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10-05-2011, 08:59 AM
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Please will someone tell me the distance from the 12th fret to the center of the pick up,on a single coil (51) style P bass?
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10-05-2011, 09:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | Signature Series Sting Precision measures 10 7/16" from 12th fret to center of pole pieces.
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10-05-2011, 10:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Winston Salem, NC | | | Thanks. I am considering changing my 5 string JJ type bass to a single coil 51 PU style with a JJ rear. On my JJ, the front PU is about an inch rearwards... May be better to start with a 51 type 5 string add a rear J pick up..
Issue being I like the punch of the single coil PU, and have not bee able to get it out of the J PU I have tried. Maybe I haven't found the right PU yet, but ...
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10-05-2011, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by azureblue  Issue being I like the punch of the single coil PU, and have not bee able to get it out of the J PU I have tried. Maybe I haven't found the right PU yet, but ... | I think this one is very much more about pickup design than location. The single-coil Precision pickup is vastly different from other Fender (and most Fender-style) pickups. Like other Fender PUPs it has a coil wrapped around individual magnets. But it has only ONE pole for each string. That's a huge part I believe of the characteristic sound of those instruments. The attack in fact is why Leo Fender designed the double-pole pickups he used on the second-generation Precision and the Jazz Bass.
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10-05-2011, 11:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Winston Salem, NC | | | Way way back, I had an original single coil P Bass, I think it was a 52, but the sn was 0452. I played a lot of funk and old soul on it, especially Tower of Power material, and that thing punched through like a machine gun - spit out those rapid 16th nice and separated, clean and clear. That's what I'm trying to get.
I understand the difference between the two types of Pick ups, and why Leo went to a dual pole PU, I gather, too much punch for his amps.
I wish I could find a 5 str wide J type PU with that much punch..
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10-05-2011, 12:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Zagreb, Croatia | | | The P51 pickup is directly underneath a harmonic that sounds the same as the one on the 4th and 9th fret. That's also the reason why that harmonic is practically inaudible on those basses.
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10-05-2011, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Winston Salem, NC | | | That must be why it was put there. Thanks for the info
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