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Hi all!
Welcome to the pickups forum here on Talkbass.
If you are new here on Talkbass, please take the time to read the [Talkbass FAQ].
Attention: For sale ads (including linking your e-bay auction) are not allowed in the Pickups forum.
To post ads you have to do so in the Classifieds forum and for that you need to be a Supporting Member
These forums have been around since 1999 and many topics have been covered here over and over again.
I would like to urge people to use the [Search] function before posting.
Here is a collection of links from very common topics here.
[Summary of different styles of pickups]
[What is a Piezo pickup?]
[SMASH´s excellent J-pickup shootout]
[Davidmwilsons 'Basstasters' for Jazz pickups]
[Bass Player J-pup shootout]
Dr. DIMENTO´S experiments:
Active vs. Passive
Series / Parallel switching
Precision vs. Jazz
Lyle Caldwells excellent Jazz shielding pictorial
WINDING PICKUP PICKUPS LINK AND MUCH MORE
Making Pickups the Cheap Way: An Adventure into Pickup Winding
Fender Jazz Bass Pickup Restoration
Gigue's bass pickup/preamp test page
Tests : DiMarzio - Sadowsky - Aguilar - Fender - Lindy Fralin
Ray Salamons Guide to The Art of Soldering! (a how-to)
Another good soldering thread
MrGearhead.com - Wiring schematics and diagrams for Fender instruments
Pictorial diagrams for lots of standard pickup configurations.
Seymours huge Q&A section
These are questions and answers culled from ten years of Seymour's "Pickup Questions" column in Vintage Guitar magazine compiled here for your enjoyment and reference. (Over 700 questions and answers)
If you cannot find info on specific pickups you are wondering about. Please include all necessery info in your post. Info such as what type of bass, playing style, sound preference etc.
Thank you for your time!
Ívar Þórólfsson
Moderator of the Pickups forum.
P.s. if you see something you would like to add to this list, then please [PM] me.
