Like some other people, I've found my beautifully-made Yamaha TRBX604 a bit polite for my taste.
The Yamaha blurb says "the YGD designed H5 pickups are defined by a clean, open tone that’s perfectly matched with the flexibility of the active/passive preamp design. Their quad-polepiece design and alnico magnets give them the power to drive the active circuit and the sensitivity and subtlety to capture every nuance in passive mode."
There's no doubt that this instrument can be played very musically.
If someone wanted to replace these sophisticated humbuckers with single coil pickups that make a more obvious, upfront, characterful tone, what would be the possibilities?
I think I've just measured the pickups as being 31mm × 100mm / 1.22" × 3.94"
The preamp is 9V with a 3 band EQ whose mids control is apparently unusually low.
Here is a very musical bassist making the stock pickups sound very much at their best:
The Yamaha blurb says "the YGD designed H5 pickups are defined by a clean, open tone that’s perfectly matched with the flexibility of the active/passive preamp design. Their quad-polepiece design and alnico magnets give them the power to drive the active circuit and the sensitivity and subtlety to capture every nuance in passive mode."
There's no doubt that this instrument can be played very musically.
If someone wanted to replace these sophisticated humbuckers with single coil pickups that make a more obvious, upfront, characterful tone, what would be the possibilities?
I think I've just measured the pickups as being 31mm × 100mm / 1.22" × 3.94"
The preamp is 9V with a 3 band EQ whose mids control is apparently unusually low.
Here is a very musical bassist making the stock pickups sound very much at their best:
