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[Mudfuzz]

WAY COOLLLLL

[warwick.hoy]

that's two pages of great stuff. i love people who mod fearlessly with hand tools

Man, you guys were dead on about the MM pickup. Thank you Mud for the suggestion and dudes for the input. I REALLY dig it. This GFS one is quite hot so I had to lower it farther than expected. A higher-end MM pickup would probably be the shit, the DOUBLE shit, but this is all my budget can allow for right now, so I'm very happy with it!

It adds quite a bit of bass and badass...ness to the existing middy sound from the P pickup (Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound), it's great. The two compliment each other very well. Solo'd it isn't as thin as a bridge J which I have never been a huge fan of. I feel that if it were a neck J with MM bridge the tone might end up being a little too mid-scooped for my tastes so the P blends perfectly.

I like it in the bridge position so much more than the P or the J I had on hand (taken from my Jaguar Bass...those pickups felt lifeless to me)
To be honest, later in the day after I put that P pickup in, a melancholy feeling washed over me. I felt like I had "dishonored" my guitar with this weak modification, it was bad! This time I've atoned. The other P did not belong in there at all, maybe dual P will work on another bass, but it's not happening here. I'm all about it now. Everything is right again!



Again I used the chisel, however this time I had some help from a fancy-pants electric tool, a Dremel with a grout removal bit which I (mis)used to make a channel for the wires to run into the main cavity. I know the "rout" isn't straight but I DON'T CURR. I'll fix that some other time, it isn't bothering me. This bass is one step above plywood and has an ugly pickup rout, a transplanted Jaguar bridge whose position I just eyeballed because the screw holes don't line up, higher action than most people are accustomed to and a brand nobody knows anything about...but it's the first instrument I owned personally and I love it to death! I know I perform DIY surgery, but I'd be crushed if anything bad happened to it!
(and it is perfectly tuned despite the slightly off bridge)

Also,


ILF, I do love you!



Hey cobascis, is the thing beneath your cab something other than a piece of furniture? I ask because those things either look like overturned legs or corner protectors...

I'm into it,...but that swimming pool the MM pup is in is ghastly.

[cobascis]

that's two pages of great stuff. i love people who mod fearlessly with hand tools

Hey cobascis, is the thing beneath your cab something other than a piece of furniture? I ask because those things either look like overturned legs or corner protectors...

Haha, it is actually an unloaded speaker cab I made. Need to get a 12" in there soon/

[Achtane]

I'm into it,...but that swimming pool the MM pup is in is ghastly.

Yeah I need a way to cover it up a little. I think one of the DeArmond things might fit but dunno for sure: http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/bpickup_rings.htm
Even if it leaves a smaller gap that's still a little better looking. I'll have to email them about it.

Haha, it is actually an unloaded speaker cab I made. Need to get a 12" in there soon/

Cool, I like the looks

[Sol Lucet]

[warwick.hoy]

I'm into it,...but that swimming pool the MM pup is in is ghastly.

Yeah I need a way to cover it up a little. I think one of the DeArmond things might fit but dunno for sure: http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/bpickup_rings.htm
Even if it leaves a smaller gap that's still a little better looking. I'll have to email them about it.

Not very forthcoming with specs are they. If push comes to shove you could probably make one form an old Stingray OG (I think Mud suggested that).

[Bassus Sanguinis]

That looks, to me too, a badass tool for rock ' n roll I think It's hard to go wrong with that pup configuration.

[Toonster]

That P/MM pickup configuration seems great.. I have a '78 precision with a hole in the bridge position with a really boring sounding old pickup, I think it will fit a MM-pickup.. So that might be worth trying for me as well

[theactionindex]

Mah babies.

[theavondon]

Mah babies.

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G&L

[theactionindex]

G&L

Nothing else feels right after playing G&L. Seriously.

[theavondon]

G&L

Nothing else feels right after playing G&L. Seriously.

Agreed. Except maybe a Gibson. It's a different kind of right.

[theactionindex]

G&L

Nothing else feels right after playing G&L. Seriously.

Agreed. Except maybe a Gibson. It's a different kind of right.

.

Definitely. Either way it's always a dilemma trying to decide which sexy bitch to bust out for band practice/recording.

[Holy Schnikes]

Mah babies.

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What kind of LP is that? My buddy just got a Traditional Pro in the Goldtop with dark satin back and coil tapped 57 Classics, man that thing is sick. The coil tap opens a whole new realm of possibilities with the LP!

[theactionindex]

Mah babies.

gitters.jpg

What kind of LP is that? My buddy just got a Traditional Pro in the Goldtop with dark satin back and coil tapped 57 Classics, man that thing is sick. The coil tap opens a whole new realm of possibilities with the LP!

That's sick! Mine's just a 2001 LP Standard with the stock pickups (498T/490R). I absolutely love it. My only complaint is that it's heavy as fuuuuuuuuck.