Q about soapbar PUPs

[Unperson]

Sorry guys, I'm a guitar player.

Just about to pull the trigger on this bass for my wife:

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IDK what "Soapbar" PUPs are. Are they just overwound SC PUPs
like my P-90's? Noisy like them? Sound much different than the
SC's in her Jazz bass?

Ran a search, but didn't find much. She does like Tool/Korn/
Limp Bizkit/ Rollins type stuff, if that matters.

Thanks!

 

[fullrangebass]

Soapbar refers to the shape/size of the pickups not to the actual coil size or shape. It's just the housing in which the coils reside. The coil(s) could be one (single coil) or two (in P-shape arrangement, or in side-by-side arrangement linked in series or parallel configuration). I am not familiar with the pickups of this model (or any model of this line really) but judging form the "superior output" description offered, I guess they are dual-coil linked in series.

 

[Stealth]

Soapbars are basically black boxes of bass pickups - literally. You can see the outside shape, but there's no telling what's inside. They might be single-coils similar to J-pickups, they might be offset split-coil humbuckers like P-pickups, they might be in-line split-coil humbuckers like some modern J-pickups, they might be dual-coils like MM-pickups, they might be stack-coils (again like some modern J-pickups) - hell, just about ANYTHING can fit under the hood of a soapbar.

edit: Too slow. >_<

 

[Mark Wilson]

Moved to Pickups.

 

[Unperson]

My apologies, didn't see there was a forum for PUP's