T-40 pickups

[Killer Of Giants]

Rats, lost an auction on a pair in a loaded pg yesterday. Still hunting. But there are always alternatives.

I am kicking myself in the ass, in my earlier days I had a t40 pretty much given to me, I couldn't get past the look of it so I sold never realized the flexibility of them soundwise! may have to look for another one I have seen some rickenbaker emulations done with these basses pretty cool

 

[Hopkins]

Were they much different than the T-60 pickups? A common swap for those was the Carvin M22. The old Carvin humbucker basses used a similar pickup.

They are quite a bit larger than a T60 pickup.

 

[Matthijs]

If it's not the pickup heigth and some deoxit in the pots and switches won't work it might also be a bad connection. You might try touching al the soldering joints with a soldering iron.

 

[moonshinegtrs]

I built a bass (31" scale) awhile back and originally installed a T-40 pickup (blade version)... Huge sounding. Very, very hot. Almost too hot. I had roundwounds on it and the bass was loud with heavy mid range. I eventually replaced the T-40 with a Dark Star that I had; The DS had a lot more bottom end with less mids, still very powerful. I wasn't really crazy about the sound of the bass with either pickup until I put a set of flatwounds on it... Damn. The flats changed everything, that bass has become my main instrument.

I have wondered what the T-40 would of sounded like with flatwounds. I honestly liked the T-40 just as much as the DS. To my ears they sound very different. Eventually I will use the T-40 in another build.

Hopkins: I'm like you, I'll buy every T-40 pickup I can get my hands on. I think I prefer the early (no blade exposed) model, but that's just today.


Moonshine

 

[bholder]

Were they much different than the T-60 pickups? A common swap for those was the Carvin M22. The old Carvin humbucker basses used a similar pickup.

I've heard several times that they're more than "similar" - identical - that is, the 90s Carvin bass humbucker was/is the M22N. Maybe the M22T for the bridge, I'm not so sure on that.