Fender Jazz bass bridge pickup spacing

[Jess Band-ee-Coot]

I noticed the bridge pickup is closer to the bridge on Fender 70's jazz
basses vs. 60's jazz basses. Is this part of that "Marcus Miller" tone?
Anyone know the exact spec and what year it changed?

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[js]

That sounds like a TalkBass question. Except you'll get banned for saying
"Fender"...

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[Lasse W. Wehner]

It changed in 1970/71 and went back to normal in the early eighties.

Up to 1970, the distance between the pickups was 3.6" (measured from the
middle point of the pickups), and in the seventies the distance was raised
to 4.0", and it was the the bridge pickup that was moved 0.4" towards the
bridge. Since Miller's famous Jazz is a '77, this is one small ingredient of
his sound.

You probably have some weird imperial measurement system number for the 0.4"
though :)

/Lasse
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