Munurmunuh Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 If you took a p-bass... ...removed the split pickup... ...and replaced it, in exactly the same spot, with a humbucker that, aside from the obvious, was as similar as possible to the split pickup ...then what would be the tonal consequences? Which of the elements of the typical p-bass tone are the ones that would be lost? What tonal characters would be added? (I can see that most single humbucker basses differ from this picture, so I don't need to be told that it's a bad idea etc etc, I'm just curious to know) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertbass Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 In my opinion you'd lose the definition of the note the lower in pitch you go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikay Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 (edited) The neck pickup in this demo of the Sims Super Quad is close enough to the P position to give you some idea. The first 30secs demo the neck pup in split coil mode (standard P) followed by humbucker (parallel), then single coil. Edited April 18, 2021 by ikay 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munurmunuh Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 1 hour ago, ikay said: The neck pickup in this demo of the Sims Super Quad is close enough to the P position to give you some idea. The first 30secs demo the neck pup in split coil mode (standard P) followed by humbucker (parallel), then single coil. That was fantastic thank you. The answer to my question is very different to what I was expecting. When I was much younger, I was a guitarist and very much, as it were, a fan of Team Gibson. I'm still trying getting my head around the refusal of my love for humbuckers on guitars to transfer to basses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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