Bartolinis

[BlueTalon]

Re: Bartolinis

It's a bad idea because those pickups work in essentially the same way that a p-bass pickup does; one coil picks up the E & A, while the other picks up the D & G. If you were to split it, only half of your strings would produce signal.

You are assuming that I did not want that to happen, and that's what made it a bad idea. Incorrect. The thing that made it a bad idea is that that each coil by itself does not produce a signal strong enough to be usable for what I wanted.

On another note, I really like and prefer a PJ setup, but only with a reversed P as IMO it fixes a lot of the issues with the traditional P alignment. It's true that the P pickup is louder than the J, but with this setup it really isn't a huge issue as it sounds more like a fuller-sounding Jazz than a Traditional Precision anyway. Lastly regarding amplification, I've played the TC amps and Phil Jones cabs, and they're really not my cup of tea. I much prefer an Ampeg through a fEARful. (anyone familiar with Talkbass should know what that is)

Everybody has the right to like what they like, so I don't begrudge anybody their choice of equipment. I will say however that having one pickup significantly louder than another makse a bass tonally less flexible. It might work for you if the bass produces a tone you like, but anyone looking for something different will be limited.

 

[Inflames626]

Re: Bartolinis

dystrust, I think we meant splitting a stacked J, so it would be upper vs. lower coil.

It sounds like the most flexible pup would be a 4 coil 6 connector soapbar. Then you could do all the coil variations plus parallel series, right?

 

[dystrust]

Re: Bartolinis

dystrust, I think we meant splitting a stacked J, so it would be upper vs. lower coil.

It sounds like the most flexible pup would be a 4 coil 6 connector soapbar. Then you could do all the coil variations plus parallel series, right?

Splitting a stacked J works fine, you just need to be sure that the top coil is active in split mode. You can do series / parallel with only 2 coils, and I don't see a reason to have more than 3 coils in any single pickup. That way you could have side-by-side humbucking as well as stacked humbucking and have series / parallel available for both coil configs. Many MM pickups are wired this way. A 4th coil isn't needed IMO as the two coils are close enough together that front coils stacked & rear coils stacked will sound almost identical.

 

[Inflames626]

Re: Bartolinis

I was thinking a quad coil, like this, so you could also emulate a P bass.

http://www.bartolini.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Woo_Quad.png

 

[dystrust]

Re: Bartolinis

I was thinking a quad coil, like this, so you could also emulate a P bass.

http://www.bartolini.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Woo_Quad.png

I obviously was thinkingin terms of MM/J. That type of quad-coil would be cool. You could do full humbucking, both precision alignments, and jazz, and all of them should be hum-canceling. As with any dual-coil config, you could wire them either series or parallel.

 

[BlueTalon]

Re: Bartolinis

dystrust, I think we meant splitting a stacked J, so it would be upper vs. lower coil.

Actually, dystrust was correct in his understanding, I was refering to tapping into a dual inline split-coil J pickup. I wanted to split the EA and DG, and route them through two different signal paths.

 

[polluxmdq]

Re: Bartolinis

Hi,
hope this is not too much OOT

if you are open to other basses, you might want to give a try to the warwick streamer / corvette $$
they have a double music man HB setup, with individual series / split / parallel switches for each mic.
The stock MEC pickups and 2 band EQ sound very good (but with SD's mics and 3 band EQ it sounds amazing)
you can easily dial in a MM-like tone, a P-like tone, a J-like tone, a Rick-like tone... it does anything from growly to agressive midrange, to slappy, to sofisticaded.
It can do funk, metal, rock, blues, jazz, pop, marriages....

It's highly underrated, and can be found second hand for a much lower price tag than new.