keith.rogers
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As [MENTION=185883]RFR[/MENTION] and others have pointed out, Jazz bass pickups are noisy - by design you could say. In most uses the noise is tolerable, gets covered up in the mix, or can be suppressed.Will try to look/search around!
So, as you meant, it perhaps the pickup problem?
The only pickup that will solve your problem is to get a "noiseless" pickup, which will be a humbucking design inside a JB shell. You would need to replace both pickups and it will sound different. (Or get a Precision bass, of course.)
I'd be more bothered with the kind of noise that's present, because it means you have something generating noise in your equipment/room/studio/house that's getting into your signal path. That problem just keeps getting ignored.
I'm not saying you should never change pickups - I actually put noiseless pickups in my JB because I just didn't like even a little noise. But, that 1k noise is not typical IMO. You can change the bass pickups, but I'd be afraid that noise will come back with something else.