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I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
Bit of trading feedback here.
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I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
Bit of trading feedback here.
Both the SD and EMG set will give you some more of that, but a hand wound set enables you to say exactly what sort of tone you are looking for..
Of course, it can sound ace and it could still be the player (i.e. me) that's making it sound garbage.
I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
Bit of trading feedback here.
The SD QP set are ok - but their biggest problem is the P pickup doesn't sound like a P. t has too much bass and not enough mids. Fine if that is what you want, but it's not a precision sound.
My favourite passive set would be the Aguilar 60s wind set with the humcancelling J. But they are expensive.
EMG-X series is my vote - and they seem to be a bit cheaper than the Geezers too at the moment. Amazingly quiet for recording as well.
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I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
Bit of trading feedback here.
I preferred the geezers to the X’s but that’s personal taste. The Aguilars are good, but I’m not sure I’d recommend them for a cheaper bass - feels like overkill when there’s other good options out there.
Quarter Pounder is a registered trade mark of McDonald's.
My advice to anyone installing a Quarter Pounder™ in a bass guitar is to combine it with a Greasebucket™ tone control.
Impeach Bridgehouse!
Don't expect much, the playing/timing etc is awful but it was just a quick thing to experiment with the bass tones:
I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
Bit of trading feedback here.
I take it you're not a fan of the J Pickup.
I was going to modify it so they were on separate outputs so they could be recorded simultaneously to different tracks and blended in the DAW. Still might but whether it serves a useful purpose is another thing altogether.
I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
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Otherwise the J is a weak, thin-sounding hum generator whose only function is to make the P pickup sound good on its own and bad when combined... just a way to ruin a good P-Bass, basically.
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Fender Custom Shop '62 Precision Bass Pickup (gak.co.uk)
Geezer uses enormous gauge DR Black Beauty strings. (Makes sense for down tuning.) If the outer wraps are stainless steel, that might explain where he gets some of the high frequency detail.
Alnico 5 rod magnet polepieces and 11k is the formula. Elderly flat wound strings complete the picture.
I toy with the idea of combining a P middle pickup with an Oil City Pickups Overkill J. Unfortunately, those pickups would be worth more than my Squier bass.
Then again you might find that every example you find has the same tone problems then you could listen to some other pickups in videos to see which get you where you want.
On the other hand, I'm with ICBM on the P only setting - if you haven't tried turning the bridge pickup all the way down (soloing the P pickup) then try that and you might get there instantly.
I put Wizard 84s in it and fitted a Badass bridge, sounded great. I'd agree with other folks regarding the usefulness of the J bridge pickup though - a good P pickup can get you all the tone you need. I certainly wouldn't go to the trouble of wiring the two pickups to individual outputs as you mentioned.
In my experience, the best way to vary your tone on bass is through right hand technique and picking position. Even on twin pickup instruments I only use one at a time - usually the neck pickup - and just moving your right hand position from the bridge up to the neck gives you huge tonal variation, much more so than on guitar. Between that and the different techniques across fingers and plectrum playing, you can find a tone for any occasion without ever touching the controls or worrying about which pickup you're on.
Seems a bit counter intuitive; I'd have thought the lowest cost basses would omit the J pickup to save even more money.
I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
Bit of trading feedback here.
At the entry level, Squier has to be seen to offer the same features as rival manufacturers such as Yamaha, Cort, JHS/Encore/Vintage and Ibanez/Soundgear.
When I bought my first bass it was a jazz because I foolishly believed people on forums telling me the neck pickup sounded like a p bass.
Years later I love P (and even getting really in to MM) but still trying hard to get in to J.
39 years later I still have it & still play it. Several studio engineers & live sound engineers have commented that it`s the first active bass they ever liked the sound of. So I would go with the EMGs!