New SG bass, sounds soo mean, pickups or scale?

[Chris P.]

Some modern Duesenberg basses have the normal six pole guitar humbuckers.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

In general, the more wire you wind around a stronger magnet, the more the inductive potential rises and hence, so does the output voltage, while the high frequency response decreases. The inductive value of the wire is the filter's corner frequency, acting as a lowpass.  The magnetic field strength of the poles determines the overall amount of current, and hence, low end output. That's why Gibson mudbuckers are mudbuckers; they're much stronger and larger pickups than Fender-style pickups.

[Aussie Mark]

Getting back to the SG RI, I'm still very impressed with mine.  For a lightweight bass it has a lot of authority, and I'm getting used to the short scale.  Gigged it again on Friday night with my Stones tribute band, and with both pickups on full I'm the one in the driver's seat.

[copacetic]

I have the Supreme that because of the maple top and mahogany back has a slightly 'taughter' sound which I really like. You might even say it is the shortscale variation of the TBIV with all it's inherent shortscale advantages.