oldslapper Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 Just replaced the Tonerider pups in my P with these G&L pups. Mahoosive!!! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintoid Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 What are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted September 10, 2023 Author Share Posted September 10, 2023 29 minutes ago, wintoid said: What are they? G&L MFD split coil humbucker. Found on SB1 basses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintoid Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 Nice, and you can buy them separately can you? Just a drop-in replacement on a precision? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 This was my original plan when I got a G&L Tribute LB-100 to turn it into a poor man's SB-1, but I ended up liking the stock pickup enough that I couldn't be bothered changing it. They are monstrous though - I had a Tribute SB-2 a few years back, and it used to get mistaken for being an active bass by sound engineers... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted September 10, 2023 Author Share Posted September 10, 2023 1 hour ago, wintoid said: Nice, and you can buy them separately can you? Just a drop-in replacement on a precision? I got these here. Presumably used, out of an SB1 or 2. But yes a drop in replacement, didn’t even have to alter the pickup holes on the pickguard. And the strings lined up between the poles nicely too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munurmunuh Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 That pickup can lowered a bit, and will still give a very strong sound, but warm and rounded. I use Pro Steels with mine. I was very pleasantly surprised at the tonal range that that combination can do. Much more versatile than I expected. The inner ring of the pole pieces can be raised with an allen key, which seems to bring out a little more definition, useful for the E+G. My SB-1 is packaged up ready to have its neck sorted out, and I'm missing the pickup already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jezzaboy Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 (edited) They are nice pickup`s but I went onto the G&L online store to order a set but the postage price was something crazy like £50! Aye just checked, £66 for the pickup and £49 postage. Edited September 12, 2023 by jezzaboy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Aye, output on these is ginormous! Owned a USA-made SB-2 and the splitcoil ate the bridge pickup for breakfast. The MFD bridge singlecoil was useless on its own because of the vast difference in output, but provided a useful bit of "tone control" to the splitcoil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, LeftyJ said: Aye, output on these is ginormous! Owned a USA-made SB-2 and the splitcoil ate the bridge pickup for breakfast. The MFD bridge singlecoil was useless on its own because of the vast difference in output, but provided a useful bit of "tone control" to the splitcoil. That is the bridge pickup's official purpose on an SB-2. Nice for a bridge pickup to have a purpose for a change 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 You can order them through Andertons. You will have to wait for the next G&L shipment they get, but you will not be paying the ridiculous shipping. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 What is the secret of these? Is it just bigly magnets? Super duper windings? What gives? I have a 5 string L1000 with an MFD pickup. It brings the heft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munurmunuh Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 G&L say, "MFD technology places a single bar magnet entirely beneath each pickup coil, and proprietary machined bushings house height-adjustable pole pieces to fine-tune the magnetic response to each string. Central to the electromagnetic formula, broad, potent magnets radiate a single polarity upward through the coil. The result is a stronger, smoother magnetic field right where the strings interact, for a fuller, warmer sound with less noise." I've a SB-1 and an LB-100. For a while I had a Dimarzio Model P on the LB-100. You would think the two pickups would be pretty similar, but when I transferred the same set of strings from one bass to the other, I learnt just how much the MFD has a "fuller, warmer sound". It just seems to be thick everywhere. I tend to use the volume knob as if it goes to 12 - I start at 10, with extra punch at 11, and all-out intensity at 12. Lot of change of character in that final bit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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