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The Yamaha Attitude Custom bass guitar has a Mudbucker concealed beneath the pickguard. Its d.c. resistance is something over 30k.
In-saddle piezo elements have a much cleaner *hi-fi* sound than magnetic pickups. If you do not like EMG guitar pickups, you will probably not like a piezo system either. The Line6 Variax used just the piezo, processed through digital modelling technology. Thus, to get any sonic variety, you are probably going to want some sort of multi-effect processor.
It’s not something you can fix with EQ, it’s a fundamental difference in the way the pickup works and which parts of the string movement generate the signal. A magnetic pickup senses the *movement* of the string and so produces its peak signal when the string is moving fastest, at the mid-point of the vibration; a piezo senses the *pressure* of the string on the saddle and so produces its peaks when the string is at the outer ends of the vibration. You can’t make one sound like the other without digital processing. (eg Variax) Distorting the result exaggerates the difference, if anything.
If you want a conventional electric guitar sound, some sort of hidden magnetic pickup is the better way.
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For what it's worth I tried a 'stealth Esquire' and found I couldn't get a neck pickup hot enough to balance properly with the bridge - even given that the Tele bridge pickup is meant to be louder than the neck - without it being so overwound that it just sounded like mud.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I think it used a super powerful P90, as that’s the only way to get the pickup to sense the strings from under that plastic.
No idea if they sounded any good.