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Installing Bartolini MK1 pickups??
- Thread starter JoshuaTSP
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what do you need to know? are the pots. wired? or do you need info to wire just the pick-ups? etc.
The pots are wired yes.
Just need to know how to hook up the pickups and the battery.
I have a loose green, purple, and red wire on the preamp, and each pickup has two wires.
I figure the black pickup wires go to ground, and the red on the preamp goes to the battery?
Just need to know how to hook up the pickups and the battery.
I have a loose green, purple, and red wire on the preamp, and each pickup has two wires.
I figure the black pickup wires go to ground, and the red on the preamp goes to the battery?
I didn't care for the MK1 pickups and preamp.....a widely contrasting tone to the stock system.
It actually sounded pretty good, just don't think it was right for my Phillips Bulldog bass. I think a little too scooped for my tastes. a great tone from less aggressive tones. I put the stock pickups and preamp back in.
Plus I was hesitant since I would have had to drill an extra hole for the mid pot. no thanks.
On top of that the pickups were too narrow.....so it didn't look all that great in the pickup routes either.
Found out that the stock electronics have an active preamp and active pickups.
Active pickups!
what difference do active pickups make?
It actually sounded pretty good, just don't think it was right for my Phillips Bulldog bass. I think a little too scooped for my tastes. a great tone from less aggressive tones. I put the stock pickups and preamp back in.
Plus I was hesitant since I would have had to drill an extra hole for the mid pot. no thanks.
On top of that the pickups were too narrow.....so it didn't look all that great in the pickup routes either.
Found out that the stock electronics have an active preamp and active pickups.
Active pickups!
what difference do active pickups make?
That push/pull should take you from Active (pushed) to Passive (pulled). When you are in Passive mode, you are bypassing the tone controls. When all tone controls are centered, you won't notice much of a difference between the two but when you boost/cut in active mode and then switch to passive, you should hear a big difference.
