MIMF

Most all my builds are single pickup. The current one is a bass guitar. I have an engraved tele control plate from eldorado. I also have an old Yamaha super switch.

Looking for a humbucker bass pickup that sounds great as a single coil with coil cutting.

then looking for some effective onboard electronics such as an optical compressor.

the purpose is to push the envelope of a 1pu elect.
It might be that the 2-pots are active or passive tone control and the switch will be an onboard efx that switches in and out and has presets.
Obviously the pots can be push pull.
So do you know of humbucker pu for bass that sound good in single coil too?
Do you have recommendations for onboard efx or ideas for my project.

Another approach is to use a vintage single coil pu, but if I do, just wondering what creative wiring or onboard fx will work. This is my first bass guitar. I normally build the bodies and buy paddle head necks. This time the cheapest option was to buy a used squire '51 classic vibe bass. when it arrives it all the hardware will be taken off and the body and neck stripped. I have most of the new hardware for it in my stock pile and nothing will be used from the donor guitar except the body and neck. So want to see how far I can go with 1 pu

Jedi,

You either want a very wide aperture pickup (2 coils far apart) or a movable pickup as in the old gibson Grabber basses.
I'd recommend a Bartolini triple coil 4 string Musicman pickup. The center coil is a "dummy coil" that gets combined with either live coil for noise free operation.
I don't know if they still make these but the sound was fantastic. Model numbers were 1E and 4E.
I found this wiring diagram on the bart website: http://www.bartolini.net/instructions/p ... wiring.pdf
Alternatively anyone could wind you a similar triple coil if you wanted to pursue that route.
The best looking movable pickup bass ever was the first Alembic bass built for Jefferson Airplane's Jack Cassidy. It was lightyears ahead of anything else.

The triple coil pu is no longer available from Bartolini drat!