AERO PICKUPS - Religious Tone Experience

#204
I have had my new aero jazz type 1 pickups installed for a few days now and I am blown away by what an incredible upgrade they are! The definition! The articulation! The powerful harmonics! Tell you what--I am going to have to improve my string muting skills because these pickups are so sensitive that you practically just have to look at them and they speak.

Customer service was unparalleled as well. Larry took the time to discuss the noise problems I was having before I ordered the aeros. A luthier had advised that I needed new pickups to correct the problem, but in fact it turned out to be grounding and shielding issues, now fixed by a different luthier. Larry knew the problem wasn't with the old pickups and told me so, but I switched to aeros anyway after reading the glowing reviews in this thread. I am so glad! Thanks, all, for sharing your experience.
 
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#206
Hotrhonda, so true! Those pickups are wicked; everything that was promised, and more. Larry is one of the most honest people I have ever interacted with.


PS, in fact I was playing my Fender Aerodyne the other day, acoustically. I dont prefer the amp'd sound so much, its muddy and inarticulate. Like an overdone P bass tone with 20 yr old flats. But acoustically, its heaven. A very nice piece of basswood, articulate and sustain for eternity.

Anyway, I recall Larry saying how FLAT the Aeros are, that you really need to like the instruments acoustic sound, as the Aeros will only bring that out, not color it. Well, the Aerodyne is so sweet sounding, I think it deserves a new set of pickups.

I have no doubt what I will hear. The same woody warmth and sustain, but with articulation and no color.
 
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#207
WoW. I recently picked up a parts bass. Warmoth dinky jazz body with a Sire V7 neck on it. I plugged it in and fell in freaking love with it. The first thing I did when I go it (after playing it) was loosen the cover to confirm there was red under there.
I'm afraid I'm spoiled now. This little bass sounds better than my other jazzs. Fender, US G&L, you name it. I considered putting an Audere pre on it, just cause I love those, but I figured, what's the point..... It already sounds so good. As was said at the beginning of this thread. They sound like you have a nice clean punchy preamp in.
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Skillet said:
WoW. I recently picked up a parts bass. Warmoth dinky jazz body with a Sire V7 neck on it. I plugged it in and fell in freaking love with it. The first thing I did when I go it (after playing it) was loosen the cover to confirm there was red under there.
I'm afraid I'm spoiled now. This little bass sounds better than my other jazzs. Fender, US G&L, you name it. I considered putting an Audere pre on it, just cause I love those, but I figured, what's the point..... It already sounds so good. As was said at the beginning of this thread. They sound like you have a nice clean punchy preamp in.
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Beautiful find! Can't believe you scored a parts bass loaded with Aeros! Congrats
 
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nalapit13 said:
I’ve been dealing with Larry since 2008. He is an amazing human.
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Timely post - was just explaining to one of my guitarists about the AERO pickups. I am still planning on trying out a set on one of my basses but want to get a donor/backup bass to test them in before taking the plunge. I REALLY want to get away from active pickups and batteries.
 
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Das Jugghead said:
Timely post - was just explaining to one of my guitarists about the AERO pickups. I am still planning on trying out a set on one of my basses but want to get a donor/backup bass to test them in before taking the plunge. I REALLY want to get away from active pickups and batteries.
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this bass currently has a custom mike Pope 4 band in it. I never use it and just keep it in passive mode all the time.
 
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#215
Just picked up one of my basses on Monday from Larry at Aero Instrument. He lives up the road from me and replaced the vintage replacement pickups I had with a custom made set of I think type 1’s in my lakland jazz bass 4 (swamp ash/maple). I was looking for a slightly more modern tone like my USA has (laklands new pickups). Anyhow, I have nothing to mention here about Aero pickups that hasn’t been mentioned in this forum already. They are what everyone says they are. Their
amazing and I love them.
 
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#216
Bumping this thread up. I have a P bass being built by Jerome Little that is going to have an ESS pickup in it....can’t wait!!! Wonder why there isn’t more Aero appreciation around here. Larry is an amazing guy, brilliant.
 
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MD-BassPlayer said:
What's an ESS pickup?
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ESS = Exact String Spacing

Check the video post #209 and photo #211

This is a great interview.

“Larry Pollack of Aero Instrument appeared on All About Guitar (LA Talk Radio), Nov 2, 2015. Listen to the pod-cast of his conversation with host Jeff Floro, international bassist David Inamine, and LA studio guitarist Jimmy Hewitt, at, http://www.latalkradio.com/content/all-about-guitar, scroll down to “Show Archives,” “November 2015” and then PLAY or DOWNLOAD the 11/02/2015 show."
 
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#219
Late to the game? Pshaw! Just snagged a set of Aero Type 1 Jazz pickups for my snazzy parts J.
Was going to go with some Fralins (to match w/ the ones in my Mendel sig) but’ve been itching to try Aeros for years now.
Looking forward to installing & sharing my thoughts!
The timing’s pretty great, too. I have a black Hipshot KickAss bridge on its way as well. :bassist:
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