Why PJ, Why Not Precision and Big Split or Soapbar

[Jesús David]

IMO I've never liked a pbass with j PUPs, or vice versa. The sound is really nice, but it looks visually... Awkward.

 

[Nic.]

I have a Nordstrand NP5 (reverse) and a Big Split (70's position) in my VJ5. Sounds great. Cuts but fatter than a J, and no hum.

Wow I love that spin on a classic design!

 

[Mugre]

On my Jaguar SS, I don't find the J useful by itself at all. I wind up using it as a tone control for the p and usually wind up around 70/30 P/J respectively. I'm thinking about doing a quarter pounder just for the J since the bass doesn't lend itself to a boutique pick-up. If I did an original build I would seriously consider a QP P and a medium hot dually J.

Kurt

 

[Thumper]

IMO I've never liked a pbass with j PUPs, or vice versa. The sound is really nice, but it looks visually... Awkward.

This was kinda my point, but I just can't get behind a singlecut with just a P, so the big split will be for visual balance, but if I do use it, it will be as a "tone control" for the P.

 

[knigel]

Here's something you don't see too often--a Fenderbird with a DiMarzio P and a Peavey T40 pickup.

 

[VinnyIuspa]

My dream bass would be a four string musicman bongo with a p pickup in the neck position and a humbucker in the bridge position. Wow, that would really be amazing......

 

[Nephilymbass]

It'd be fun to do sort of a P/'Ray configuration, though I guess you'd need to attenuate the humbucker a bit. That could be achieved via internal trimpot or something.

Or a triple-coil pickup like in the Ibanez ATK's (don't recall who they got the idea from) for some cool switchable tone control.

ESP surveyor had a Musicman style and p style pickups. Active EMGs though. They are discontinued now and we're replaced by the AP basses with HH duncans but the surveyors were like a p bass with no pickgaurd and a different but still classy headstock.

 

[DigitalMan]

Pat Wilkins offers another variety of a PJ pu combo (pic courtesy of tb'r MasterMonkeyMan)

That looks like the "I don't want to bother with too much routing" design.

 

[spade2you]

I have a few P/J basses. Will be ordering a fretless 6 string from Cliff Bordwell with a P pickup and a Bigman at the bridge. Stoked.

 

[AciDBatH666]

I'm rockin my Carvel 3B with emg active pjs. I dig the tone. Plus I just put a Darkglass preamp in it and it kills for tone.

 

[Watchootognbout]

Fender did make a Precision with a soapbar in the bridge.P-Bass Lyte Deluxe.

 

[gr8avocado]

I'm really liking these new Schecters. Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder at neck and MM style at bridge. One knob is a 4 way rotary switch and the volume knob is push/pull series/paralell for the MM pup.

 

[Maxdusty]

The new Ibanez Talman TMB300 has the double J. Also has a nifty switch to do the bridge pickup in series or coil tap.

 

[Munjibunga]

Dunno, why not? Seems like it makes sense.

 

[Doctor J]

I like the nasal twang a single bridge J gives to the P sound, it's a great sonic combination, but I'm also a fan of the reverse P too. A bridge humbucker tends to give a bit more meat, but you're getting plenty of meat off the P so twang, I say, twang is where the goodness is.