Can anyone explain this? I mean anytime I search for basses whether it be on ebay or cl or anywhere else and come across something with w single split-coil pup, bass coil is towards the neck of the bass and the treble coil is towards the bridge. Ibanez, schecter, spector, all have reversed split-coils on their p/j basses. Idk I guess I just find it odd and was wondering why you don't see it with single pup basses
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reverse p pickups in p/j basses
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Ric5
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Most of the time the bass coil is closer to the neck. Why? because Leo did it that way with the early p-basses. Actually the other way sounds better.
Jackson also used rev-p, even in the single pickup units 
I think it is also more logical EA strings are already bassy, so the p they use is closer to the bridge/DG strings are already trebly so they use the p closer to the neck for balance.
even the leftys are rev-p
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I think it is also more logical EA strings are already bassy, so the p they use is closer to the bridge/DG strings are already trebly so they use the p closer to the neck for balance.
even the leftys are rev-p
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+1 on the above. I'd also add that it's of additional help with the clarity of low-Bs on 5-strings with 5 string-sized Precision pickups. I have a Spector Euro Bolt-On with a set of EMG 40P5/40DC (to approximate the sound of the pre-2008 American Deluxe Precision V with it's P/DC setup until I can find my "Dream Version" on the used market and/or replace the EMGs with passive Nordstrand NP5/DC5 in EMG-sized shells) and I've found that the B has a nice strong fundamental in the "reverse position" and still gives you that "P-Bass" tonality from such a big string.
My guess would be that the effect is more pronounced when using two pickups together, as the waveforms from each pickup will add constructively and destructively at different frequencies.
I guess I missed the point of the OP, he said single pickup not P/J....so here's one of my Charvel p-basses to make it more "topic correct".
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I like the reverse P pickups.
I want my G string to sound "bassier", and to tame some of the excessive low end from the E string, so that all four strings sound more tonally similar.
The reverse P pickup seems to help get to that goal.
I want my G string to sound "bassier", and to tame some of the excessive low end from the E string, so that all four strings sound more tonally similar.
The reverse P pickup seems to help get to that goal.
Ric5
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5stringers IAN??
Hey, don't go showing off your Jackson, Kramer & Charvel at me! It's not MY fault I've got expanded horizons...
Very nice Charvel Fusion 5, if my memory serves me right. I remember Rex of Pantera using one in a video for "Psycho Holiday" off of "Cowboys From Hell", and I used to constantly stare at it in one of the catalogs of the day - I was always a fan of the Jackson Phil Collen Signature Archtop of the Hystera days, and this was basically the same shape with some beveling as opposed to the full carving the guitar got.
Hey, don't go showing off your Jackson, Kramer & Charvel at me! It's not MY fault I've got expanded horizons...
Very nice Charvel Fusion 5, if my memory serves me right. I remember Rex of Pantera using one in a video for "Psycho Holiday" off of "Cowboys From Hell", and I used to constantly stare at it in one of the catalogs of the day - I was always a fan of the Jackson Phil Collen Signature Archtop of the Hystera days, and this was basically the same shape with some beveling as opposed to the full carving the guitar got.
everyone gets it wrong.... that's a Charvel Eliminator5. They only made 100 of them and they never offered them in the catalog. I think it's ugly and a pretty good Yamaha/Collen ripoff, but it's a Jackson and rare,. so I keep it around Jackson did make 1986 units with a normal-p..
here's a Yamaha bb400s with a rev-p
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Duplo42 said:ferchristsake :scowl: all he needs are tan-lines and the pic would be beyond gross
W t f was the head photographer thinking...
...I've got a great idea that is going to bring this photoshoot to the next level...
I've got a cheap bass to restore, I think ill have this reverse scheme routed in! It makes sense.
Historically, I believe you can trace the reverse-p pickup back to the mid 1970's and the L.A. session scene. Some of the session folks, like Lee Sklar, started experimenting with p-bass pickup placement - basses with dual P pickups, etc. Those guys were playing on lots of gold records....
Yamaha starts working with many of them, and local luthier John Carruthers, on the prototype for the "Broad Bass 2000" bass. (Later referred to as the BB2000 in mass production). They did multiple tracks with lots of different pickup positions and the reverse p with j by the bridge came up the overwhelming favorite.
So, Yamaha put that configuration into its production basses (BB400, BB1000s, BB1200s and BB2000) and the rest, as they say, is history.
Yamaha starts working with many of them, and local luthier John Carruthers, on the prototype for the "Broad Bass 2000" bass. (Later referred to as the BB2000 in mass production). They did multiple tracks with lots of different pickup positions and the reverse p with j by the bridge came up the overwhelming favorite.
So, Yamaha put that configuration into its production basses (BB400, BB1000s, BB1200s and BB2000) and the rest, as they say, is history.
My 1987 Fender Power Jazz Bass Special has a reverse P pickup.
