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beest pickups for slap and pop style
- Thread starter ecufunk
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It depends entirely upon the design and the bass they're in (+onboard electronics) plus what your idea of "best" is: try getting consensus on that around here.which one have the best sound for slap and pop mm humbucker, single coil, soapbar, dual coil.....
You might also want to know, that soapbars are just shapes (and there are quite a few different ones) and iinside there may be any number of variations on coil, magnet and winding configurations. For example, I have some EMG35 shaped soaps that have a P pickup potted into them.
Really what you are going to want for slap is a clear sounding pickup that is very hi-fi. IMO, I like the sound of Neodymium mags for slap because they have great frequency response and have a very clear tone. Unfortunately there aren't many pickup makers that use Neo mags. The companies that I know of that currently make Neo pickups are Q-Tuner (great pickups btw), Delano, Dingwall, Lakland, and EBMM.
If you can't use any of the pickups listed, then I would go for any pickup that produces a clean sound. I hear Nordstrand Dual Coils are really nice. Maybe you can start there.
If you can't use any of the pickups listed, then I would go for any pickup that produces a clean sound. I hear Nordstrand Dual Coils are really nice. Maybe you can start there.
