MJ-4 With Quiet Pickups

[hunt]

Hi,

Looking for anyone who has a MJ-4 circa 2012-14. I picked one up a few weeks ago and while I really like it I find the active pickups are very quiet when compared to my passive basses. If I plug into my MarkBass the clip light turns on at about 1/2 gain on most passive basses I've tried with it. With the MJ-4 I can max the gain and it still doesn’t indicate clipping! I would expect the active pickups to start clipping on a far lower gain setting. I have tried new batteries, full bridge and neck selection along with turning all 3 eq's all the way up. The bass volume changes, but only slightly, say 25% increase past just audible. Is this just normal for the MJ-4 active pickups or do I have a problem. As it stands it feels like the dynamic are greatly hindered in its current state, but the overall tone is excellent.

Cheers,
JJH

[Craig]

Hi,

Looking for anyone who has a MJ-4 circa 2012-14. I picked one up a few weeks ago and while I really like it I find the active pickups are very quiet when compared to my passive basses. If I plug into my MarkBass the clip light turns on at about 1/2 gain on most passive basses I've tried with it. With the MJ-4 I can max the gain and it still doesn’t indicate clipping! I would expect the active pickups to start clipping on a far lower gain setting. I have tried new batteries, full bridge and neck selection along with turning all 3 eq's all the way up. The bass volume changes, but only slightly, say 25% increase past just audible. Is this just normal for the MJ-4 active pickups or do I have a problem. As it stands it feels like the dynamic are greatly hindered in its current state, but the overall tone is excellent.

Cheers,
JJH

You might try the bassesbyleo.com forum for some comments.

Hope this helps.