Wowbagger
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All my guitars still get the Seymour Duncan treatment.
I used to swear by EMG's for my basses but have found that so far the stock pickups in my SR and B6 have the oomph I desire.
Bartolini's have some kind of odd cut in the 90 to 120hz area that has never translated to an amp well for me. In my old main basses that is.
If you put them in lets say a bass with an agathis they perform very well. I think because the resonance of the wood and the pickup's eq curve compliment each other.
Schaller makes some good bass pickups actually, very even response across the board. Which I like because of my needs.
That is all from personal experience and opinion.
I digress....
Give this a go,
move your amp head ( if it's not a combo) and yourself about 15 feet in front of your cab, put the amp to your side so you can adjust it easily, sit down, take your amp eq (and bass eq) back to flat and turn that sucker up to normal practice/stage volume.
Ok, from that tone listen to what you would like more and less of.Make some notes, then go to the pickup manufactures sites and check the specs. Most of them have info on eq curve/response.
So if you need more highs or whatever you can get a pickup that will do just that.
Awesome, thanks. I'll do just that.
