3 pup jazz bass?

[bfc]

My main bass is a Godin Shifter 5 string. It's a beast with three single coils

 

[bfc]

Here's a pic of the Godin pickups upclose

 

[phillybass101]

The late great Mark Adams of Slave:

AMEN!!!! First thing i thought of when the OP mentioned 3 pups on a jazz. A killer and very aggressive combo. I don't know why more people have not tried it. Then there is bootsy of course.

 

[hands5]

AMEN!!!! First thing i thought of when the OP mentioned 3 pups on a jazz. A killer and very aggressive combo. I don't know why more people have not tried it. Then there is bootsy of course.

proably because you really have to do it right so it's proably hard to find someone who could do it the right way and hopefully not charge you fortune for doin it,but I'm sure someone is proably trying it out as we speak.

 

[ex-tension]

...I was going for a jazz bass look and feel.

Something like this?
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[line6man]

If you're going for the three-pickup option, make sure you use 500K pots, minimum (1M pots would be ideal if you're going Vol-Vol-Vol-Tone). This has to do with pickup loading - resistance parallel to the pickups created by the controls, which is at its highest with all pots fully open. The lower the total loading, the duller the bass will sound, the higher it is, the brighter and more hi-fi the bass will sound.

When you turn all the pickups up, with 250k pots the total parallel resistance would be 72,5k - that's very low.
With 500k pots there'd be 125k parallel resistance - close to what Fender has on their reissues for the vintage tone.
With 1M pots the loading gets up to 250K which is used in modern basses with a brighter sound. It's up to you.

And it's true, the more pickups you have the more notch filtering happens between them. Notching happens anytime you sense one thing (string motion, in this case) with multiple sensors (pickup coils, in this case) because they don't sense it the same way. But depending on where you put the neck pickup, you are very likely to get a usable "all-on" sound.

Where did you get those numbers? It's 83.33k, 166.67k, and 333.33k, respectively.

 

[BobBass56]

Will this work?