Best pickup
 

Hey, have just heard Bartolinis for first time sound great.Could anyone please tell me what they think is the best bass pickup. Thanks.

Ask ten bassists, get eleven answers.

For actives I only like EMG P's and J's. But I have a lot of favorite passive pickups, and it all depends on the application. The Fender 62 Original P and 60's CS J, DiMarzio Model P or Model J or Ultrajazz, the Duncan Quarter Pounder, the Danelectro Lipsticks...just like anything involved in making music, there really is no best bass pickup, just a lot of really good ones that some like and some don't, and a handful of crap ;)

The best pickup out there is the one I like the best.

LOL...

My favorites are Duncan dual-coils or the Nordstrands of the same configuration. I like the Sadowsky soap bars they use in the Modern 5-25 and their humbucking J pickups, too. Now that I think of it, I like a lot of pickups.

I'd like to test drive a pair of SGD's Sidewinders. They sound pretty awesome in the recordings they've posted.

To be honest though, I can't tell the difference between most pickups. Even when I hear some kind of difference, I can usually find other reasons that I hear a difference: different amp, different cab, even different wiring/components. For example… in the manual for my pups, there are two resonant frequencies listed: one for 500k volume pots (2600Hz), another for 1M volume pots (4400Hz). That's a difference of 1800Hz! That's a world of difference. I've gotten so many different sounds out of the same bass just by going passive, adding a varitone circuit, changing the kind of pots I use, etc.

Yeah, that was a rant. Sorry. (;

There is no best. Please don't use that word. It's like a red rag to a bull on TB.

It's the B-word and should be banned.

Reword your question and say what sound you're after and what bass you have then we can offer informed opinions.

Well some of us : )
Davo