Maybe the article who attributed it to Seth was wrong, or Seth did it and never brought it to market. Makes me look dumb lol
They do sound good. Sound better in a mid body position than a neck, and a very rock sound, not very flexible. I have a WRH in a Mustang
It’s not dumb at all! It’s one of those things that would be technically accurate, but it’s just that beyond company marketing (Gibson, Gretsch, or SD), the term “humbucker” is now associated with dual coil pickups with general tonal characteristics.
a little Ale on a Mustang with a WRH for example
I’d like to see that triple humbucker bass 
I thought you’d never ask 
It’s a heavily modded Harley Benton MV-4MSB short scale:
It’s an absolute monster!!!
This is what it was before the mod:
You’ll find the origin story of this bass (and two other basses - same model, different colour) here:
This one is HHH, the other is P/H (the Humbucker also switchable, making the bass either PH oder PJ) and a P/J that I converted to fretless. I’m not 100% happy with the fretless though…
That looks sexy!!! Is it active or passive?
Maybe one day I’ll let you mod one for me 
Also, be sure to send a sound/video demo of that bass
It’s 100% active! I don’t get the active vs passive discussion, really.
I had several passive PUs, some “normal” active EMGs … and now the active X series on all “official” basses.
I find the X phantastic, cause of extended headroom, which to me means: I can have a lot of (lower/higher) frequencies to play with in post production. I’m sure this is also interesting if you use pedals and amps to torture your tone.
But I’m just a sofa/park player, so ignore me
Yeah, I was planning to make a cover, where I demonstrate all possible single/dual/off combinations in dry mode, but I’m too lazy for the effort.
What I can say about tone is: a friend of mine, who is actually a great bass player (and plays in a real non-cover band) played the bass this summer and he was like: “Whoaaaam - that’s too much!!!”.
He plays 5 string long scale, usually, the very expensive kind.
But he was like a little pathetic kitten and turned down the neck volume, so he would not faint and pee his pants
When he woke up from coma (and I had drawn some male body parts on his face while he was out), he played my bass all day (without the neck Humbucker), while I helplessly fumbled his custom boutique bass.
To be serious: this bass is very flexible … it can be played in “grandma’s baking cookies” jazz bass mode or in total world domination triple Humbucker “in your face” mode … and everything inbetween.
Did I mention that I really love this bass?
Modding is really easy, but there are some learnings you have to go through.
This bass is the pinnacle of my learning curve, and if I had the money, I would redo it, to make it perfect (you’ll notice some side effects of my learning process in this one).
I was asked to mod basses several times now, and it’s not that I don’t want to … I find modding a way to make a bass truly yours. It’s like a relationship: you wouldn’t want some other guyto “optimize” your relationship, right?
So, do it yourself! And start a thread about it, so everybody can comment
Well, I prefer passives over actives because I hate switching batteries (That’s my type of lazy) and god forbid the batteries die mid-play.
I actually wanted to save up money for a Fender Modern Player Tele Bass, but since you posted this idea, I might visit my local guitar builder (or you) to mod one out for me in 2026 :D.
Maybe this humbucker idea is something for my stoner/groove metal band from my previous post.
Hahaha, yeah its happens and it is a TRAP! Everytime I fall for it. The tone deteriorates or nothing happens. Total silence.
And then I start debugging EVERYTHING, except battery! Very stupid.
For a gig: always replace the battery!!!
Don’t!!! Do it yourself, really. I have two left hands and am a f#cking academic with no powertools.
If I can do it, you can do it! I only went to a luthier to route, cause you can’t do it with a Dremel (not that I didn’t try :-))
You’re always welcome in Hamburg though!
But you can also ask here (and if you speak German: try bassic.de - there are many really knowledgeable freaks and nerds there)
Normally I’d consider this, but since my local luthier lives 10 minutes away from me and is very cheap (due to his tax-free arrangement with the gov) + sometimes helps me out for free, I’m good for now
Ah, same here!
I have a punky-funky luthier around the corner. He loves/hates what I do to my basses - when I enter his shop he’s like: “Oh nooooooo!” (and grins).
Routing is cheap (about 40€). I often come for a 5 minute question and stay for a three hour answer. I really learned a lot from him…
He’s great!
My local luthier is one of those old 60’s grandpa’s. He’s actually specialized in custom pickups and pickup restoration, but does some modding on the side. He swears that Squiers are actually better than Fender (except for the electronics).
Also, he made a custom telecaster guitar with a 3D printed body and a neck from leftover pallet wood. That’s how he proved to me that tone is not in the wood, but more pickup (placement) and playing style. Might show a picture in the future.
F#ck you - soon I’m also one of those “60s grandpas”
Sounds like an interesting guy - you are from the southern (pseudo-Belgium) part of the Netherlands, right? Where the “G” is soft and the mountains high?
Didn’t say it was a bad thing 
I’m from Brabant, yes. Not far from the capital Den Bosch. And yes, we used to belong to Catholic Hispaniards back in the 80 years war together with Belgium.
Some of my favourite people came from Brabant, no worries!
I’m not sold on triple humbuckers yet, dual humbuckers sure. But I think getting a custom bass built is a wonderful thing. And that you would be disappointed with a Fender tele bass. The wide range humbucker is a vibe, but not very versatile.
Think of it as a bass where you can select the combination of positions you like for a certain sound. So one bass can have totally different configs. It’s maximum flexibility!
The Fender Modern Player Telecaster Bass has it’s pickups close to the neck and to the bridge, while the Spector Bantam 4 (the bass I used as a reference for my initial mod) has the pickups close to the bridge and in a middle position.
I can mimick those configurations by setting the volume of either the middle or neck pickup to zero.
And due to the single/dual coil mode I can switch to jazz bass mode … not that I would ever do that
You really don’t need to use all three pickups at 100% simultaneously. That would be totally nuts. I do it & love it!!!
At some point you should give it a Christmas present to replace the puttied pickguard with a custom cut solid one (and then wrap it like you did this one). All in all you took the hardest possible path to get there but in the end it turned out great
Funny thing is: I went through so much with that pickguard that this would be the last thing to replace. I touched it in ways you can’t imagine
It’s my Barney Pickguard ™ 
Love the Flea bridge. If you have the mute kit on that bridge I highly recommend that you round the sharp corners, highly recommend. They are like sharp cutters, don’t as me how I know. 
