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Godin Shifter 4 Bass - triple pickup fun! - *SOLD*
£450
Edinburgh


funkle
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Hi all

 

So how often do you see a triple pickup bass for sale?

 

Up for sale is my Godin Shifter 4 bass, made in Canada, and quite different to the PJ pickup Classic series which came after. I bought it for making it into a project bass but don't have the time. 

 

Here are some reviews of it: 

 

https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/godin-shifter-4-501652

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwTRXBh6Si4

 

This bass has vol/tone knobs and a 5 way pick up selector, and is wired so the switch does:

 

Neck pickup only

Neck + Middle pickups

Middle pickup only

Middle + Bridge pickups

Bridge pickup only

 

The original sixth option of push-pull on the tone knob to isolate the next pick up has been removed, but this current set up seems to work well. 

 

Peering into the cavity, it has been copper shielded and someone has installed a Freeway 12-way switch in there (https://www.freewayswitch.com/products/), though flicking it over to the second bank doesn't seem to result in all the options one might expect. However the first bank of options seems to work normally, as documented above.  

 

It's a fun bass with a lot of tonal options, the neck is really comfortable and fast (Jazz width nut, 1.5") and the neck has been smoothed/lightly sanded in the past. 

 

Another set of white pick ups and scratch plate included along with the black set it is equipped with. The white pickups appear to be humbuckers as opposed to single coils. But it definitely has single coils equipped currently; this is how these basses originally shipped.

 

I make the weight to be 9.75 lbs. Canadian Laurentian basswood body, rock maple neck and maple fingerboard. Finish has some wear and swirling and scratches on the back on it, but it looks good overall. 

 

£450 shipped in the UK, happy to give quotes for shipping elsewhere too.  

 

Pete

 

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Lovely looking bass you have there @funkle

 

I recently bought a Godin Shifter Classic 5 string bass and I am absolutely amazed at how good it is - build quality, finish, sound and playability. 

 

If yours is anything like that - and I know it will be - then someone's going to get a bargain here! 

 

GLWTS 😊

 

 

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For anyone wondering about the quality of Godin- I bought a used Godin Freeway 16 years ago, and it has been my only gigging bass for most of those years, and has just become so again. 

 

If the neck profile is the same (and it sounds like it could be),  then it will feel absolutely lovely! Any time I pick up another bass, I wish it was my Godin. 

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No problem. It looks like it’s the 10-way 5B5-01 switch wired up for 2 pots. It looks like it’s the first schematic of the 3 shown in the link below. 
 

https://sef545d194250e953.jimcontent.com/download/version/1532631306/module/8112261315/name/5B5-01 3PU 2Pot Part1.pdf

 

I didn’t clock it until I cracked the insides open. It looks wired ok but it doesn’t sound like the second bank is working as it ought. But the first bank for the standard switching is absolutely fine. Hence I suspect it was undetected. 
 

I hope that helps. 

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6 hours ago, funkle said:

No problem. It looks like it’s the 10-way 5B5-01 switch wired up for 2 pots. It looks like it’s the first schematic of the 3 shown in the link below. 
 

https://sef545d194250e953.jimcontent.com/download/version/1532631306/module/8112261315/name/5B5-01 3PU 2Pot Part1.pdf

 

I didn’t clock it until I cracked the insides open. It looks wired ok but it doesn’t sound like the second bank is working as it ought. But the first bank for the standard switching is absolutely fine. Hence I suspect it was undetected. 
 

I hope that helps. 

 

 

It does, thanks.

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