The Trickfish Split Coil bass pickup was built to answer the question that’s always followed split coil designs: does it actually sound like a single coil? The honest answer is that a split coil will always be slightly fuller and a touch thicker through the mids than a true single coil — that’s physics, not a flaw. What we’ve done is make that difference as small as possible while delivering something the single coil never could: complete silence when you need it.
What you keep is the openness, the articulation, the dynamic response to your touch. Dig in and there’s real punch and presence. Play lightly and it softens with you. The snap on a slap is there. The warmth when you roll back to the neck is there. The growl that lives in the midrange of a great single coil Jazz Bass pickup — that’s there too.
What’s gone is the 60-cycle hum. Gone in solo positions. Gone under stage lighting. Gone in the studio, through IEMs, at any volume. For players who need the full tonal palette of a single coil pickup available at all times without compromise, this is the pickup that delivers it.
Available in custom-molded radiused covers for 4-string and 5-string Jazz Bass formats, BC, P2, P4 and MM Soapbar shapes.
