pickup tapping on fenders

[bassninja7]

i noticed whenever i play fenders, does not matter if its a p or a j, i always seem to smack the strings against the pups.

anyone else expirence this?

[lemur821]

I've done it before. A decent setup fixes it.

[MyUsernameHere]

Never on the two Fenders I've owned. Get a good set up done...or better yet, learn how to do it yourself and save some money.

[bassninja7]

i went to GC today and played the 08 MIA p bass and slapped the pups, but when i picked up a epi thunderbird, none what-so-ever....hmmmm

[JustOpenYourMind]

Fenders, and a lot of other basses have exposed polepieces, thunderbirds have plain covers that don't show the magnets.

Your technique is probably the problem, I think you must be plucking the strings perpendicular to the body, the strings then hit the pickups, it's not supposed to happen.

Try plucking parralel to the body of the bass, plucking the strings up, toward you instead down to towards the body of the bass.

[Step]

I think its your technique to be honest, I never had that issue with the fenders Ive played, and even then, a fender P is different from a jazz, so I dnno

try another bass with exposed polepieces and see what happens

[sevenyearsdown]

Jeez how high do you have your PUPS raised if that's happening?

[bassninja7]

Originally Posted by sevenyearsdown

Jeez how high do you have your PUPS raised if that's happening?

the p bass i played, the pups were almost too low to rest my thumb on

[artistanbul]

I like tapping on pickups.
Of course when not intended it should be bad...

[sevenyearsdown]

Originally Posted by bassninja7

the p bass i played, the pups were almost too low to rest my thumb on

Forgive me for saying this, but either I'm misunderstanding you, or you aren't making any sense.

I've been a p-bass player for years. A normally tuned P-bass with the PUP dropped all the way down.....it seems impossible to me that the strings could contact the PUP unless you are displacing them by an inch or more when you pluck them.

[bassninja7]

Originally Posted by sevenyearsdown

Forgive me for saying this, but either I'm misunderstanding you, or you aren't making any sense.

I've been a p-bass player for years. A normally tuned P-bass with the PUP dropped all the way down.....it seems impossible to me that the strings could contact the PUP unless you are displacing them by an inch or more when you pluck them.

ahhh, sorry i ment, the pups were sunk in the body (odd that a MIA at GC would be set up that way)

[Wicked_Bassist7]

maybe you should try adjusting the action on the bass. either that or stop laying down solid funkalicious slaps

[JustOpenYourMind]

Honestly, it's not normal that the strings hit the pickups regardless of brands, even while slapping hard. When I play a bass, strings never hit the pickups unless I do it on purpose wether it's a 200$ or a 2000$ bass. Like I said, I think you should look into what causes that in your technique instead of blaming the bass.

I'm not saying that because I play Fenders at all, I totally respect the fact that each player has brands he likes or dislikes but in this case brand has nothing to do with it.