What is your next custom pickup configuration

[Randyt]

Curious to know what your favourite Pick up configuration is and if it not listed...what would it be?

 

[Technotitclan]

Went with 2 Humbuckers. A single P is a close second for me.

 

[Joebone]

Thinking about how cool it would be to have two dual coil pickups, each with independent switching for single/parallel/series, and a blend knob. Kind of a hybrid between a stingray HH and the great Roscoe Beck basses that Fender used to make. Also think about the effectiveness of the coil-switch in some Fodera basses, and the coil switching in the G&L L2000, especially if rigged to include single-coil as a 3-way option. Here, the extra mojo is being able to blend the balance between the pickups, as compared with the blade-switch or toggle approach of MM, G&L or the Roscoe Beck. I'm big on V/V setups rather than V/Blend because I dig the extra degree of control over tone, but here a master volume would probably work better because of volume differentials when a series option becomes part of the mix, and one could run just one pickup in series.

 

[Dave W]

I pretty much equally like:
PJ
JJ
MM (single H)

PJ's are getting all of my time lately, but that will switch to one of the other options in the next few months I'm sure. Last year at this time I was full time JJ, 6 months ago I was full time MM, etc.

 

[iriegnome]

I prefer 2 pickups to anything. I don't mind the PJ config or even a P/MM config. I really like a J/MM config though

 

[Nezurian]

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I love the way of two humbuckers that can be wired in series\parallel or split into single coils by 3-way switch. Amazing variety of tonal options (Don't know if one needs all those options, but it would be good to have these options even one does not wish to use'em)!

 

[PBassBear]

I have always found the P-Bass to give me all that I am looking for in a bass.

 

[Arvin]

I'm currently working on a bass with a vintage-wind split Precision pickup in the standard position, and a bridge position humbucker. The pickups were wound as a matched pair, with just a touch more output from the bridge pickup. They should play very well together. I'm going to string it with flats; I love the sound of flats with a beefy bridge pickup.

 

[darthplagis]

P+MM all the way

if i were to get another bass that would be my set up, just like my sandberg and yamaha

 

[StuartV]

Single MM.

 

[Mystic Michael]

Interesting question. IMO, pickup preferences reveal quite a bit about musical personality.

The best answer is probably that it depends upon the particular instrument - and the intended applications for it. But from a more doctrinaire standpoint, I really like matched sets - H/H, J/J, MM/MM, etc.

My favorite would be soapbar/soapbar, because I like the refined, modern vibe, plus the extraordinary quality of tone & tonal diversity that the best of the breed can now provide, i.e. Nordstrands, Delanos, Q-Tuners, etc. Just amazing stuff.

Second choice would be MM/MM. Just because...

MM

 

[ctmullins]

You actually asked two different questions.

My favorite pickup config is a pair of soapbars, for most of the same reasons that MM points out above.

But my next pickup configuration will be three Model Js. 'Cause yeah, that'd be cool.

 

[JoeWPgh]

My next project will have 2 of Curt Novak's Bisonics

 

[AaronVonRock]

I'm all about double humbuckers.

 

[Hobobob]

2 soapbar-shaped humbuckers. If I tweak it a little bit, I can get a fat Jazz tone, a reasonably close P tone, a reasonably close single MM tone, and a pretty good Jaco bridge pup tone.

 

[crazyone]

I went with humbucker/humbucker but also like humbucker/jazz.

 

[hufe]

H on bridge, P on neck.

 

[kcole4001]

Other:
2 singles ala Rickenbacker.
After that, 2 J pups.

 

[mapleglo]

Other:
2 singles ala Rickenbacker.
After that, 2 J pups.

I agree.

 

[sj_bass]

Thinking about how cool it would be to have two dual coil pickups, each with independent switching for single/parallel/series, and a blend knob. Kind of a hybrid between a stingray HH and the great Roscoe Beck basses that Fender used to make. Also think about the effectiveness of the coil-switch in some Fodera basses, and the coil switching in the G&L L2000, especially if rigged to include single-coil as a 3-way option. Here, the extra mojo is being able to blend the balance between the pickups, as compared with the blade-switch or toggle approach of MM, G&L or the Roscoe Beck. I'm big on V/V setups rather than V/Blend because I dig the extra degree of control over tone, but here a master volume would probably work better because of volume differentials when a series option becomes part of the mix, and one could run just one pickup in series.

I've actually got something fairly close to this in my Dinky Jazz... Running two Barts with a Bart Pre, I can run split 60's, split 70's, or dual. I also can run it passive or active, and my controls are V/Bl/B/T... It's very Swiss Army.

That being said, I still picked J/J - just because that's how I roll.