Description
The M55CBC-B is Bartolini’s Classic Bass Series answer for players who want humbucker quiet without sacrificing the shimmer up top. Housed in the familiar M5 soapbar shape — the same footprint as the EMG 45 — it drops straight into instruments already routed for that format, making it a natural swap or upgrade choice.
- Dual coil (humbucking) design for hum-canceling performance
- 5-string neck position pickup
- M5 soapbar housing, shaped to match EMG 45 dimensions
- Covers 66mm to 78mm string spacing on medium curvature fingerboards
- 4-conductor wiring for flexible series/parallel/coil-tap options
Where a lot of dual-coil bass pickups can feel closed-in or dark, Bartolini tuned this one to push more air into the upper frequencies and open up the resonant peak. That translates to a neck pickup that still growls and thumps like a proper humbucker but doesn’t smother the string articulation — useful whether you’re locking down a groove or letting notes bloom on a fretless-style attack. The 4-conductor setup means your wiring options aren’t locked in at install; you can configure it for full humbucking output or experiment with split-coil tones depending on how your control cavity is wired.
Built to Bartolini’s usual standards, it’s a solid pick for 5-string players looking to refine their low-end clarity without losing that characteristic Bartolini smoothness.
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