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Originally Posted by edgebass5
^^^That being said, I don't really care for Ibanez either. Not saying that basses made in Korea are bad, but a better analogy would have been, assembly line versus hand-built.
My disdain of MEC pickups is that they simply sound dead/lifeless to me. The bottom end was marginal, the top end was a bit lacking in that they didn't have the "bite" that I like to come from treble frequencies and the mids were a bit over pronounced (likely to make up for the lack of a strong bottom and top). This has been present on their J style pups and their MM style pups (I haven't tried the soapbar variety yet, but think I would find similar results). When I switched out the MEC's with DiMarzio's in my Corvette I was blown away, it was like night and day. The output was quite a bit lower than the DiMarzio's as well.... All things aside I suppose I should include "IMO" at the end of my appraisal of MEC....
A bit off topic, your website is coming along, I haven't had much of a chance to work on it with the holidays and all, but I'll hopefully have a first draft for you by the end of the week!
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I understand about the web site.
Finally, another one here that's not an Ibanez lover.
Maybe MEC changed a bit. My FNA was made in 2004, and I actually found the pickups to be very well ballanced and quite loud. I know they used to get a lot of bad reps, but maybe they took that to heart and changed.
