Bass Pickup Positions, and Combinations - Bass With 5 Pickups

Here’s a demo of a bass I modded with 5 pickups, to test how different pickup positions and combinations (series / parallel) affect tone. In each of the sound demos, I play the same 21 example pickup combinations, in the same order. Timestamps: Fingerstyle, roundwound:  1:43 Slap, roundwound:  3:20 Pick, roundwound:  5:09 Fingerstyle, flatwound:  7:46 Discussion / conclusions:  9:38 String isolation test:  11:57 Sympathetic resonance:  12:29 Special thanks to my daughter’s LOL Dolls, who photobombed half
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