Hey guys! Can u guys help me with something??

[Westie808]

Ok I just wanted to know what kinnd of pick ups can give u that deep growl sound? Thank u guys.

[line6man]

This is the vaguest question I've ever heard. What is "that deep growl sound?"

What kind of bass is this?

[Westie808]

Dude im sorry!...this website was meant to "talk aboutbasses" Oviously and it was just a simple question!

[Westie808]

I just wanna know which kind of pick ups can give u a good growl sound thats it! Nothing else.. Jeezz

[line6man]

I could tell you any one of about a thousand pickups that are toward the warm/deep side, but would that be of any use to you?

You need to be specific about what you are looking for if you expect any plausible suggestions. Pickups of all forms can be voiced to be deep and growly, but they will all sound very different. For example, a mudbucker is nothing like a warm Jazz pickup.

[levis76]

P-bass with lots of low mids.

Mission Accomplished

[Westie808]

Ok ok..im sorry for acting up.lol but what do u think about the bartolinis?

[octopoculator]

this is the coolest thread on TB i think.

i think what you're looking for is a bass with good pickups, like a fender jazz bass or a warwick with jazz pickups ie. corvette

supposedly warwicks have a growl to them but i wouldn't know as i don't own one. last one i played sounded pretty bright rather than warm or growly. lol!

[AltGrendel]

"J" pickups discussion and comparisons.

[DiabolusInMusic]

Barts are good, but in my experience not very growly, but I've only got experience with MK2-6's nothing else.

[FunkMetalBass]

What kind of bass do you have? It's nigh impossible to make pickup recommendations if we don't even know what the shape or the location of the pickups are.

I'd guess that a bridge jazz pickup or MM-style humbucker would be the growl you're looking for.

[mech]

Originally Posted by Westie808

Ok I just wanted to know what kinnd of pick ups can give u that deep growl sound? Thank u guys.

Most growl comes from the preamp section of your amp. 999 out of 1000 pickups will not growl if plugged into a low gain preamp. Plug a high output PU into a normal preamp input and depending on how the preamp is configured and controls set you can have anything from no growl to all growl. Whether the growl sounds good is a different story.

mech

[SGD Lutherie]

Originally Posted by Westie808

I just wanna know which kind of pick ups can give u a good growl sound thats it! Nothing else.. Jeezz

The thing is a word like growl is very subjective. What you call growl might be different from what I call growl.

Can you give some examples of the sound you like?

[Coolhandjjl]

Originally Posted by mech

Most growl comes from the preamp section of your amp......

IMO, 'growl' come from the phase cancellation/comb filtering when two pickups on full interact with each other such as on a Jazz bass. The preamp gives the 'grind' by over driving the gain.

The quest for the best......whatever is endless. There is no right answer. One mans' growl is another mans' inarticulate tone. One mans' clean tone is another mans' dead tone. There is simply no substitute for trying different pickups, strings, etc. That's why we have a Buy/Sell Forum here!

[SGD Lutherie]

Originally Posted by Coolhandjjl

IMO, 'growl' come from the phase cancellation/comb filtering when two pickups on full interact with each other such as on a Jazz bass. The preamp gives the 'grind' by over driving the gain.

See, to me growl is a totally different sound.

[line6man]

Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie

See, to me growl is a totally different sound.

+1.
I see "growl" as a soloed single coil Jazz bass bridge pickup. No phase cancellation there.

[Nikoubis]

And yet to me "growl" is more about aggressive low mids. A soloed bridge j pickup I would describe as "nasal" (not a bad thing).

This is a great thread.