The same can be said for my current main bass, the Lakland Decade. Now, I quite like the tone of a neck pickup with lots of mid and treble EQ'd in (think Rickenbacker), but unless you play with a pick it easily becomes quite undefined and as a result it's usual to blend in a bit of the bridge pickup to get that attack. Great for certain types of music, but on the whole, more mid is required. you can't tell what note is being played very easily. The result is that whilst you get a lovely deep rich sound solo'ed, in a band setting it turns into an indiscernable mush - i.e. the pickup on the end of the neck is missing because for most people it's quite muddy with little to offer in the top end. Re: pickup position, theres actually a huge variety of tone between the pickups even close together and I think it is more noticable on a bass - due to being an octave down, the harmonics extend way out of hearing range on both so you have another octave of audible harmonic content.Ĭomparing a Jazz bass to a Stratocaster guitar for example you have the bridge and mid pickups. Aside from the noise cancelling properties of a humbucker, they tend to produce a much thicker (some say muddier) tone.įor those who like a lot of treble (pickers, slappers etc.) single coil pickups provide a better attack that can punch through the sound of a full band.
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