[loktide]

i personally wouldn't go with duncan in basswood for all the aforementioned reasons.

Anyway, the best dimarzio i've heard on an ibby 7 is the Evo7.

Otherwise, if you got the money i'm sure BKPs or lundgrens are great, too.

[EdgeCrusher]

As one of the few people to have actually owned the JB7/Jazz7 combo in a basswood Ibby, I must say that its not quite as bad as people make it out be. The body wood isn't going to change the tonal characteristics of the pickups 180 degrees, it will just enhance or detract certain frequencies (ok, mostly detract w/ basswood ), but they will still sound like Duncans.

While its certainly not the best choice, especially for metal, the JB and Jazz produced a very fat, warm, singing tone in my 7621. Once I raised the pole pieces on the low B string of the JB, thanks to Noodles' recommendation, it tightend up the low string and got rid of most of the flubbiness. Still not as tight as most Dimarzios, but it was good for a hard rock sound ala Tool, excelled for singing leads, and the cleans were amazing, some of the best I've heard.
Both me and my bandmate at the time preffered the JB and Jazz to the Blaze's in his Universe. The blaze's were tighter, but very bland and sterile sounding in comparison. I did end up replacing the Duncans with the DS7/AN7 combo, but I do miss that sweet Alnico V goodness sometimes.

[Randomist]

I'm going to start by saying i have no experience of SD's in basswood, but i happen to have a question that might open up another option to the threadstarter: How well do Swineshead Pickups work with basswood?

If you're in the UK, then you can pick these up for the same price or less than SD's and they're hand wound, I hear the materials that aren't tone related aren't as good as BKP, but still good, and if they don't affect tone, no problem to me. The components that do affrect tone are good from what i hear. I'm mainly asking because i want to try some in my RG.

you have to go direct through swineshead pickups' website though