Fattest Bartolini Pickup

[jallenbass]

Of all of the varieties of Bartolini's which ones have the fattest sound? I'm not concerned about whether there are a lot of highs or not.

[tubby.twins]

You'll probably want one of their "classic bass" dual coil humbuckers. They come in a variety of "soapbar" shapes.

If you want a fat sound, I wouldn't recommend the "deep tone" models. They have a decent fundamental but sound fairly polite and nondescript, in my opinion. The "classic bass" have a more interesting midrange and a fatter overall tone, especially if you run them in series mode.

[jallenbass]

Good to know. You'd think "deep tone" would mean they have...well, you know. I have the CB P bass Bartolini and I like its sound very much. Just trying to see if anything else is fatter.

[garmenteros]

I had a standard precision with the classic series p bass pickups... very round and deep tone... not too many highs but I liked them alot... I currently have a 5 string jazz with classic series jazz pickups in them and they aren't as fat sounding as the p... I just recently got some mighty mite shape humbuckers in soapbar shapes (bartolinis, thats the name of the model of the pickup) and I'll let you know how these sound when I put them in a lespaul bass im cooking up...

[lowfreqman]

The quad coils that Bartolini makes for Roscoe are very fat sounding. YUM!

[jallenbass]

Originally Posted by garmenteros

I had a standard precision with the classic series p bass pickups... very round and deep tone... not too many highs but I liked them alot... I currently have a 5 string jazz with classic series jazz pickups in them and they aren't as fat sounding as the p... I just recently got some mighty mite shape humbuckers in soapbar shapes (bartolinis, thats the name of the model of the pickup) and I'll let you know how these sound when I put them in a lespaul bass im cooking up...

Thanks. I look forward to hearing about the soaps.