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better than the wall-of-mud

sometimes I love the hi-gain and sometimes I wish it would just turn into a Gibson EB-O neck pickup that's just solid bass.

I actually had a Sidewinder on one of my 4001's.

You can see the BIG hole... I hate to say that it weakened the neck a bit, which changed the action. It sounded good though!

"As far as the toasters, the low gain units would have a wider frequency range, but less output. The more you wind on a coil, especially past 8k for a single coil, starts to roll off highs and enhance the lows and mids."

This is EXACTLY what i was wanted to hear! I'm looking for precisely that: both a wider freq. range, and lower output.. thank you, David!

Yeah, didn't Cliff Burton have both hi-gains and a Gibson Sidewinder in his bass? That bass sound was amazing!