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3 pickup basses

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That's funny you started this thread because just tonight I was thinking it would be nice to have a third pickup in between the normal two pickups on a two pickup bass to kind of fill in the hole like putting a pickup where the P bass pickup is situated on say like a Jazz or a Thunderbird.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
That funny you started this thread because just tonight I was thinking it would be nice to have a third pickup in between the normal two pickups on a two pickup bass to kind of fill in the hole like putting a pickup where the P bass pickup is situated on say like a Jazz or a Thunderbird.
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Actually, the "neck" jazz pickup is right about where the precision pickup is located.
 
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TolerancEJ said:
Alembic has some cool ones where the 3rd pickup is MIDI.
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Pretty sure the middle "pickup" in those photos is dummy coil that is used for hum cancellation.

According to the post below, the dummy coil does not have a magnetic so it does not pickup the strings, but it does pickup hum. The dummy coil is connected out of phase with the pickups, so the hum cancels out.
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Wasnex said:
Pretty sure the middle "pickup" in those photos is dummy coil that is used for hum cancellation.

According to the post below, the dummy coil does not have a magnetic so it does not pickup the strings, but it does pickup hum. The dummy coil is connected out of phase with the pickups, so the hum cancels out.
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It is the same tech as Seymour Duncan's stacked single coils. The dummy coil is the opposite phase to the 'speaking' or 'seeing' coil. There is no such thing as a free lunch, as I've always found dummy coils to rob a bit of treble, dynamic range and general mojo from the single coil being hushed. Granted I've always make them by taking the mags out of cheap Strat or Jazz pickups, and I wager Alembic use a bit more savvy in their designs.

A few of my old basses are floating around out there still, and the new owners will get a surprise when they find a random pickup coil epoxied into the control cavity.
 
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mapleglo said:
Thanks! You know, I really should make a 5 string version. Maybe keep it all maple like this one, without the tremolo. It is a pretty cool bass, and with the wings routed out like that, it actually turned out pretty light weight. Maybe black hardware, and fewer frets to allow more room for the pickups. Maybe Alumitones. Hmmmm....
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Disassemble the existing one, keep the wings and make a new neck-thru section? :D
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Hey, the one behind the bridge and the one on the headstock don't count!
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Actually they do...kinda:
3rd bridge - Wikipedia
"Third bridge" techniques - basically plucking outside the speaking length for noisy stuff that gets picked up by normal pickups inside it so no, there should be no need for the outer ones, but I guess one might want those effects reinforced? :unsure:
Either that and/or the outer pickups are there for the opposite reason: being able to pick up the noisy stuff while the string is plucked in normal positions, inside the regular vibrating length.
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