Whats you favorite Bass pickup???

I would truly like to know whats your favorite pickup and why?

I choose soapbars because there very versitile.

sorry I will do another post with piezos I did not want to make the poll that long.

[millsbass5]

Lane poor.Please Lane,start making them again!
The stock pups in my '75 J-Bass.

[topcat2069]

My Faves are:

P neck & Jazz bridge

or

Jazz neck & Music Man bridge

I also really like a series/parallel switching with the P/J setup

[line6man]

Your poll doesn't make any sense to me.
You just put an option, then its pluralized form.

In any case, i prefer one single coil pickup in the bridge position of a fretless Jazz bass.

[SGD Lutherie]

Also, soapbar is a shape. Inside can be anything, and most often split coil or a humbucker.

[bongomania]

Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie

Also, soapbar is a shape. Inside can be anything, and most often split coil or a humbucker.

Yep. Shape does not = sound.

Plus, my most favorite pickup and my least favorite pickup are/were both hum-canceling Jazz pups.

Plus, the position of a pup on the body can make just as much difference to the tone as the "type" of pup. Maybe even more difference in some cases.

[Webtroll]

Voted split, but a split with a humbucker/soap right behind it would be ideal.

[SGD Lutherie]

Originally Posted by bongomania

Yep. Shape does not = sound.

Plus, my most favorite pickup and my least favorite pickup are/were both hum-canceling Jazz pups.

That's a hard pickup style to do new things with. It's very narrow, just not a lot of room in there. I just squeezed a regular humbucker into a Jazz case. Then it took a bit more work to get the tone I wanted.

Plus, the position of a pup on the body can make just as much difference to the tone as the "type" of pup. Maybe even more difference in some cases.

Exactly! Move a P pickup up near the bridge, and it no longer sounds like a P, but it doesn't sound like anything else either.

I like mixing pickups for different locations, and soapbar cases are great for that. Keeps the look uniform.

[fullrangebass]

Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie

Also, soapbar is a shape. Inside can be anything, and most often split coil or a humbucker.

+1

Originally Posted by line6man

Your poll doesn't make any sense to me.
You just put an option, then its pluralized form.

In any case, i prefer one single coil pickup in the bridge position of a fretless Jazz bass.

then you should have voted single coil my origanal idea was to post every postion magnet and combination but your talking 3 different magnets 3 pickup positions 7 different pickups. So i figured that this would be the easiest(It is for me atleast)

Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie

Also, soapbar is a shape. Inside can be anything, and most often split coil or a humbucker.

When I think of soapbar I think of two single doils close together try to look at this from a non technical point of view.

Originally Posted by bongomania

Yep. Shape does not = sound.

Plus, my most favorite pickup and my least favorite pickup are/were both hum-canceling Jazz pups.

Plus, the position of a pup on the body can make just as much difference to the tone as the "type" of pup. Maybe even more difference in some cases.

The pole is what is your favorite pickup not pickup position. There is not enough polls to do every single pickup location and magnet and type of pickup weather or not it has series parrallel

[capnsandwich]

I'm torn between soapbars and single coils. I picked soapbars but I like my EMG 40J's which is a single coil in a soapbar shape.

[MadMan118]

I have two basses, an Ibanez SR 500, and a SR 700. Both have Bartolini MK 1 humbucking soapbars.

[BigOldHarry]

The funny thing is - "Soapbar" pickups are just a form factor, not indicative of the circuit - so there are single coil 'soapbar' p'ups (Nordstrand Big Singles leap to mind) - but most are humbucking, so far as I know.

I've had 4 basses with soapbars, and they all sound 'thicker' than my single coil J p'ups - but it also could be that 3 of the 4 were Barts, which are known to have a thicker sound, for the most part...

I have one bass with single coil p'ups - Nordstrand NJ5s - nice sounding, big 'bark', if you will - but not quite as warm as I usually like...

[capnsandwich]

Originally Posted by BigOldHarry

The funny thing is - "Soapbar" pickups are just a form factor, not indicative of the circuit - so there are single coil 'soapbar' p'ups (Nordstrand Big Singles leap to mind) - but most are humbucking, so far as I know.

I've had 4 basses with soapbars, and they all sound 'thicker' than my single coil J p'ups - but it also could be that 3 of the 4 were Barts, which are known to have a thicker sound, for the most part...

I have one bass with single coil p'ups - Nordstrand NJ5s - nice sounding, big 'bark', if you will - but not quite as warm as I usually like...

Yeah, I used to have some Bartolini xxM45c's in one of my basses and they were quad coil pickups. They were very thick sounding and had PLENTY of output. I loved those pickups but they went when my bass went.

[WoodyG3]

Originally Posted by garretibanez

When I think of soapbar I think of two single doils close together try to look at this from a non technical point of view.

I don't get what you mean. There are many shapes of pickups, but that has nothing to do, necessarily, with hat type of pickup they are. It's not a technical issue. It's kind of like saying do you prefer gasoline engines, diesel engines, hybrid engines or sedans.

Anyway, I usually get the tone I want from single coils, so that's what I picked.

[Irtemed]

I like a jazz single coil at the neck and a MusicMan humbucker at the bridge

[Stickk]

P-Bass Humbucker + J-bass Bridge Pickups + Series/Parallel Switch = Win.

[bongomania]

Originally Posted by garretibanez

try to look at this from a non technical point of view.

Sorry, you're dealing with a very technical subject. With pickups, opinions that are formed without any technical understanding are hardly worth the pixels they're printed on.