Getting The Sound...

[Randy_Marsh]

I've been playing my Warwick Corvette relentlessly recently and although i like the pickups (which are passive) im thinking of replacing them. Ideally my sound would be as close to Alex Katunich's out of Incubus. Which pickups do you reckon would be best suited to the job and still give that Warwick growl?

[XB26354]

Swapping pickups makes very little difference to the tone of a bass. I've tried identical corvettes and streamers with MEC passive, MEC active, Bartolini, EMG and Seymour Duncans and they all sound pretty much the same. I also had a custom made bass once where I tried several different pickups (with the same circuit) and the bass sounded the same. The output volume will vary - more coils = more gain - but the tone hardly changes. Maybe look at a different circuit?

[Randy_Marsh]

thanks thats some good advice. can you think of any circuits that'd fit the bill?

[umph]

the dude in incubus uses a pretty complex rig to get his sound i think the bass only plays a small role in his sound

[Randy_Marsh]

[quote]the dude in incubus uses a pretty complex rig to get his sound i think the bass only plays a small role in his sound[/quote]

damn, i completely forgot about his monster eden rig! god i wish i was rich