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View Poll Results: Which pickup do you favour when slapping? | |
Bridge
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Neck
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Both
|    | 17 | 53.13% |
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11-03-2005, 06:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol, UK | | | Slap - What pickup do you favour?
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Am I mad, or do other people solo their NECK pickup when they slap? To me it sounds so much more punchy and interesting than using the bridge, and you get a real rich Stuart Zender style tone (Well I do on my 'wick). Just curious 
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11-03-2005, 08:11 AM
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11-03-2005, 08:54 AM
| | | | I play Jazz basses.
With that said, like Whafro, I balance the two together for my own sound during solos and stuff.
If I'm playing older tunes that recorded with a 'old school sound', I'll que in the neck just a little bit. Just enough to notice the change in tone and that's it. I rarely if ever solo any pickup.
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11-03-2005, 09:19 AM
| | | | I play a L-2000, so its a real decision for me
I find that using one or the other tends to leave something desired, whereas both is the best of both worlds (for fingerstyle and slap) |
11-03-2005, 01:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ireland | | | If find that I use the bridge pick up on my sterling for slap and finger style and everything else........
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11-03-2005, 07:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Austin, TX | | | I use my pups 50/50, with the bass boosted on the neck, and the trable on the bridge.
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11-03-2005, 08:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | on my cheapo Yammy (only bass in my posession with a decent slap tone)...I put the bridge J-pup on full throttle and dial in the neck P-pup about 50%... I then open the tone pot up (use my amp for the slap contour)...
I find that when I run the pups in series (have performed a series mod) and scoop my amp a little more...I get a very thumpy slap tone...which would work well is some settings, i think... |
11-03-2005, 09:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | For slapping, definately the Neck PU. It's got more of a thick, hearty sound. When I slap I want it to be nice and fat sounding like that. |
11-04-2005, 12:55 AM
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+1 neck-especially on an L2000
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11-04-2005, 05:06 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | I use the neck the majority of the time I use the neck pickup on my bas, but I often fiddle around with both and blend them, gets me a sort of Stuart Hamm/Vail Johnson type tone.
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