pickup questions ive had in my head

[warwickben]

so iam makeing a seven string bass and iam down two buying pickups. the cheapist i was able to find them was for around 200 dollars for one.
if u know a cheaper pickups thats good give me a link.


now to my questions. i was thinking i could buy a 5 string j pickp set and buy a p pickup. could you take the p pickup apart and wire one half of the p with one of the j's to make a seven string pick up.

my next idea would be this. take 2 ;4 string j pickups and wire them togarther like a p pickup is . only problem one string whould go over a coil on each pickup. sorry if this doesnt make sense.

[62bass]

The first problem I see would be that the half of the P pickup would not match the J in terms of output or sound character. So there'd be a drastic difference between the strings covered by each pickup.

Your second idea also may give you output problems where the pickups overlap. If you already have some cheap pickups and a bass you can afford to ruin you may want to experiment.

If you want a good sounding professional looking job though, I think you'll have to bite the bullet and buy pickups made for a seven string bass. Or go all out and do some studying and wind your own pickups.

[Trevorus]

I'd say, wind your own and make wood covers to match the bass!

[Searcy]

If you can provide the specs to a pickup maker I'm sure you could have some made for less than $200 each. A lot less I bet.

[saxnbass]

I was going to do that and I had decided to use 2 p-bass pickups to make a long extended P pickup. Make sense?

[warwickben]

can some one send me a link to a good pickup maker.


allso i rember seeing a site that showed you how to make pickups for each string. looked a little like a music man pickup.

[saxnbass]

Aero makes great pickups. I know Stambaugh uses Aero pickups. There is also Bartolini, EMG, DiMarzio, BassLines (Duncan), Lindy Fralin, Kent Lawrence

[Searcy]

Geee, I can think of at least one