How do bass guitar pickups sound with electric guitar strings?

[nameslot]

This is really just out of curiosity that me and a friend have been wondering. Not such as taking a bass pickup and slapping it on a guitar. More like taking a guitar and adding a bass bridge, or nut made for guitar string but with only four slots like a bass, and then stringing in only four strings. I love playion guitar more, but i love bass guitar tone. Im just wondering if this could be a good idea, bad idea, or could go either way.

[lowfront]

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[Alchemy]

It sound as though guitar string on bass guitar pick up is like not bass guitar but found by bass guitar pick up on the amplifier but in world where there no girls?

[shotglass75]

Scott Lucas from Local H has his guitar set up with Bass pickups for the top 2 strings I believe and the sound is great.


http://www.thegearpage.net/board/arc.../t-243817.html

"This is kind of what Scott Lucas of Local H does--play bass and guitar from one instrument through multiple amp set-ups. Scott's rig is a bit more physically invasive, though. He routes his guitars to fit a bass p-up under the E and A strings, running an output to a 2nd jack. That output goes through an octave pedal set to 100% wet and into an SVT. The "regular" guitar output goes to his guitar pedals and amps. The resulting sound is pretty damn amazing--you'd swear there was a bass player playing along with him. Of course, part of making this work is being a creative arranger and finding chord patterns that allow you to integrate the E and A for bass lines. Lucas makes it work amazingly well, though I suspect you're looking for something less guitar-destructive"

and

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB3/vie...4765edbad7c3b5

[guest-5666]

it sounds fine, just make sure you don't buy too high a guage of strings or else youll be snapping shit left and right

[menikmati]

This thread is spam!

[TomAz]

If only a moderator would delete it.

[reverb]

go for a baritone guitar.

i've got a gretch (that's normally like a fender bass vi, which is tuned in e) but i restrung it to be more of a classic baritone (tune to b) i did this because when it was in e and i made noise high up the neck, it sounded like a wanky bass, not what i was going for. with the baritone strings, it has the brightness of a guitar, with the warmth of a bass at the lower registers.




EDIT: nevermind spammer

[Chaplipman]

^ Beautiful guitar. Do you know what model Gretsch that is?

[reverb]

it's a current production model G5265. i couldn't find one local, so i took a chance and got it mail order about a year ago. i love it. it's a bit of an adjustment chording with the longer scale length, but well worth it.