Passive MM Pickup?

[Bassdirty]

Does anyone no of a passive pickup that is similar to the "musicman" humbucker?

(for a bass without any preamp)


I did a search.

didnt find much.


Thanks.

 

[drewfunk]

Mighty Mite...
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-MIGHTY-MITE-BASS-PICKUP-DUAL-COIL-HUMBUCKER-/380167925194?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item5883c62dca

 

[Bobster]

MM-style pickups are passive. For a pickup to be active, it has to directly connect to a battery. MM pickups don't. They connect to an active preamp. So, passive pickup, active battery. Any MM replacement pickup should work fine.

Bob

 

[Bassdirty]

MM-style pickups are passive. For a pickup to be active, it has to directly connect to a battery. MM pickups don't. They connect to an active preamp. So, passive pickup, active battery. Any MM replacement pickup should work fine.

Bob

Thanks..
I do understand that, but I just didnt know if a MM pickup would be "weak" or whatever , seeing as the MMs all have active preamps...

 

[Jim C]

The OLP passive basses were made for Ernie Ball and were inepensive Ray clones; I keep missing them for reasonable pricing but have read here that they sound kinda Ray like

 

[sdoow]

Guitarfetish has a couple. Been wanting to try them myself for a while, but need to finish my other projects first.

http://www.guitarfetish.com/GFS-Bass-Guitar-Pickups_c_97.html

 

[Syco_bass]

I have one of these in my bass. Sounds awesome!!

http://www.nordstrandpickups.com/bass-pickups/index.shtml

 

[line6man]

Yes, MM pickups are traditionally passive.

 

[bongomania]

Check out SGD Lutherie, they make an awesome MM-style pup!

 

[walterw]

if you run a normal MM-type pickup in series (instead of parallel like it comes on a stingray), it will be reasonably strong and full-sounding in passive.

(seymour duncan makes straight-up repros as well. music man will not sell one separately!)

 

[Bassdirty]

Thx. 4 the help

 

[rumblethump]

I really like the Kent Armstrong MM Pickup. 13.5 ohms and sounds great no matter how its hooked up series/parallel/singlecoil.

 

[wshines1892]

I've used the MM pickup from www.guitarfetish.com and I think it sounds fantastic, even more so after I installed a pre amp.

 

[topcat2069]

I have a MM5 style Bart in my G5 Bass, with an Active / Passive Bart preamp.
In fact, with the tone controls flat in active mode,....then switched to passive mode (depending on the output gain setting of the pre) the pickup sounds the same......and I'm glad, if the two batteries happen to go dead during a performance (very doubtful) I know that the Bass will still sound the same to the end of the gig.