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Stingray pick up without a pre amp?


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I've got a spare US stingray pick up ( that was going to go into a project that I didn't do) and am wondering if this would work in a satisfactory way just wired in to a basic tone and vol set up without the pre amp, or would I be losing out on most of what it can sound like used passive? 

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One thing just to be aware of is that, unlike most humbuckers, the coils in the Stingray pickup are wired in parallel and use the preamp for the tone and boost in output.  That's not a problem because it is a 4 conductor pickup but you will probably want to wire it up in series if you are going to go passive to get a 'normal' output level.

 

There's an interesting article in the Seymour Duncan blog here

https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/the-history-of-the-music-man-stingray-bass-pickup-1976-2021

 

I did a conversion to passive on @PaulS's Sterling where he asked me to also add a reverse P at the neck.  I had to wire up the coils in series to get anywhere near the P output as, in its standard parallel configuration, the Stingray/Sterling pickup had a surprisingly low resistance.

 

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1 minute ago, Andyjr1515 said:

One thing just to be aware of is that, unlike most humbuckers, the coils in the Stingray pickup are wired in parallel and use the preamp for the tone and boost in output.  That's not a problem because it is a 4 conductor pickup but you will probably want to wire it up in series if you are going to go passive to get a 'normal' output level.

 

There's an interesting article in the Seymour Duncan blog here

https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/the-history-of-the-music-man-stingray-bass-pickup-1976-2021

 

I did a conversion to passive on @PaulS's Sterling where he asked me to also add a reverse P at the neck.  I had to wire up the coils in series to get anywhere near the P output as, in its standard parallel configuration, the Stingray/Sterling pickup had a surprisingly low resistance.  Sounded great in passive, by the way :)

 

 

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