Recent content by barlemniscate

Hi there - I'll be auditioning to a Berklee summer program soon, and I wanted to know if you guys thought I should play a) an expressive solo/chordal bass arrangement of My Favorite Things (that accurately represents me as an artist) or b) a medley that shows my ability to switch between...

Nor could I - I'm going to email them to see if I can get any samples. Thanks for the tip!

That is exactly what I'm going for! That's why I thought about the Sims Super Quad pickups which do that (minus the series/parallel). I just don't know how I'd wire it (with my already limited experience) in a simple way. I saw a Strat one time with six switches on it, and that seems almost like...

You can take a P bass pickup and split the two coils from one output to two, so why not do the same with a humbucker? Even if it's two split singles, it's still theoretically possible so long as there's four overall coils. I do get what you mean, though, about the coils making a difference...

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So I've been trying to see how I can my bass super versatile. So far the best answer is Sims Quad Coil pickups, imitating a P bass, and J bass, and a Stingray. However, the only part about these pickups that's special (as far as I can tell) is that they're quad coil and can be switched into...

OK. Thank you.

Yes, but it should still change the sound vs just soloing a pickup in parallel - right?

Look at the diagram. The signal would never reach the pot. I'd be running one pickup in series to another pot that wouldn't have anything going into it.

It'd be disabled via the DPDT switch. The hot would never reach the pot to begin with. I posted a diagram above.

The point of the selector switch is to be able to keep the bridge pickup but just not have the hot go into the pot (unless the selector is set for middle or bridge). This way, I can adjust individual volumes in parallel and have one of either pickup('s output) or both. Running it through a dead...

It'd be in series with the disabled pickup.

In 8:24 of this video (), he starts to a demo similar system to what I have in mind (ie parallel and series neck pickup only), and there's no tonal difference on fingers - there is, though, on pick and slap when it's what you'd expect. Did he mix up some files or am I crazy?

Well, split-coil pups only have one output and one ground, so there wouldn't even be a way to do that - right? Alas! I wish an expert would comment.

In my case, there's only one coil per pickup, as I play on a J bass - sorry for the miscommunication. My idea is to cut the signal from whatever pickup I want before it gets to the pots with the 3-way switch, and then run the remaining pickups into the pots where they can be put into parallel...