Single coil p bass neck with music man bridge: Good or Bad combination?
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They're both humbucking. Either one of those is going to thump like nothing else.
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The P/J combo is pretty popular but takes the MM pickup out of the equation. Many aftermarket MM pickups are splitable, making a single coil sound possible. There's always the $$ (double-buck) combo of 2 MM pickups. If you got both of those splitable, that would yield quite a few combos. I've never cared much for the P-Bass sound. It thumps great, which is what a bass should do, but it lacks articulation even with boosted mids IMO, i.e. fills and technicality sound muddy. A single P-Bass pickup tends to be a one trick pony, albeit a great trick. The addition of a MM pickup to the mix would be great, hence why many P-Bass pickups sound great in combination with another.
oh yeah sorry, well im just working over the specs for what im hoping will be my first build, and ive already got an epiphone thunderbird and a fender precision bass, from before 2008 with the s1 switching system, aka series to parrallel wiring i believe, one gives it a more jazz pick up sound, and well i was wondering of a good third bass , one with a sound possibly between how heavy the epiphone is but still with the ability of a precision to sound good for more intricate bass lines, and i was thinking a music man would work well for this, and possibly the single coil p bass to help with the p bass sound compliment, and look different to alot of music man combos hehe hope this helps
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My main fretted bass is MM neck J bridge, and I had a G&L with 2 MM. That's a really dark, potentially muddy sound you're thinking about. Personally, I think you're going to end up not hearing the P pickup much, and that the output balance will be tricky. As was mentioned above, I wonder what sound you're looking for. I use the MM for a Gibson-esque fat, warm sound and then dial in the J pickup for some Fender clarity. I'm not sure that you'd be getting much clarity out of either of those pickups, and I can't imagine many useful applications.
That being said, who knows? It might be super cool.
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That being said, who knows? It might be super cool.
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Doesn't a guy here have a bass with that exact combo?
A MM should have a much hotter output than a single coil P.
I wouldn't recommend having two tone controls in a passive circuit.
Due to the nature of the wiring, when the pickups are at an equal volume, the tone controls are in parallel, so whichever one is at the lower setting will affect both pickups.
There are only two ways around this:
You can isolate the tone controls from each other through the use of two 220K resistors, however, this equates to a huge drop in volume, the resonant frequency is shifted downward and the treble is decreased.
The only true way to have functional, independent tone controls is to actively buffer the circuits from each other.
A MM should have a much hotter output than a single coil P.
I wouldn't recommend having two tone controls in a passive circuit.
Due to the nature of the wiring, when the pickups are at an equal volume, the tone controls are in parallel, so whichever one is at the lower setting will affect both pickups.
There are only two ways around this:
You can isolate the tone controls from each other through the use of two 220K resistors, however, this equates to a huge drop in volume, the resonant frequency is shifted downward and the treble is decreased.
The only true way to have functional, independent tone controls is to actively buffer the circuits from each other.
