Baseplates

[varkunus]

Hello there just wondering what a bassplate is, as far as I am aware it is a device you fit to SCs which fattens up their tone? Can this be fitted to any pickup and if so how?

Rich

[gwEm]

telecaster pickups, P90s and humbuckers already have baseplates fitted. strats single coils don't.

i'm no expert, but the baseplate seems to give body and meat to the tone, especially in the bridge, whilst remaining typically single coil

i've a slowhand bridge with a baseplate and it sounds "well meaty" (quote from Will) - theres a clip in the forum, though i haven't really captured the 'in the room' sound very well. it sounds like a sort of cross between a P90 and a strat i think.

so i say 'yes' to baseplates - though i don't know if they'd be needed on something like a sinner or trilogy.

maybe you can retrofit them - they seem just to be screwed on. don't know for sure - ask tim about that.

[WezV]

Hello there just wondering what a bassplate is

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[_tom_]

Well if my p90s are anything to go by, baseplates are the way forward! It sounds singlecoily but so much beefier, I dont know why they even make non-baseplate singlecoils :P

[varkunus]

so its difference between say a surf sound and a sort of more rounded sound of the neck pup in trademark by eric johnson.

[gwEm]

no, not really. its hard to explain, i'm not even sure myself what it does to the EQ curve.

a bridge pickup with baseplate still gives a bridge pickup sound. could definately do surf with it still. it just has more guts and body - especially with gain. its not really more rounded... but if you load a gain on a standard strat bridge i've always found it can get lame, thin and harsh, with a baseplate its much less susceptible to that sort of thing.

if you want a ventures maybe don't go for baseplates. blackmore for example, is more suited to having baseplates.