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[RichterScale]

I watched few higher quality sound videos today with headphones. They were mostly guitar vids, but they all were playing with 5 way switches and going through all the configs. On every single one, I liked the series and single sounds the best. Granted they were guitars, but I was easily imagining that translating to bass.
I watched one vid where a guy played through a song and it flipped back/forth from a P to a Jazz. Honestly, the jazz sounded like a Ric, even a little brighter and punchier (he may have had some effect on it), but I thought the P sounded terrible.
I'll see if I can find the bass vid again.
Another guy used the same bridge single on a strat and kept playing with different magnets. He did ceramic with steel poles, 2 different size alnico and small neodymium discs under steel poles. That was a cool vid. The ceramic bar mag with steel poles sounded terrible in comparison.

 

[RichterScale]

This is the bass vid. Not sure if it's an effect, but the Jazz sounds great.


This is the vid with the magnet swaps on the strat.

 

[TrustRod]

That is a nice sounding jazz, I suspect it is not a hot pickup.

Ever hit the Public Peace channel? https://www.youtube.com/user/publicpeacemi

I think they do a great job of demonstrating pickup options and what they do in their demos.

 

[dwizum]

So, if I were to get these pups working and put them in the mule, in the standard Jazz bass positions, one in the middle and one near the bridge, should I still reverse the coil leads and flip the magnet on one?
Is that what they typically do on basses with 2 singles to help with noise?
Basically, just wired like a double coil humbucker that has the coils spread apart?

Yes yes and yes! As a thought exercise: A jazz bass is effectively a one-humbucker bass! The coils are just spaced out from each other, but electrically it's the same thing.

And, not to get repetitive, but you could leave the pickups as-is and use them together (same polarity, same coil direction) and they'd sound the same, only with some noise added in.

How do you like a typical MM tone? I feel like that's where I would be headed myself, given what you're looking for, if you wanted a "one pickup" bass - put the two coils next to each other in roughly the MM position and then run them together with a push/pull pot to do series/parallel. I wouldn't bother with a "single coil" option since parallel gets you close with no noise. The parallel mode would probably give you the bitey "70% bridge" tone you mentioned, and the series option would give you a power boost with more thickness. And you could put them in one wood pickup shell to mirror the Diva look.

 

[dwizum]

That is a nice sounding jazz, I suspect it is not a hot pickup.

Ever hit the Public Peace channel? https://www.youtube.com/user/publicpeacemi

I think they do a great job of demonstrating pickup options and what they do in their demos.

That's one of my all time favorite channels.

"And this is the sound..."

 

[RichterScale]

you could leave the pickups as-is and use them together (same polarity, same coil direction) and they'd sound the same, only with some noise added in

That's what initially made me ask. I placed them together and they pushed apart. I assumed that physically forcing them together, couldn't be a good thing. So, that doesn't matter or effect the field in a negative way?

 

[dwizum]

Putting two magnets next to each other in the same polarity (i.e. so they physically repel each other) basically squishes the field so the flux lines that would have been "between" the magnet are now perpendicular to a line drawn between the magnets, if that makes sense. Counter intuitively, it puts a stronger field up where the strings are, although the difference is likely to be so small you might not notice it. But I would not purposefully use pickups of the same polarity that close to each other, I'd just flip one and make them a humbucking pair. There's really no reason not to, at the end of the day.