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bass pick ups

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  • #2
    unclebill98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭unclebill98


    raindog.promo wrote: »
    Exhibit A
    http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0190660705
    Noiseless jazz bass PU

    Exhibit B
    http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0138300357
    Vintage P Bass PU

    Does anyone know the benefits / differences of the different pick up types / positions?

    Are there pros and cons to each?

    Different tones. No real pros or cons its just about the tone.


  • #3
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    The Jazz bass is probably the greatest design there has ever been. They're two single coil pickups and, using the volume control for each one, you can blend in any amount of one pickup or the other. You'll always be able to find a sound that will work with any style of music with a Jazz bass. Being single coil pickups they can be prone to noise unless both pickups are on, but in my experience, times when this will be a problem are few and far between.

    The P is a different sound, not worse, just different. It is a more limited instrument, but if you think of that old, fat motown sound or, on the other end of the scale, the bright growly sound of the JJ Burnell with the Stranglers, there is a huge range of sound you can get from them depending on how you play them. They're two separate single coil pickups wired together which cancel noise.

    The one you've linked to is the Hoppus signature, which doesn't have a tone control and, therefore, is pretty restricted. The American Standard P would be a better bet. It's only a tone control but you'd be amazed how important it becomes to the sound when you've only one pickup :)

    Either way, it's safe to say most of the music you've ever heard was recorded using one or the other of those pickup designs


  • #4
    Darkstrike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Darkstrike


    Yup, the Doc. summed it up perfectly, though I have little use for tone controls, so I'd have no problem with the Hoppus.


  • #5
    raindog.promo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭raindog.promo


    Doctor J wrote: »
    The one you've linked to is the Hoppus signature, which doesn't have a tone control and, therefore, is pretty restricted.

    Many thanks Doctor J. After hearing many recommendations, I have decided to get a mexican jazz bass. Just looking at the catalogue there was a 50's style classic jazz bass with the pick ups of the one above, I couldn't find a picture of it though which is why I had that hoppus sig as a link.

    Specimen A however is a fecking beauty and the one I want. Just wanted to know if there was much difference between the pickups. And the replies I have received are much appreciated.

    Kudos to all!


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