All user reviews for the Crel JBMorph

How long have you use it?

I use these mics for five months


Have you tried many other models before buying it?

some ... ducan the design on squier modified: no potato bad sound
n3 test store on a deluxe usa: good sound, but without characters
and active EMG pickups sound good but a little loud for my taste ...

What is the particular feature you like best and least?

there is nothing to throw in these microphones in electronic or otherwise, it is very well done, for my part I turn my mass bridge that parasitized microphones, a very slight buzz amp background but nothing serious for passive! and then take the silent ...

if the issue is specific round velvety it's body in the grave defined treble and with this system we pass from jb41 to JB42 a favorite knob! this is America after all!.

mounting issue for me it took enlarge my smashes towards placing electronics jbmorph in place.

How would you rate the quality / price?
With experience, you do again this choice? ...

Of course I remake this choice after purchasing a fifteen low to find "THE SOUND" when you fall on these pickups is a bargain you become addicted!

value for money is unbeatable and the service is top.

Ordered early November, I must say that everything was perfect:

Contact telephone super nice, fast shipping, parcel nickel.
Unpacking the kit came to me well finished, quality components, it smells good work!

Removing my JB (tools screwdriver) and setting up microphones and pre-assembled plate. No welding to do not need instructions, a terminal with locating microphones son is very practical.
Everything is perfectly in place at the microphones.

One little tricky, the whole plate pots lacks a little place (the reservation in the wood of the JB at that point is just a little) you have to push a little son on the sides to be built this little world .
With a little patience and skill you get there and once the plate is screwed up strings and guitar tuned, plug the amp and then feverishly ... !!
Since the 70s, I have experienced low ... and amps!

But, in my taste that is only my opinion, I find her a rare quality, incredible accuracy.
Dynamic purity (it is always easy to "dirty" sound necessary), no background noise, very wide palette of sounds feasible saw my bass!

When such work is done in France, it is good to say especially when it exceeds the world's leading manufacturers!

I do not under ... if it is not the price, but such a pleasure to play with such a sound is there a price!

I remake that choice without hesitation, I will also order Crel JB42 microphones for my second bass, fretless JB Mexican.

How long have you been using? => Qq month

Did you try many other models before buying it? => Yes, other low or non-original

What is so special that you like most and least?

Most **: it changes the bof (jazz bass pickups original us) to all, I have never heard of microphones hold a note as long (the night of the test, it was bent with darling because it expected, and we expected the sound of the note did not finish).
The sonic possibilities are extremely varied due to the multiple choice positions knobs pull / push, there is something for everyone, the settings are accurate and sensitive.
Really is not false advertising, you can rush headlong and do not take you hours on cabbage: good then, barto, thing thing, ....



Least **: see below the email sent to Crel about my experience on the installation that is not easy at all except for the fact that there was no welding to do (and as mentioned in another opinion, communication is improving but ...)

Hello,

I received and installed the microphones we last.
The test will be this weekend amp, headphone via my soundcard Presonus is already really good ...

My return to the installation on a 2009 JB us (my personal opinion, I specify):

* Attention, installation is not as easy as that, it takes a bit of detail even though I find the concept very clever
* Jack when inserted touches the edge of the printed circuit board (regardless of the rotation we give, however, everything is properly aligned in the vertical axis)
* Must put volume knobs staggered but the best possible alignment if it does not pass on the edges of the housing
* Diameter rods knobs are smaller than the original so the buttons swim and it is not possible to tighten properly (I got those from my Mexican fluted and there is good)
* Height is not adjustable knobs no or very few due to limited space remaining at the bottom (I used nuts from my old system as a "shim" but there is not much to gain )
* Suddenly we find ourselves with buttons placed super high and it is very very ugly
* The microphone cables are very close to the edge once connected to the terminal, which requires to be very careful under penalty of destruction ...
* We must study the passage of soft cables so they do not go to stay in the knobs (I made a small strand using a rilzan)
* I'm spent 2 hours and I do not do pictures :-(


How do you rate the quality / price? => Just fine.
With experience, you do again this choice? ... => Yes without hesitation on the other hand, we'd like more information and clarity on the website for Crel difficulties during installation (or at least a warning)
The installation goes without a JB smashes but in this particular case should not lose patience and try to work carefully.

I have a Guinea arrowroot Custom77 b-type jazz bass in stock and I asked him a small system jbmorph right in.

then the assembly recommends a dremel to make room in the cage of custom, nothing nasty and a screwdriver for easy connections microphones

So after 5 minutes you plug in the amp, put it straight on and go!

Direct the sound I like in position 41; the tona to 0 is big sound without the high notes but played the thumb on the handle round and it's great even at position 42
I personally played with the tone slightly raised on my bass and the two microphones at position 42 in volume and at noon it sounds very very round and slap their fingers along a treat harmonic and precision
this will be a while since I played with this system and frankly

in value for money this is the bomb
ps this is the second time I am appealing to CRELL to equip a bass pickups and before I had one that sounded the devil warwick 5 string active in a PB51 and jb51
I put the perfect note of is on my personal feeling, but definitely CRELL corresponds to my fingers and my game
bossss thank you again!!! all made in poverty (in France)

First two or three things about me, not by megalomania but rather to frame the objective of my trial, which pleases a métalleu do not like necessarily a jazzeu!
I am a bassist of rock group Afro Funck (concerts, studio etc. ..) and I play on an AMPEG SVT 3 PRO with 410 of the same brand ... I play all the fingers that slap in the ... uh ... and I'm so boring with my sound! I hate above all not the slightest crunch of my bass, I like the clarity of a game in the bottom as in the high ...
It's been a while since I was looking for a new bass for my main warwick corvette bubinga me a little tired ears with this sound typical Germanic ... but I could not find my happiness! fender, musdicman, yamaha, Vigier, etc ...

I went to the idea that my good old warwick I have 6 years now I liked most in ergonomics and playability ...

So I got the idea to change the pickups and electronics (knowing that I hate the MEC preamp in WW, I play passive all the time ...)

I do a lot of research (Aguilar, John East, Delano, Barto, etc ...) and I came across the site CreI and I think in time, I ordered the JB morph ... Explanatory speech spoke as if he had been writing to me in large pickups Fender type pickups roots coupled with more modern type WW.

but better?

A few days later, I received my package ... microphones and editing are a bit packed like fish in the market (it's not very classy !!!). I am also disappointed because I had posted a mail asking for explanations of assembly and nothing, not one word (if the bill!) ... and it lacks a more nut tightening knob (again no school!), the screws to the microphones do not stick, and the socket either ... HUM HUM!

and I start the installation ...
I took the mounting VOL, BAL, TONE and 2 switches.
I drill two small holes for the switches, tac tac, pof pof ... I desoldering the socket (designed for a plate and not a body ..) I give the original a little bit of DREMEL to enlarge the width of micro holes (not much) ... and voila!!

These chapters are essentially all ls negatives because once connected they weep for joy!

The sound is a difficult thing to describe especially when you have nothing to say!
yes, the sound is balanced and harmonious relationship between 5-string .. we hear it all! without frequency pampers ... beautiful depth of low controlled, comfortably seated in the midrange and treble mix or crystalline or spicy, just present ...
To say I did my compressor is more than just that spoils the magic of these pickups!
Compression is natural and just ... I do not know why there ... Mr. Crel??

I have already recorded a pre prod with my last and we ww behaves like a queen in the mix bass drum ... it gives the boot to the big Caise and a superb base group of a general point of view "frequency" ... it is there before making adjustments ...

I am a happy bass player ...

It's been a while since I wanted to improve the sound of my fretless. Side violin is the Chinese choice of a small budget, the mechanics are poor, but the rest is honest. As against the pickups are lousy.
After a long look at what was done as a microphone, I chose the 6-string kit JBMorph CREL.
CREL why this choice?
I listened to samples of micro (from JB41 to JB62, and JBMorph kit) and I like the color of these two types of microphone. The kit offers the JBMorph two colors in the same microphone.
On the other hand, CREL is a small box fans installed in PAU 64, they respond to emails and telephone to explain and find solutions if necessary. We do not find it in Mr. Di, D Seymour or EMG.
I ordered the kit, wiring two push-pull volume + 1 tone, received within 10 days (holidays).
The pickups are simple, the wiring is neat, ready to install. The microphone cables are to be connected to two small screw terminals.
As agreed by telephone with the type CREL, I inserted a volume knob after the tone. Indeed, the two volumes provide a micro scale neck / bridge, and I set the master volume with my knob. I did a test before / after wiring, there is no loss of volume.
For cons, I had to replace the son of the tone knob because of my violin openings are spaced further apart than the standard used by CREL.Ce's OK, buddy soldering iron was there!. I'm sure if I spoke, they would have foreseen this.
I use it recently, but I can already say that it's magic!
The sound is clean, a lot of momentum means everything. The two modes each bring a distinctive sound, I finally deep bass and midrange very bright.
I discovered the potential of the violin with these microphones. The fretless sound is magnificent.
So, I think my amp (Ashdown MAG 300) is not bad at all!.
I just have to play better now ...
It is a view taken from life, not necessarily objective, but I took a slap at the first listening. I'm really pleased with this purchase.

Edit after repeat
I confirm, really good sound.

The two types of sound are well marked, the mix between mic is a plus and the balance between them opens up unexpected sound.

Other instruments are no longer scrambled by the merdiocre I had, all viewing is improved.

And what these dynamic microphones! My fingers brush against the strings to 10%, they murmur 10%, 50% j'enthousiasme, they give 50%, if I send 100%, they also send 100%: it is a feeling of power, a bit like a large capacity, and there is better than the highway!.
I turned my compressor that compresses my old pickups indynamique (had to be invented to describe the original soaps), it was very sad indeed. Well then, I left a little to save the amp, but it is a treat.

I have a second bass, I'll provide the CREL equipped with one of these days ...

Thank you to our team CREL correspondence and patience.

Thank you to all who Audiofanzine's published opinions. It is a useful source of information to help select the gear.

How long have you use it?
Since less than a week, so this is an early notice. The set is installed on my standard V JazzBass USA 2010.

What is so special that you like most and least?
Pros: it's the job. it reminds me of systems humbuckers with coil selector like some Warwick. I installed a similar system based on another Bartos low and I wanted to have the same versatility in my JazzBass. Unless this question falls outside the humbuckers and it's not really a Jazzbass. With these microphones the sound of the Jazzbass is quite respected. Limit is a little disappointing initially becaufe garde sound close to home and you do not feel the difference immediately. Yet when we play as a group we feel much better. The presence and accuracy have increased. In config "fat" fingers I won the growl, low mids and very low frequencies (the so serious is more accurate). In config "light" slap in the treble give more present and yet more percussion notes are easier to hear. Thus ended the "plop" of the strings that affect the studs. I won 4 or 5 dB output level config "fat". About installing it hyperfacile, no need soldering iron. on the other hand I had a few minutes to successfully make everything fit under the plate ... The wiring is super clean and super well insulated, it exudes quality. For delivery is very quick, delivered in 3 days after order.
Cons: The little golden sticker on micro Crel ... I find it very nice ...
The buttons cache knob to almost float 1 cm above the plate in the same position. Brief details. Level background noise and interference have a slight improvement but still a bit yen especially near the computers (it's still the single coil). Another notable point there is a difference in level between the two positions of the coil, it makes sense when you know the system design but it's good to know before buying.

Have you tried many other models before buying it?
Before I had the original pickups that sound good but ultimately lacked the precision and slap that bad. I have a fretless equipped Bartos (not real Mk1 months).

How would you rate the quality / price?
Excellent! 200 euros electronics and high-end microphone pre-wired, no equivalent.

With experience, you do again this choice?
I would say that over time.