Fender VS B-Art Jazz Pickups | Alnico, Neo, Ceramic

All information about the video and the pickups follows below ↓ ↓ ↓
Bass used in this test:
Fender American Standard 1999.
Recording chain:
Bass - JDI D.I. - Focusrite 2i2 - D.A.W. (straight - no plugins)
00:23 Both Pickups - Tone Open
02:56 Both Pickups - Tone Open / Pick
03:54 Both Pickups - Tone 50%
05:14 Both Pickups - Tone Open / Slap
06:22 Bridge Pickup - Tone Open
07:33 Bridge Pickup - Tone 50%
08:48 Neck Pickup - Tone Open
10:01Neck Pickup - Tone Closed
Pickups:
Fender Original Pure Vintage 62 Jazz Bass Pickups
Magnets - Alnico 2
Neck: 7.25K
Bridge: 7.5K
B-Art J4AL - ALNICO L Series
Magnets - Alnico 5 USA
Bobins - USA Fiber
Heavy formvar awg 42 wire
Neck: 7.7K
Bridge: 8.7K
B-Art J4ND - NEODYMIUM
Blade core
Heavy formvar awg 42 wire
Shielded, Epoxy vacuum filled
Neck: 7.3K
Bridge: 8.0K
B-Art J4FE - CERAMIC (Ferrite)
Ferrite Core Blade
Shielded, Epoxy vacuum filled
Heavy formvar custom specs wire
Neck: 7.2K
Bridge: 9.3K
B-Art pickups & electronics (Bass Articulation)
Custom Hand Wound pickups from independent builder Vanja Vojinovic from Bogatic-Serbia.
All parts custom made.
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[@raytar84]

Great work, great playing!

[@ObraBass]

Thanks :)

[@juanarocho973]

I’ve been playing for over 35 years semiprofessional and with your eyes closed I couldn’t notice any difference between all pickups!!!

[@ObraBass]

That's cool. It means B-Art are not bad 🙂

[@andreaperelli5323]

lol

[@jonathanchevallier7046]

Thank you for this great comparison. All of this pickups are slightly different. Hard to choose, but maybe I would go to the alnico or the fender and maybe the neo one.

[@ObraBass]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@luigi.zanini]

Great job!!
I prefer the neodynium and ceramic sound, they are fuller and deeper, and it’s not a surprise for me…the same thing on a Stingray bass

[@ObraBass]

Thanks, I agree :)

[@Peter-Alexander]

Maybe I'm a bit of a conservative guy but I think the Fender Original sounds just awsome.😊

[@stevebadachmusic]

I thought so as well. I think they are my preference out of all of these options.

[@outermarker5801]

Honestly, as a lifelong bass player, I never understood tone chasing via pickups, especially on a bass. Any of these options can sound like the other with EQ, they all sound great, and any distinctions typically disappear in a live or recorded mix anyway.

[@rogersgonc]

Yeah, all of them slightly different, but cool in the same way. For the tunes I heard I'd go with originals, B alnico, and B Ceramic... maybe with more metal or "modern" tones those B neodymium... I don't know. All sound great!
Regards from Brazil!

[@Buckers2202]

Another great video! Those B-Art alnico pickups sound wonderful, they'd be my choice 👍

[@ObraBass]

Thanks 👍

[@VeitLehmann]

I feel like moving from Fender to B-Art AlNiCo to B-Art Neo to B-Art Ceramic, the sound gets less characterful and more modern/Hi-Fi. And all three B-Art pickups are closer together in sound, the stock Fender pickups stand out the most. I would have thought that magnet material made a much bigger difference. But maybe other aspects, like how hot the pickups are wound, and with which type of wire, or whatever else is different in construction, has a bigger impact on sound.

[@ObraBass]

Thanks for your comment. There are some specs in the text below the video. However, there is a lot of other specs I do not know, but I can ask the guy who produce B-Art pickups. He is a tech genius!

[@karlsonkab51]

alnico seemed "soft" ceramic better, neo - perhaps clearest but not better in "tone" than ceramic - so is it a matter of gauss ?

[@ObraBass]

Sorry for a late response. All the technical data You can ask B-Art pickups & electronics at [e-mail]