Music Man pickup

[infrared72]

I really love the sound of the music man style humbucking pickup. I had an OLP that I sold last year, but I kinda miss the rock sound of that pickup. OLP's are cool, but they seem to be pretty subjective - some better or worse than others.

I have looked at the ESP/LTD Surveyor basses, but what other basses are out there that I may not be aware of with that Music man style pickup? Probably I'm looking at below $750 in terms of price - if I had more to spend, I'd probably just get a Lakland 44-02.

-PT

 

[Rogatywka]

Take a look at the Ibanez ATK series. The ATK has a single triple-coil pickup with a selector switch. It's not exactly an MM style pickup, but with a bit of EQing it does a very passable imitation.

Also, the neck is pretty thick, even thicker than a Stingray. All models in the series are within your price range (the highest end model runs at $700, I believe).

 

[73jbass]

MTD makes a pretty nice bass with the MM configuration.

 

[poomwah]

ibanez also makes an srx2ex1 with 2 pickups very similar to mm pickups. they are about 350 new

washburn rb2000 has a mm pickup, they run about 400 or so when you can find them

 

[ciubz]

i recomend Lakland skyline 5502 only if u're ok with the 35' scale, find a older model with bartolini pickups and preamp.
Also a great MM style bass is Ibanez RDgr(roadgear) they discontinued the model for some reason, but these basses are great. The higher the series the better, because they had bass-lines pickups instaled. both basses are MM/J, active 3 band with coil tap switch

 

[Jazzbassman23]

Why not just get a used Stingray. I've seen them in the $750 range. If you look, you might be surprised. Don't overlook the Sterling.

 

[frankie5string]

There's actually a small difference in the sounds of the three MM pickups... the sterling and the Stingray 5 are more or less identical. For "authentic" stingray tone you really have to look at a plain USA-Made 4-string stingray... That little extra "clack" the pickup makes is what "classifies" the "Music Man" bass sound!

You could probably order a MM bass pickup and electronics from Ernie Ball and stick it into whatever 4 string you pick, as long as the pickup cavity can be shaped to accept it.

I didn't find Bartolini MMs to sound quite the same - it's more a case of having the Bartolini sound in a bass that would normally take the MM pickup!

You should have hung onto that OLP - looks like it'll become a rarity now that OLPs contract with Ernie Ball has expired and it appears it wont be renewed! So OLP will kinda disappear...

 

[58super]

EBMM won't sell pickups and preamps unless it is for an existing EBMM bass. Necks too.

 

[spade2you]

Nordstrand and Delano both make a MM style pickup. Haven't heard how close they are to the actual MM pickup.

 

[bassmanrocke]

Just recently tried out a new double buck OLP with actives. Floored me. Played through an Eden amp I honestly thought it out-performed the equivalent MusicMan. You might want to give OLP a second chance, and at under $400 you can't really go wrong.

 

[Lemoore-on]

Carvin also makes a MM style pick up. I'm building a B4 kit right now that has a J/MM configuration.

 

[Darkstrike]

Plenty of Corts have them, Trabens, Warwicks, you have millions of options for that type of pickup.

 

[2lim]

Why not buy an MM SUB? They ARE a music man, and are in your price range.

Simon

 

[GreyBeard]

Nothing sounds like a StingRay but a StingRay. Why get an immitation when you can get the real thing?

 

[Jazzbassman23]

To echo what has been said, EBMM will definitely NOT sell you a pickup. Believe me I've tried most of the other MM pickups on the market, and NONE of them sounds even remotely like a Stingray.

 

[spade2you]

To echo what has been said, EBMM will definitely NOT sell you a pickup. Believe me I've tried most of the other MM pickups on the market, and NONE of them sounds even remotely like a Stingray.

Did you use the same placement and/or a similar pre-amp?

 

[phunku]

u cud try the warwick double buck my friend, they about 600 i think