B4 / Bc4 type & Bart Mk 1 & 2. Both Our J4 multi-coil types have identical internals, only the cover is different allowing for use on many popular Bass Guitars & Custom builds.
The J4 standard has a footprint of 108mm X 34mm, while the J4 mini has a footprint of 100mm X 29mm. Both these J4 types require a pickup cavity depth of 25mm to fit as the internal technology sits deeper in an instrument than a standard factory Soap bar unit. The trade-off for the deeper cavity is a sweeter tone, characteristic of all the multi-coil pickups we produce, with precise tonal definition & a pickup that is almost silent in operation due to the extra Earth shielding. As with our Popular 8 & 10 coil units, we have built the J4 Soap bar pickup in 4 very different output types.
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Type 1.
4 Coil Pseudo single coil, basically 4 coils wired in series for a clear & open tone associated with single coil pickups.
Type 2.
4 coil Humbucker, with coil split for series / parallel wiring options or direct output to connect to existing Bass preamps with a simple 2 wire hook-up.
Type 3.
4 coil, 1 Single coil per string for use with Lusithand's NFP special pre-amps to give a mind bending expansion of Tonal possibilities.
Type 4.
8 coil. 1 Humbucker per string (over 2 pickups, interconnected), Also for use with a Lusithand NFP special pre-amp & other coil balancing pre-amps. The 1 humbucker per string / NFP special set-up gives a similar output as type 3 but with the Fat Humbucking output.
Type 1 & 2 above can be used both passively or via a regular type pre-amp while types 3 & 4 cannot be used passively & require a special coil balancing pre-amp to use on your Instrument.
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SPEC.
Neodymium rare earth Magnets.
4 coils, individually Hand scatter wound with 42 AWG plain Enamel wire.
8-11K.Ohm output D.C per pickup
(please contact for other output options)
Full earth shielding
5 Point wiring for full Humbucking or 2x pseudo single coil hook up options
Wax saturated (potted) against Microphonic feedback
Standard Coil Magnet polarities: Front: South, Rear: North
Hand-made covers with colour options
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DIMENSIONS.
J4 standard.
Length 108mm Width 34mm
Height 26mm
String spacings up to 60mm
Screw spacings 95mm
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DIMENSIONS.
J4 Mini.
Length 100mm Width 29mm
Height 26mm
String spacings up to 60mm
Screw spacings 90mm
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PRICE. £150 per single pickup
PRICE. £280 per pickup pair
ALL Herrick pickups are supplied with fixing screws & metal coil springs. We strongly advise against using a FOAM type cushioning under our pickups as FOAM can distort or damage the pickup covers we produce & interfere with the pickup's ability to function correctly.