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Fretless bass pick ups


willyf87
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I have a set of Villex pups on my Squier VMJ fretless which I can highly recommend. They have a very different sound to regular pups ranging from a fundamental tone not unlike an upright bass (with the mid-tone control rolled off) to nasally jaco-esque tones (with the mids up). I've also heard good things about DiMarzio Model Js for fretless (not Super Js). Plan to try these myself sometime soon but haven't yet.

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Villex look definitely more than i want to spend!!! EMG may be worth a look, I was having a look at the wizard pick ups, seems to be a few bits and bobs about them on here as well maybe worth a try. I wish I could try loads out but you can't really do it without spending some serious dough!!!

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I went for the Hammers - which Wizard stats are loud, dark and dirty - because they were going into a bass with a maple body, ebony cap, and maple neck with an ebony fretboard, so it needed some taming in the high end. Here's a link with some sound-clips. The first set of clips, with flatwounds, were recorded with Bartolini's. The roundwound clips were recorded with the Wizards.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=53343&hl=ernie"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=53343&hl=ernie[/url]

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I've got the same bass as you ( Vintage fretless ) when I was looking to put some new pups on I have always liked the Seymour Duncan in the past so decided to try a set. Did a bit of investigating and decided on a set of SD STK which I managed to get of E-Bay for £70 the set. Well pleased with them, gave that well rounded slightly fat tone but they are really clear, not muddy like some pups get.

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