How many different pickup configurations do you have?

[Will_White]

-P- Standard P bass
JJJ Triple J
H-- Neck strat humbucker
-H- Guitar blade humbucker in P position.
--H Bridge guitar humbucker
-PP double P in the Jazz positions
-S- P90ish single coil in P position
SS- Tele single coil in neck and middle position (haven't quite dialed this one in yet)

Most of my time is spent with the middle humbucker bass because it sounds great and the Triple Jazz because it looks great.

None of them have Tone controls most don't have volume controls, so I usually pick a bass just cause I want to play it and adjust my plucking or picking to get the tones I want. Sometimes I pick one for a specific vibe but not usually.

 

[foal30]

In my stable I have:
Fender Jazz, 60s spacing
Fender Jazz, 70s spacing
Fender PJ
Fender/Warmoth with an EMG dual coil in the neck, J at the bridge.
Stingray HS
Tobias with a quadcoil in the bridge position.

Hi, do you have a Tobias Growler?

 

[funkinbottom]

P
P/J
H/H

 

[foal30]

6 Bass - 5 pickup options

Steinberger L2 has double P
Tobias has "Quadcoil"
Jazz
Precision
MTD has two Humbuckers

 

[noahw1]

I own 2 J’s (4 and 5 strings), a P and a PJ. I currently gig with the Pj.

 

[pellomoco14]

JJ passive nordstrand: fretless/tapewounds

Soapbars active/passive bartolini: fretted/flats

reverse P,J EMG: fretted/roundwounds

 

[Dynomuttasaurus]

PJ - active pre
P (reverse) J - active pre
JJ - active pre
JJ - passive
PP - passive
PP (reverse) - passive
HH - passive
Soapbar (dual) - active pre

 

[packhowitzer]

Dual Soapbars (with optional piezo)
MM Single pickup
P bass
P-J bass
J bass
Electric Upright with Piezo only

The Dual Soapbars get about 90% of my stage time. I mostly record with the P bass.

 

[birminghambass]

Hi, do you have a Tobias Growler?

Yes I do!

 

[Jeff Scott]

Three, though I’d really like to add an unadulterated P....

I understand, those are overrated..............

 

[Mvilmany]

List of pickup configurations I use:

1. I have a P Bass

2. Go back to #1

 

[slowjam98]

Five basses, five configurations.

 

[Hambone70]

1. P.

 

[Tim Grant]

#1 - J/MM -by far my favourite combo
#2 - P
#3- Standard J. (I will be moding this one because it’s a feeble beast. Thinking PJ but might rout the body for J/MM)

Basement warrior,
Try wiring the Jazz pickups in a series. A little snip and solder won't cost you anything unless you want to add a switch to go back to and forth from seiris or parallel mode. Sorry in advance for the unsolicited advice.

 

[gumbynotpokey]

I have 3:

P solo
J-MM-piezo
J-J-piezo

And the P style has been the only bass I've played for about a year and a half. Flats. Passive. Fretwrap. She sounds like a dream. Tom Clement did me right, as I've said many times before.

 

[Tim Grant]

I have 3 basses. Each one gets chosen depending on the band I am supporting. I still feel like I need a P bass configuration. I do not have a bass that has the same pickup configuration as another in my arsenal.
1. Dual Soap Bar Active
2. Standard JJ configuration
3. Single MM style humbucker

 

[bordinco90]

Strictly P's for me...

 

[God's Favorite Bass]

Precision, both the split coil and single coil, Jazz, and Fender Fidelitron. That's it for me.

 

[And I]

PJ
Jazz
P/MM
J/MM
MM

Mostly I play the P/MM, at least half the time with the P solod.

 

[Charlzm]

I have a Lakland Skyline JO and I am looking to buy a second bass. I have been considering a Sandberg TT, but I wonder if it's too similar since they're both JJ configurations. Maybe I'll buy a P-style bass instead.

Do you own multiple basses with the same pickup configuration? Or do you try to have a variety of pickup options available? How do you approach tone variety?

I have 7 basses and all sound different to my ears. I have combinations of JJ, PJ, soapbars with single coils, and soapbars with split coils. My favorite sounding combination is a bass with two passive Nordstrand Big Splits - neck is an Alnico V and bridge is Alnico III. Both pickups full on and with tone full up on both.