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Excellent choice for RHCP tones as recorded in One Hot Minute
Excellent choice for RHCP tones as recorded in One Hot Minute. I had a sterling ray35 some years ago and I got tired of the tonal range of the Alnico MM pickup installed in it (there's a midrange freq that is great, but not really nice to be used in all genres). Ended up selling it. Years later I tried the cheaper Sterling Sub (4 strings) and noticed that the tonal range was the one I liked. These have the ceramic magnet, which I liked better. Decided to install this EMG and I'm the happiest bass player ever! Excellent choice for clean and od. Does.it.all!
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MM + J bonanza
That's it, I'm an EMG guy now. I've combined this with EMG P and 3 band EMG preamp with variable mids and the results are just mind blowing.
P pickup and MM pickup don't work well together in most cases as afaik some interference with P being a series pickup and MM being a parallel. With my harley benton enhanced P bass whenever I've set both pickups to 100% I got a huge volume drop and thin, weak sound.
Now it's either that EMG P and MM are wired in the same way or it's the buffer in the preamps onboard the pickups but there is not interference or volume drop. In fact, P + MM sounds HUGE. You get both sounds combined.
However, EMG P is ceramic pickup while MMTW is ceramic steel and it's a bit more "tamed" and less bright pickup. Raising it did help even out the sound, and boosting the treble on the EQ did also manage do even it even more.
Split to J pickup it sounds like a J should but with extra width: more, wider bass, more highs and somehow they seem wider.
what more is there to say, it's dead quiet both in MM or J mode, it sounds superb, it sits in a mix like a champ and the string pull is almost 0 so you can raise it all the way up without interfering string vibrations, as with previous MM pickups if raised too high I'd get this strange sound that is almost like a combination of phaser, pitch shift and overdrive
P pickup and MM pickup don't work well together in most cases as afaik some interference with P being a series pickup and MM being a parallel. With my harley benton enhanced P bass whenever I've set both pickups to 100% I got a huge volume drop and thin, weak sound.
Now it's either that EMG P and MM are wired in the same way or it's the buffer in the preamps onboard the pickups but there is not interference or volume drop. In fact, P + MM sounds HUGE. You get both sounds combined.
However, EMG P is ceramic pickup while MMTW is ceramic steel and it's a bit more "tamed" and less bright pickup. Raising it did help even out the sound, and boosting the treble on the EQ did also manage do even it even more.
Split to J pickup it sounds like a J should but with extra width: more, wider bass, more highs and somehow they seem wider.
what more is there to say, it's dead quiet both in MM or J mode, it sounds superb, it sits in a mix like a champ and the string pull is almost 0 so you can raise it all the way up without interfering string vibrations, as with previous MM pickups if raised too high I'd get this strange sound that is almost like a combination of phaser, pitch shift and overdrive
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Love this PUP
The EMG MMTW is just what I needed. I replaced a P style piuckup with a bit of extra routing. The sound is fantastic, in full humbucking mode the tone is super fat, combining the powerfull thick bass needed to back up a big band with the mids and highs to the sound from getting muddy. Ideal for banging out a powerfull bass line. But that is not the end of the story, switch to single coil mode (although there are still technically two) and the sound thins a little to give a subtley to the sound. In this configuration you basically have a Jass neck pickup. Jumping between the two is a matter of pulling the provided push pull pot.
In short the best PUP ive ever had.
In short the best PUP ive ever had.
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A really nice pickup
If you play rock metal you cant go wrong
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Very good product
This was purchased for my bassist's Korean Ibanez sr bass to replace the stock no name pickups. Day and night! Round note, presence and attack. Good for the 80's metal we play. Now my bassist don't want to buy another more expensive bass.
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Awesome pickup.
Upgraded my Harley Benton MP Enhanced with this EMG MMTW as the bridge pickup. Now i can use it as both a single and a humbucker pickup. And together with a EMG P neck pickup, my HB bass now sounds awesome. The option of using the MMTW as a single pickup adds the real J type neck sound in to the bass. The price of this upgrade is very much worth it, since this Harley Benton is quality build. And the bass is now at an other level with this good sound.
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High end sound
I bought this pickup for my Retrovibe Vantage Bass. It has modern mm tone with crystal clear mid and high ends. It was really easy to ensemble. No soldering requierd.
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Great sounding pickup well worth the price
This has the great punchy MM pickup style sound with the clarity of an active unit. The added coil split ability of this pickup is extremely useful because you can go from the MM sound to a JB pickup sound by just pulling up the included switch pot. If you combine this with a JB neck pickup, you've essentially got a J and MM bass in one instrument! The solderless system makes installation almost as easy as hooking up the wires to the back of your telly. Sure, these pickups aren't the cheapest in the world, but they are well worth the price.
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Excellent all rounder
This went into an old Musicman Sabre which had packed up some time ago when the original pickup gave up the ghost. The replacement cost of an original and other makes was prohibitive so after a bit of a look round I decided to give this one a go. To be frank, I think it's better than the original, the tonal range is superior and the whole thing has just more grunt to it. Lovely warm bottom end, scooped mids and honky highs if you want them. I'm delighted, and an old old friend has come back to life.
The pickup itself is compact, well finished and fits straight into a Musicman with very little fuss. Well worth the money. I'm tempted to have one fitted to my Jazz at the bridge, or buy a sub and put one in that. The possibilities are endless!
The pickup itself is compact, well finished and fits straight into a Musicman with very little fuss. Well worth the money. I'm tempted to have one fitted to my Jazz at the bridge, or buy a sub and put one in that. The possibilities are endless!
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Very nice sound, but installation could be difficult to a beginner.
Sounds so much better than the default pickup on my sub ray 4. Installing was pretty challenging but end result satisfies me. I have a dead knob on my bass now but thats fine.
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