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Humbucker in a P style bass?


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I have an old Westone Concorde with a p pickup in it. I was just wondering if it was practical to ditch the existing pup and stick a hummer in instead? Would you put it in the same place? Back towards the bridge? No Idea if this will happen, just curious at this point.

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58 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

Puzzled ... surely the pickup in a P-style bass IS a humbucker? What am I missing here?

 

And don't call me Shirley.

 

 

Completely correct.  This is one of the reasons for a P pup is in 2 pieces - they're wound in opposite directions.

 

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On 14/03/2022 at 11:20, Alien said:

Completely correct.  This is one of the reasons for a P pup is in 2 pieces - they're wound in opposite directions.

 

True. Think the OP was referring to a Musicman soap bar humbucker, or at least that was the conclusion I drew. 

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You can wire a four wire (or five, makes no difference) humbucker in to give you bridge side single coil, both coils in series, both coils in parallel and neck side single coil with a four position rotary switch, or push/pull volume and tone controls. 

I did this on a Stingray copy. 

 

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