keeponehandloose Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Im after the sound in this clip, but which pickup would get me nearest? I appreciate this could be a vintage bass but apart from that what would do the job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiOgon Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Any P pup will do, it's the fingers that matter 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeponehandloose Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, KiOgon said: Any P pup will do, it's the fingers that matter 😎 Are they original or re issue? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooky_lowdown Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Reissue fingers? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeponehandloose Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 12 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said: Reissue fingers? Yep... Serious answers are also welcome 🙂 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooky_lowdown Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 hour ago, keeponehandloose said: Yep... Serious answers are also welcome 🙂 Blimey, someone has no sense of humor. Anyway Tonerider TRP1 and nickel strings will get you the bass tone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeponehandloose Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 11 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said: Blimey, someone has no sense of humor. Anyway Tonerider TRP1 and nickel strings will get you the bass tone. Thanks Hooky... tone is a very serious subject... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 I always liked the Seymour Duncan Antiquity range for classic P bass tones but I agree you can get a good tone from good technique, whatever the pickup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudewheresmybass Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Definitely agree technique wise. The best vintage p pup I’ve heard and played has been the emg gzr. Lovely mmmmm 😉😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danuman Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 I have a nice (expensive) Curtis Novak PB-V in my high(ish)-end bitsa, which sounds very good indeed... but I put a Tonerider in my MIM P that I ended up selling on a bit quicker than I had expected. I’m not sure I didn’t prefer that bass, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbyrne Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Well, a few years agi I had a good copy Jazz bass (bass type not actually important here) that had the passive EMG Hz pickups. I spent A LOT of money and bought a set of Joe Barden pups. These promised me to reproduce the "authentic, original sound of the early Jazz pickups". So I put them on and played. Nobody noticed. Nobody said "Gee, how wonderful your bass sounds now that you have spent large amounts of cash on your pickups!" I kidded myself for a while, imagining I could hear more top, deeper bass, more complex mids, but sooner or later I realised I was probably kidding myself. I went back to looking at the EMG Hz pups and discovered the blurb which said the would give the "authentic, original sound of the early Jazz pickups". Yeah. I re-installed the EMGs and - guess what - nobody noticed. Draw your own conclusions. G. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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