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P-bass replacement pickup advice needed
Aussiephoenix replied to cocco's topic in Repairs and Technical
[quote name='wateroftyne' post='648894' date='Nov 8 2009, 04:28 PM']Try a Wizard Thumper. You lose a little sizzle, but gain a lot of output and pokier mids.[/quote] +1 I've become quite a fan of Wizard Pickups. got the thumper on my frankenstein, and it does deserve its name -
[quote name='arpi' post='650080' date='Nov 9 2009, 08:52 PM']Hallo, looks very nice, can you tell me the weight and the scale length of this bass and shipping costs to Germany? Cheers Arpi[/quote] Arpi, as far as I know, all Sadowskies are 34inch, I dont have a way to weigh it here, but since its not chambered, I would guess its weight at around 9-10lbs. There's a quote of 120eur estimated to Berlin, Germany (Delivery in 1 or 2 days, no insurance... stupidly, they dont do it.) Cheers. Dave. -
FEELER: Frankenstein and Upgraded basses
Aussiephoenix replied to Aussiephoenix's topic in Basses For Sale
I'd be a little biased to answer that... This bass went through a lot of mods... When I got it from Bassaussie, it was covered in black cracked paint, and it had cutouts for soapbar pickups. So I made some plugs for it and then carved the P and MM holes. At the time, I had a Precision pup rewired by a friend, and a no-name MM humbucker... first time I put it together with strings, I realised that the pups sucked, but, that aside, I liked the general effect (this without a preamp and wired direct to the jack) With the new Wizard Pickups... specially that Thumper... its a totally diferent bass... (Thanks to the BC'rs that sold me the Wizards. love'em.) Unfortunately I dont have any clips recorded... I've been meaning to do that for ages now, yet never get around to it. The pickups kinda follow the sandberg idea. the P is reversed so that the Bass side is lower than the Trebble side, which does add more sound definition. The bass was already routed for a preamp cavity, so I knew what to put in there, in went the OBP3 (Had a hard time arranging everything so it'd fit... its a small enclosure). So other than the normal OBP3 shaping options, I added a 3way coil tap on the MM pup to give me Series, Parallel and Bridge coil Soloed. With the dr Parts neck its very snappy and brings out a thunderous slap sound. I'M quite happy with it. it was my first attempt at frankensteining, so, the finish, etc isnt perfect, but its a very usable bass, and the main thing is that its actually put together very solidly, the neck pocket is a perfect fit, etc. -
FEELER: Frankenstein and Upgraded basses
Aussiephoenix replied to Aussiephoenix's topic in Basses For Sale
[quote name='spacecowboy' post='652172' date='Nov 12 2009, 12:39 AM']It certainly wouldn't have gone for £200 loaded with Nordstrand Pups and a Audere Preamp in it never mind all the other mods. As for the values i really don't know mate, probably the sum of all parts minus 25% - 30% but that Precision looks immense! must sound huge?![/quote] Yeah, I must have had my mad scientist's cap when I thought it up. Even though the OBP3 gives a lot of shaping options, this isnt a subtle instrument...it doesnt lay down the tracks, it pounds them home -
boas. Welcome
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hey guys, this is just a feeler so I get an Idea of what my frankensteins are worth. (These aren't the latest photos, but they are recent enough.) First up, the Real Frankenstein: Specs: [list] [*]Precision body (unknown source) [*]Maple Jazz Neck (Dr. Parts) [*]Wizard Thumper (Precision Pickup) [*]Wizard Magic (Musicman Humbucker) [*]Aguilar OBP3 TK [*]See-through Stingray scratchplate (Modified) [*]Neck Pickup Precision Cover. [*]Schaller 2000 fully adjustable Bridge [*]Straplocks [/list] Next Up, The Upgraded Squier: This is a Squier Jazz 5 Deluxe (a nice base actually, surprised me.) with a few mods: [list] [*]Nordstrand NJ5 Pickups [*]Audere-Z Preamp [*]Schaller 2000 fully adjustable Bridge [*]Straplocks [*]The string retainer has been swapped for a bigger retainer, covering the 5 strings [/list] Im not really looking to sell them, just curious at what people think they are worth. Thanks for your opinions.
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[quote name='arpi' post='650080' date='Nov 9 2009, 08:52 PM']Hallo, looks very nice, can you tell me the weight and the scale length of this bass and shipping costs to Germany? Cheers Arpi[/quote] Hey Arpi, I'll check it out and let you know. Cheers, Dave
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Thanks for the kind words gentlemen
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WITHDRAWN
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I ended up contacting Andy at Wizard Uk and he was a great help. seems I'd completely screwed up which wire went where. Its thumpin now.
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Guys, I've got a Wizard Thumper (P) on my Frankenstein bass going to volume 1, and a Wizard Magic (MM) pup going into a 3way coiltap switch, and from there, to Volume 2. There's a 9v Aguilar OBP3 in the mix too. I've screwed up my wiring somewhere... Now, the Precision sounds fabulous soloed, however, I'm having a few issues with the MM pup and the 3way switch. (Both pickups have red, white, black, green and bare wires) Problems: 1) in the bottom position, the 3way acts like a mute switch. (it was supposed to give me the MM in series mode) 2) in middle and top positions, (suposedly Bridge Coil on one of them and MM in Parallel mode) I hear both pickups, but as I lower the volume on one of them, the other gets MUCH louder. the overall volume is lower when both are on. The way I have it wired up is as follows: ON the P pup: White and Black are connected, Red goes to the Middle tip of vol1 Green goes to left tip of vol1 and Ground. Switch poles: 1 2 3 4 5 6 3Way switch connections on the MM Pup: Red goes to 2 Black goes to 3 (along with the wire that goes to Middle Tip Vol 2) White Connects 1 and 5 Green + Bare go to 6 (Along with the ground Wire) I guess the problem is Im not understanding how the 3way connections work... Help me figure out what Im doing wrong please...
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A jazz neck fits a precision body perfectly. the opposite should also be true.
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I've had DR Black Beauties, but at the moment, Labella SuperSteps
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[quote name='johnnylager' post='594232' date='Sep 9 2009, 07:44 PM']I settled on a [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=45784"]DHA VT2-Twin-EQ-Bass[/url] after owning BDDI, Paradriver & Microbass II and deciding they were only pretending.[/quote] Ufff... 249£ is a bit much for me I'm 'fraid. dudewheresmybass, I'm also looking for a ToneHammer to try out. I love Aguilar, so I think that would do what I want out of it.
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Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!
Aussiephoenix replied to dudewheresmybass's topic in Effects
I gotta ask... are some of these bigger boards even giggable? I mean, you have to tie them to the roof of you car to get them to the gig, and then, there's so much damn cable running though it, that you must have to bump the Vol and gain to 11. -
[quote name='dudewheresmybass' post='593985' date='Sep 9 2009, 04:18 PM']if bang for buck is the prime requirement, either the VXL mentioned above, or the Behringer BDI21 are worth looking into[/quote] Its not the prime requirement... versatility, functionalities, good clean are higher up in my requirements. as far as buck goes, I can go up to 150£ roughly...
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[quote name='Happy Jack' post='593805' date='Sep 9 2009, 01:05 PM']Assuming you will be running it though a power amp when you want to drive a bass cab, check out the PJB Bass Buddy. Really excellent, and about £200. If you can go higher, then the Eden WTX series are great heads which can also be used either as a pre-amp or as a pro-quality DI box. With the Eden WTX500 getting established now, there should be some good deals on the WTX260 available. Think £400 or less. My own WTX260 will shortly be coming free (WTX500 arrives next Tuesday) so that's an option if you're not concerned about pre-owned amps.[/quote] Hmmm, nah, the ideia is to get a compact box I can use as straight preamp/DI -> mixer or, using it as a preamp/Driver -> Eden Nemesis combo
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hey guys, I've decided to let go most of my effects, keeping only Chorus, Tuner and Multicomp on my Pedalboard. Im looking to get a [b]good[/b] [u]Preamp/DI[/u] that isnt TOOOO expensive. I've already had a MXR M80+ and an Aphex Bass Exciter. I was curious about the DHA VT1-EQ-Bass-Drive valve OD, EQ, DI, I like the idea that it is valve driven, though that isnt essential. What else is there that you've tried and loved and doesnt blow the budget too much? Cheers.
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[quote name='4000' post='582977' date='Aug 27 2009, 10:28 PM']Reminds me of the offspring of an MTD and a Ritter.[/quote] exactly what popped into my mind when I saw it.
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I've had the OLP gas way back... Resumed, I must have tried about 30 of them, and only one really stood out from the bucket... Its a matter of luck finding a really nice one.
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Thanks for your posts people. As it turns out, I got too frustrated the other night after spending about 2 hours playing around with the settings on the supercollider, and sold it. Now I have 2 options: a) Buy a new pedal without the chance of trying it out (there isnt much out here in terms of boutique , only boss & digitech type pedals) Get one of the local DIYers (theres one in particular that seems very talented) to put me together a pedal. Honestly, Im leaning towards option B. My idea so far is a 2 circuit enclosure 1 would be a fuzz with blend and the other an octave down with blend also. thing is... where can I find the diagrams for those real good Fuzzes? I was thinking "Pickle Pie B" good.
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[quote name='Musicman20' post='581659' date='Aug 26 2009, 05:34 PM']Can I ask, how good are the Fender 5's? I hear silly rumours that their B doesnt really cut it....but I also hear the new ones are REALLY good for their money.[/quote] I was a firm believer in that until I tried 2 SQUIERS (a mate's precision Deluxe and my own Jazz deluxe) which have no trouble whatsoever with the 5th string, nice and tight as you'd want it to be. If "certain" squiers can have that, why cant normal fenders?
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During the talking part in the beginning, looked like Marcus was a little bugged to be there... like "Im a big fan..." "yeah yeah whatever... " trust the music to get rollin for him to look like he's enjoying it.
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[quote name='Toasted' post='578786' date='Aug 24 2009, 09:16 AM']Overly bright, clanky and [b]unforgiving to poor technique[/b]. Playing with the band, which is what I personally play bass for - I don't think there are many better sounding instruments.[/quote] you know, I hated Sadowskies when I first tried them exactly because of that (though I either didnt realise it at the time or wouldnt accept it). they are VERY unforgiving if you're used to a Passive Jazz and play with a lot of attack. I've had to mellow and control my attack in order to adjust to my sadowsky. I wouldnt say that theres that huge a diference in playing in or out of a band setting, but comparing a passive jazz to a Sadowsky is like comparing oranges and watermellons.