Reasonable Approximation of DiMarzio Model P *for 5-string?*

[TonyP-]

I don't normally go for split coils, single coil P-bass is more my bag.

SCPB-1. DCR 7.98k

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SCPB-3. DCR 11.81k

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SCPB-2. DCR 14.14k

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Best not forget the extreme.

Gibson Mudbucker. DCR 30k

Can't locate a graph but I'm sure you're familiar with them. Wire count on those beauties wipes out all the highs and most of the mids.

I didn’t call the shop today (getting ready for holiday shows ) but my question to you is this…
Is there any differences between these pickups besides resistance?
Also is just wind that effects resistance?
Again I’m throwing this out there as discussion, ‘not internet debating’ I’m certainly not living in moms basement (although I wish I was).

I’m just tone nerding and I get the OPs needs.
BTW @Riff Ranger great thread for real discussion.

 

[Riff Ranger]

BTW @Riff Ranger great thread for real discussion.

I’m glad it’s worthwhile. Not bad for a dude recording originals in his daughter’s room which I suppose counts as a step up from arguing in his mother’s basement

 

[Riff Ranger]

While I have more interest in who will make a reasonable approximation of a DiMarzio Model P (or how someone crafty might go about cobbling together their own—I find that Wilkinson idea intriguing, @kodiakblair ), I do wonder why DiMarzio (apparently) won’t, and more generally why 5-string Ps aren’t a bigger deal than they are (though we have discussed that piece before). I presume in DiMarzio’s case they just haven’t seen enough interest to make it worth their while, but maybe there’s more to it.

 

[Riff Ranger]

Gibson Mudbucker. DCR 30k

Can't locate a graph but I'm sure you're familiar with them. Wire count on those beauties wipes out all the highs and most of the mids.

I haven’t played a bass with a mudbucker in decades, but I do remember one, and fondly. My buddy had a Kalamazoo when we were kids, made by Gibson(?) in Kalamazoo. It looked like a cross between an EB-0 and something by Teisco. I don’t really remember the sound but I do remember how surprised I was by how much I liked that bass. As I went for as much low end as possible at that time, the mudbucker probably suited my sensibilities then.

 

[kodiakblair]

Is there any differences between these pickups besides resistance?

Far as I know Tony , the SCPB-3 uses bigger alnico slugs.

DiMarzio Split-P vs Sixties - P have a similar pattern.

Sixties-P . DCR 13.76k

Split-P. DCR 19.16

Model P. DCR 11.54

 

[thisSNsucks]

Nordstrand power blade 5?

 

[Rick Penrose]

Yeah, I’m definitely no businessperson, but it leaves me scratching my head. I get that 5-string split-coil pickups are a niche market within the niche market of aftermarket bass pickups; but the whole aftermarket pickup thing seems like a niche market in the first place—even the bigger builders probably still meet some definition of “small business.” It seems like EMG and Seymour Duncan make 5-string versions of many of their popular pickups, though EMG’s apparent refusal to make a 5-string Geezer set has baffled at least a few players on here. I like supporting smaller operations when I can, though, so if the Nordstrands would get me in that ballpark I’ll go that route happily enough if I go through with it.

I’m considering a change in my Yamaha BB735A. The stock YGD pickups aren’t bad—to my ears they even sound like the Model P and Model J, only mellow, if you can imagine that—but I don’t really do mellow unsurprisingly the stock pickups pair well with the stock preamp and I can get a sound I like, but I would love the option of running passive and still sounding burly. Since it sounds good as-is with the preamp engaged I’m in no hurry, but neither is DiMarzio, it seems.

I was looking for the same, and ran into the same issue. I ended up going with a set of Delano pickups and I am very happy with them.

 

[Riff Ranger]

I was looking for the same, and ran into the same issue. I ended up going with a set of Delano pickups and I am very happy with them.

Which ones?

 

[Rick Penrose]

Which ones?

PMVC 5 FE/M2 ... ceramic ......dropped right in as a replacement pu on my Sire P5. Delano has lots of 5 string options though