G&L tech resources: Pickups

 
 

The M-2000 and M-2500 basses, introduced in 2011, merely have 2 Magnetic Field Design bass humbuckers voiced to optimize the use of the 18V Active System. When the MJ-4 and MJ-5 basses were introduced in 2013 with the same BEQ3 (Rev. 1.0) preamp under the covers, one might have expected the JB/JB-2 Alnico V pickup to undergo a similar treatment. However, the JB/JB-2 Alnico V is a single-coil pickup and not very suitable for that purpose due to its inherent noisiness. Hence the new Bi-coil Alnico pickup humbucker was designed, a non-MFD pickup using 2-coils within the footprint of a traditional J-bass style pickup, each having only a slightly higher DC-R value than their none Bi-coil brethren. Apparently there is enough string spacing such that the 2 adjacent coils do not create a weaker response for the A- and the D-strings. The MJ-4 and MJ-5 were discontinued on the January 25, 2018 price list.

 

Bass: Bi-coil Alnico