BQLZR Noiseless Good Balance 4 String Bass Pickup with 4 Color-Coded Conductors,Respond Well to Both Tonal and Volume Input

High gain, high quality pickup. Very similar tone compared to music man style pickups. Solid low, bright treble. It brought my bass to life.Don’t get fooled by the price. It is comparable to many pickups costing 10x its price.

I always wanted a Musicman Stingray, because that is my favourate bass tone... but with this, I get a great representation of that tone without the cost, and I still can use my nice old light-weight Yamaha bass.I measured the resistance of the wires to figure out which wires go with each coil. I still wired it wrong the first couple tries, probably because you can't figure out the polarity without some trial and error. I made the mistake of assuming the wire colours are the same as Seymour Duncan pickups, but they are not. When wired like that, the pickup sounded thin and full of hum in both switch settings. Eventually I wired it like this diagram that I attached and it gave a useful and full sounding tone for both Parallel and Series settings. I'd say it's worth it for the tonal options to have both Series and Parallel humbucking options if you do have a DPDT switch you can use. I kept my stock precision pickup installed and I would say it's even useful to have the option to use this pickup in combination with a typical precision bass pickup; they compliment each other well (so I will keep this layout). Or, I'd say it may be worth it to buy two of these and have one in the bridge position and one in the neck position.The tone is fat and tight. My precision pickup sounds a little rounder and looser, but I would say that is mostly due to the body position. I'd be curious what another of these would sound like in the neck position.All in all, this is a crazy good value... especially now that I have given the proper wire colours for wiring a series/parallel switch.

取り付ける楽器の音がしっかり出る。音質は大人しく感じる。ドンシャリでもなく、ブリブリにもならない。フラットな出音。ただ、ローはデカい。しかしプリアンプなどでローを上げるとオーバードライブをかけた時みたいな、音圧に曇りが掛かる感じがある。安いベースに最初から付いてくるピックアップよりは確実に良い音が出る。芯があり、音程感もあり、立ち上がりも早い。クセは本当にない。スイッチを取り付けて、シリーズ、パラレル、タップが出来るように取り付けた。アクティブ回路で味付けが出来るサーキットを搭載するのがおすすめ。バルトリーニとか、スティングレイの標準のサーキットとか。ナチュラルなサーキットは、変化が乏しくて面白くない。むしろパッシブが好み。パッシブにして、250KΩ、47kμfが好みだった。ハムバッカーだから500KΩ、22kμfが定番だけど。

This pickup really sounds good, no question.Found the correct combination of Red/Green and White/ black wires for each potentiometer. Really sounds good with both coils engaged.

I used two of these on a Project Mehr design I modified for bass guitar. I 3d printed this guitar body. The pickups are working fine. Magnet spacing is clearly designed for bridge location. But even in the neck position they pickup really well. If you can ignore the misalignment of the strings with the magnets I was surprised at the volume of sound they put out. Wired in series (seems that how humbuckers were made to be wired since they don't buck the hum if wired in parallel) they measure 12k to 13k ohms each. I bought three of these and two are very close to 12.2k ohms. My personal preference was to use two volume pots, one for each pickup and just one tone control. I barely roll off the tone control. Often just leave them all turned up all the way. I would buy these again for this guitar but am mostly pleased with the mounting and setup in the bridge position. In fact I think I should have moved this even closer to the bridge. But hey it is sounding great to my ear.Update: Just finished another bass guitar, 3d printed body. Inspired by the Gibson Thunderbird. Added a picture.