Adding a bass pickup

[Singh]

I want to route a jazz pickup in my SX Precision style bass. Anyone who has experiance doing this, can you please provide me with a tutorial or something similar. I want it to be cosmetically good too, and how would i be able to switch between pick-ups?

Also if anyones selling a set of Jpickups i'd love to buy it.

[hartke20g]

http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/body.htm
you need a router (pictured right after making the contours) and have to route the pickup cavities just big enough for the pickup and nothing more. look at jazz basses for example.

[Singh]

Also, which would be better, a P/J or a P/MM style pickup?

[the101er]

P/MM, it's meaty :naughty:

[bass&cookies]

+1 P/MM, especially if you can put the MM in the "sweetspot"

[hartke20g]

+1 to the MM being meatier.
TS, if you want a thick + deep sound (mc cartney for example), use an MM. for things like wooten of hamm use a J.

[Singh]

I'm gonna go with the MM, i picked up bass for the funk and the deep, meaty tone.
Where exactly is the sweetspot? (how far from the bridge?) Also, in the MM pickup are there 2 pickups or just one? How would i be able to switch between P/MM