Bartolini pickups

[GGM]

Anyone else just loving Bartolini pickups? Had some in my P bass for a while and got some in my jazz last week, use it Friday night and blown away by how great they sound!

[chris_b]

I put some Barts on my 4 string Fender Precision. They were a significant improvement on the original pickups. I had the Bartolini option on my Lakland 55-94D. Great tone.

 

For many years Barts were the standard equipment for most boutique basses. They have more competition these days, but I haven't heard a bad set of Bart pickups yet.

[peteb]

I have Barts on both of my passive Fenders (Precision & Jazz bases). 

[Bassman68]

I have a Bart MM in my ‘87 Stingray 2 band eq.

IMO it provides just about the right level of mids, sometimes missing from the eq?
Set both the bass & treble to halfway allows some wonderful midrange ‘honk’ through?

[WinterMute]

I have a Bart pup and pre-amp in my "SR5" fretless (MM neck OLP body) and it sounds really good, the pre is very effective.

[Sibob]

Yup, love them, best in the business IMO.
I have US Barts (ie not MK1's etc) in my Elrick and Lakland 5 strings. Also waiting on an order of their B-Axis P/J pickups to go in my Lakland 4 string.

 

Si

[Boodang]

I love barts and feel they have an organic tone. For my Sei bass I had a custom triple coil MM Bartolini made.... 2 live coils and a dummy coil for humcancelling, and the ability to switch series or parallel. Originally had an active preamp onboard but like the raw sound of the pickup so much I took it out.

And I have an 8S P which sounds fantastic on my fretless.