Lets see some mm style humbuckers with other pickups

Dubious Aa

Dubious Aa

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Here are a couple of mine.
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I've struggled with these sorts of basses. A neck single coil or P pickup encourages one sort of playing and tends to be shunted closer to the neck so is a bit darker than a stock Fender-type bass. A MM pickup tends to have more output and a taut, compressed tone and attitude. Having both on one instrument was too confusing for me, toggling between a loud bright tone and a far less snappy, quieter and darker tone.
 
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SulzerType2 said:
I've struggled with these sorts of basses. A neck single coil or P pickup encourages one sort of playing and tends to be shunted closer to the neck so is a bit darker than a stock Fender-type bass. A MM pickup tends to have more output and a taut, compressed tone and attitude. Having both on one instrument was too confusing for me, toggling between a loud bright tone and a far less snappy, quieter and darker tone.
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To me the magic often comes from blending the two pickups. I also love having the flexibility of picking different pickups for different settings. 100% neck pickup for vintage-y tones, etc.

Also, in a properly designed bass like this, the two pickups are positioned and selected to compliment eachother, so it's not really like a mix of a bass with only a neck pickup and a bass with only a bridge pickup.
 
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Naigewron said:
To me the magic often comes from blending the two pickups. I also love having the flexibility of picking different pickups for different settings. 100% neck pickup for vintage-y tones, etc.

Also, in a properly designed bass like this, the two pickups are positioned and selected to compliment eachother, so it's not really like a mix of a bass with only a neck pickup and a bass with only a bridge pickup.
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That makes a lot of sense. To be honest the three MM+J basses I had were quite cheap. The ritziest one was a Cort GB74 with a preamp. I should have been blending the pickups a bit more.
 
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Naigewron said:
To me the magic often comes from blending the two pickups. I also love having the flexibility of picking different pickups for different settings. 100% neck pickup for vintage-y tones, etc.

Also, in a properly designed bass like this, the two pickups are positioned and selected to compliment eachother, so it's not really like a mix of a bass with only a neck pickup and a bass with only a bridge pickup.
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Yup, use both pickups together :thumbsup:
To me, the mm has to be in the correct area… centered 3 1/2” from the g saddle.
Any closer to the bridge and you might as well use a J style pickup.
 
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tonym said:
I'd love to hear more about the OLP with the angled jazz pickup. I've though of modding a Stingray short scale to a similar configuration, but I've never seen anything like this.
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Im very impressed with it. It still has the stock humbucker and its passive. Adding the J the way I did was after testing it on another bass i have for testing pickup configurations. I can move them around in a huge cavity I routed out. I was surprised that angle for the J was the way to go (its a bridge Wilkinson that I had lying around). I thought it was going to be the other way.
The added J thickened up the humbucker like I hoped it would. I added a series/parallel switch for the humbucker, it sounds great both ways…. Otherwise it’s volume volume tone for the pots.
I dig it, im thinking of doing a Harley Benton music man knockoff that I have and adding an Audere pre amp, that should be pretty cool!
 
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