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EMG MMTW

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Active humbucker & single coil pickup

  • For Music Man-style electric basses
  • Position: all positions
  • Two independent pickup sounds: one is a ceramic and steel humbucker pickup that lends players an incredibly rich bass sound; via a push-pull pot, the MMTW becomes a J single coil pickup with detailed presence and a strong mid-range character.
  • Connections: solderless
  • Magnetic material: ceramic
  • Cap(s): black, plastic
  • Width: 88.9 mm
  • Height: 48.3 mm
  • Unit depth: 22.4 mm
  • String spacing: 73.7 mm
  • Space between the mounting screws: 94 mm
  • Made in the USA
  • Included per order: EMG's exclusive solderless installation system: 1x push-pull pot, 1x 25k tone pot, 1x battery bus, 1x stereo output jack, 1x set of mounting screws, 1x pickup cable, 2x connection cables, 1x output cable, 1x battery cable
Available since June 2007
Item number 115595
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Active Pickup System Yes
Wiring Prewired
Colour Black
Position complete Pickguard
$83
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Excellent choice for RHCP tones as recorded in One Hot Minute
OsBassZen 22.02.2020
Excellent choice for RHCP tones as recorded in One Hot Minute. I had a sterling ray35 some years ago and I got tired of the tonal range of the Alnico MM pickup installed in it (there's a midrange freq that is great, but not really nice to be used in all genres). Ended up selling it. Years later I tried the cheaper Sterling Sub (4 strings) and noticed that the tonal range was the one I liked. These have the ceramic magnet, which I liked better. Decided to install this EMG and I'm the happiest bass player ever! Excellent choice for clean and od. Does.it.all!
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MM + J bonanza
vukrogi 16.09.2022
That's it, I'm an EMG guy now. I've combined this with EMG P and 3 band EMG preamp with variable mids and the results are just mind blowing.

P pickup and MM pickup don't work well together in most cases as afaik some interference with P being a series pickup and MM being a parallel. With my harley benton enhanced P bass whenever I've set both pickups to 100% I got a huge volume drop and thin, weak sound.

Now it's either that EMG P and MM are wired in the same way or it's the buffer in the preamps onboard the pickups but there is not interference or volume drop. In fact, P + MM sounds HUGE. You get both sounds combined.

However, EMG P is ceramic pickup while MMTW is ceramic steel and it's a bit more "tamed" and less bright pickup. Raising it did help even out the sound, and boosting the treble on the EQ did also manage do even it even more.

Split to J pickup it sounds like a J should but with extra width: more, wider bass, more highs and somehow they seem wider.

what more is there to say, it's dead quiet both in MM or J mode, it sounds superb, it sits in a mix like a champ and the string pull is almost 0 so you can raise it all the way up without interfering string vibrations, as with previous MM pickups if raised too high I'd get this strange sound that is almost like a combination of phaser, pitch shift and overdrive
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Love this PUP
Steve696 28.05.2013
The EMG MMTW is just what I needed. I replaced a P style piuckup with a bit of extra routing. The sound is fantastic, in full humbucking mode the tone is super fat, combining the powerfull thick bass needed to back up a big band with the mids and highs to the sound from getting muddy. Ideal for banging out a powerfull bass line. But that is not the end of the story, switch to single coil mode (although there are still technically two) and the sound thins a little to give a subtley to the sound. In this configuration you basically have a Jass neck pickup. Jumping between the two is a matter of pulling the provided push pull pot.

In short the best PUP ive ever had.
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A really nice pickup
Miltos Xp 09.02.2019
If you play rock metal you cant go wrong
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