Split pick up height 'angle' on a P

[jbrew73]

I’m completely with you on the deaf part. I’ve always been tone deaf and now I’m all deaf. Lol

Not sure what strings you mean. In my experience I never noticed that issue. I would angle the D & G side of the J bass pick up a bit closer to the strings. But the level magnets never bothered me. Obviously the conventional wisdom is to angle the P bass pick-up to the fret board, but some knowledgeable folks on here have suggested otherwise and when I tried it I found that to be the case. Not trying to argue with you just pointing out an alternative approach to setting P bass pick ups that worked for me. Of course, I'm half deaf so what do I know.

 

[NoiseNinja]

Depends on the specific pickups, the specific strings and the specific radius and not least individual saddles height of the specific bass in question.

I personally found that you usually need to have the A and D strings side on the two halves of a P pickup higher than the E and G string, though this was more true for the EMG Geezer Butler pickup I have currently installed than the DiMarzio Model P P pickup that I had previously installed, where the output was more even, and the difference between the respectively the E and G side and A and D side needed to be less prominent to obtain equal output between the strings.

If it sounds right it by far most likely is, and what you describe certainly doesn't sound uncommon to me.

 

[tvbop]

No need to get too precious about this stuff...I tweak my PU's every other week...Some days they sound best flat other days I'll notice the E sounds quiet so I'll give it a tweak....I always have a phillips driver handy and some allen keys...its a good habit to get into instead of paying someone else to turn the screws.