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I'm going to modify an Ibanez Mezzo 4 string (PJ as standard) to turn it into a sort of medium scale Stingray.

There will be lots of routing and a new scratchplate to cover the existing holes. The pickup will be installed in the sweet spot, properly adjusted for the medium scale.

 

I'm planning an Aguilar OBP-2 preamp but I'm looking at a variety of pickups.

Seymour Duncan have a couple of options as do Aguilar, Nordstrand, Barts, EMG etc

 

I've had the EMG ones before and they are not Stingray sounding enough for me for this project.

 

Has anyone tried the others? Going for a full Aguilar set seems to make sense but if some of the other options are closer to a ray tone then I'll have a look.

 

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I have used Warman MM pups in a couple of basses and they offer a wide tonal palette. Alnico magnets so offer something warmer but if wired in series offer huge gain. For ceramic magnets I like the Roswell MFR-4(??). If you check my SpectorRay Bitsa 32ins build it's listed there. 

 

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On 06/04/2021 at 12:22, fretmeister said:

I'm going to modify an Ibanez Mezzo 4 string (PJ as standard) to turn it into a sort of medium scale Stingray.

There will be lots of routing and a new scratchplate to cover the existing holes. The pickup will be installed in the sweet spot, properly adjusted for the medium scale.

 

I'm planning an Aguilar OBP-2 preamp but I'm looking at a variety of pickups.

Seymour Duncan have a couple of options as do Aguilar, Nordstrand, Barts, EMG etc

 

I've had the EMG ones before and they are not Stingray sounding enough for me for this project.

 

Has anyone tried the others? Going for a full Aguilar set seems to make sense but if some of the other options are closer to a ray tone then I'll have a look.

 

ta

I have been half considering doing the same thing, if I went ahead I would probably go with Seymour Duncan as I remember seeing one that looked quite mid focused. The other thing I was half considering was adding a 2nd bridge pickup and wiring it in series with the existing bridge pickup

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