Description
The Pitbull started life as a fix for a real problem: the Metropolitan Tanglewood Bass needed a humbucker built to guitar-size dimensions, and nothing on the market fit right. Rio Grande built one from scratch, and it turned out to be the answer for a whole family of basses stuck with that same odd pickup cavity.
- Drops into Les Paul Basses, Steinbergers, Epiphones, and custom builds needing guitar humbucking-sized dimensions
- Bridge position, black cover
- 4-conductor wiring lets you split the coils for a genuine single-coil voice alongside the full humbucking tone
- Thick, powerful low end with plenty of fullness for a pickup this compact
If your bass has a humbucker-shaped hole that guitar pickups keep trying (and failing) to fill, this is the part that was actually designed for it. Run it full humbucking for weight and punch on stage, or split it for a tighter, snappier single-coil growl when a mix calls for less bottom and more bite. It’s one pickup covering two distinct tonal personalities, wired the way a working bassist would want it – no extra electronics required, just wire it up and pick your voice at the amp or via a coil-split switch.
Rio Grande has been solving this exact fitment headache for years, and the Pitbull remains the go-to swap for players whose instruments were built around guitar-sized humbucker routes but need real bass tone out of them.
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