I've been working from home for 28 weeks now, and starting to hatch bad ideas.
My P Bass has sort of 'split in two'. The neck on it is now on my Jazz Bass, and I replaced the body with a white P Bass body.... so that leaves this sunburst body looking for a purpose in life:
(https://i.imgur.com/JochDGz.jpg)
I've been messing around with neck pickups in basses for years. I've chopped up a fair few basses to add extra pickups. My plan is to install a Roswell-branded mini humbucker in the neck position on this P Bass.
(https://images.musicstore.de/images/1600/roswell-pickups-rk-vintage-toaster-pickup-bridge-chrome_1_GIT0051191-000.jpg)
They've cheekily made it look just like a Rickenbacker Toaster pickup. I already have one of these pickups in my 4003 and it sounds pretty good! Darker than a normal Rick pickup, but in such a tonal 'dead zone' this isn't really a problem. It delivers lots of low end.
I'm sticking one of these in the bridge position:
(https://images.musicstore.de/images/1600/roswell-pickups-qpa-split-coil-alnico-v_1_BAS0009307-000.jpg)
Its a Roswell 'QPA' pickup, which looks like a SD Quarter Pounder copy, with chunky alnico poles.
I'm going to wire it like a Jazz Bass, with three controls. I will use a 4.7 nF capacitor as a treble bleed on the bridge pickup volume control. This means that if I roll back the volume to 8 I should get a tone that is like the 'vintage' setting on a 4003 bass.
I will update this thread with photos when I get round to doing anything.
So for once I actually did exactly what I said I would do.
(https://i.imgur.com/R0y1y42.jpg)
I carved out my P Bass body and then shielded liberally with copper tape.
This gave me enough room to implement this:
(https://i.imgur.com/clr8sjo.jpg)
And this is what it sounds like:
https://youtu.be/9vZLvF2jZSs
That came out nice! :toast:
Very nice!
Not bad! Now put a bar bridge on it and you're done 8)
Nice.
A little bit Sheehan-esque.
Nice , but there should be a big gaping hole around the bridge pickup .
That looks great. Every P bass could use a neck pickup. :-X ;D
That looks and sounds great!
Fender should use that!
Quote from: morrow on October 30, 2020, 07:01:18 AM
Nice , but there should be a big gaping hole around the bridge pickup .
Time to fire up the Forstner bits!
There is a certain oomph you get from a true neck pickup that you can't really fake with cunning EQ'ing, shelving etc.
:mrgreen:
Very Cool. Lots of useable tones on tap!
Oh I like that. What are the settings on the different parts of the video? Sounds like the pickups combine pretty well!
Looks like you also changed the bridge. And bought a maple neck for it?
Totally missed the video. That thing sounds great! My favorite was the first setting, which I'm assuming is both pickups wide open?
Quote from: slinkp on November 01, 2020, 09:47:21 AM
Oh I like that. What are the settings on the different parts of the video? Sounds like the pickups combine pretty well!
Quote from: gearHed289 on November 02, 2020, 08:23:01 AM
Totally missed the video. That thing sounds great! My favorite was the first setting, which I'm assuming is both pickups wide open?
The settings are, as far as I remember.
0:00 - 0:16 P pickup 100%, Neck pickup 0%, Tone 100%.
0:16 - 0:28 - P pickup 100%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
0:28 - 0:40 - P pickup 80%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
0:40 - 0:50 - P pickup 50%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
*point at Rickenbacker behind me*
0:50 - 1:01 - P pickup 0%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
1:01 - 1:06 - P pickup 0%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 0%.
1:06 - 1:10 - P pickup 0%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
*grabs pick and plays same riff*
1:10 - 1:16 - P pickup 0%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
1:16 - 1:23 - P pickup 30%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
1:23 - 1:28 - P pickup 70%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
1:28 - 1:32 - P pickup 70%, Neck pickup 0%, Tone 100%. This shows you the solo'd P pickup with the bass being cut by the 4.7 nF cap on the volume pot.
1:32 - 1:36 - P pickup 100%, Neck pickup 0%, Tone 100%. - Full P pickup
1:36 - 1:41 - P pickup 100%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100% - Both pickups turned up full, with a mids scoop.
1:41 -> - P pickup 80%, Neck pickup 100%, Tone 100%.
From here on out I'm not sure what precise combinations I used! :rolleyes:
What a great idea! That came out really well! Looks good, sounds good. Nice to see something a but different.
That sounds amazing! Nice job!
It sounds so much better than a traditional PJ setup!