Pup Selection help

[full_bleed]

I'm looking at pickups right now for a custom that I want made. I'm looking for a very versitile pickup that will be able to wire in both series and parallel as well as switch from front coil/both coils/rear coil. For aethetics only I perfer a pickup with no exposed pole pieces but I will not rule one with them out. I wish to be able to get all 3 "standard" american tones i.e. jazz, p-bass, and musicman and more if possible. The pups I'm looking at right now are Bart CF and MM4CBC as well as Nordstrand's MM4.3 although I have no experience with these pups and have not heard any sound samples to base my selections from . I'm curious about bassculture pups but I can't seem to dig up much info on them. Any and all suggestionsand comments are welcome. Moderators I will be placing this thread in 3 different locations in hopes to get more responses as I know that not everyone visits the same TB sections.

[Hookus]

Well, for what it is worth, I don't think that a price tag necessarily correlates with quality. I used DiMarzio Model J's in my last bass, and they sound better than many much more expensive pups. I was purely amazed at the sound of them, very powerful, well-rounded sound. I bought them based off os SMASH's pup review in the electronics forum. And they come with a ~90 dollar price tag, not 290.

I would even be so bold as to say that careful selection of capacitor value, and for that matter the scheme of the electronics, can make a larger difference than which pup is used, for passive 'lectronics.

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Originally Posted by Hookus

Well, for what it is worth, I don't think that a price tag necessarily correlates with quality. I used DiMarzio Model J's in my last bass, and they sound better than many much more expensive pups. I was purely amazed at the sound of them, very powerful, well-rounded sound. I bought them based off os SMASH's pup review in the electronics forum. And they come with a ~90 dollar price tag, not 290.

I would even be so bold as to say that careful selection of capacitor value, and for that matter the scheme of the electronics, can make a larger difference than which pup is used, for passive 'lectronics.

Who said anything about prices? BTW I'm not looking for a jazz pup.

[mahrous]

i bought a pair of Delano Quad Coil Soapbars. unfortunately, i havent tried them out, the bass is not ready yet!

but i believe that quality yields quality. that thing is so carefully and cleanly made ... its horrific! now i dont feel like starting a line of the business in pickup making. that Delano guy turned me off

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Originally Posted by mahrous

i bought a pair of Delano Quad Coil Soapbars. unfortunately, i havent tried them out, the bass is not ready yet!

but i believe that quality yields quality. that thing is so carefully and cleanly made ... its horrific! now i dont feel like starting a line of the business in pickup making. that Delano guy turned me off

Do you have a linK?

[Hookus]

Originally Posted by full_bleed

Who said anything about prices? BTW I'm not looking for a jazz pup.

But you gave a list of criteriaas far as desired sound, and I gave an option that would fill the bill...

[daveze]

Delano Pickups

I haven't tried them but there've been a number of positive reports about them.

[T-34]

I tested Warwick Jazzman fitted with Delano J+MM set. It was exellent, very good tonal balance.
Bass owner changed pickups to get rid of volume differences between pickups, MM overpowering the J.

[cnltb]

I'd say -Bassculture- or -Lefay-
<www.bassculture.de>,<www.lefay.de>
Both are very ,very good.
Both make very fine basses also and will be able to give some advice as to what may work best for any given taste or requirements.