Personally I like the Carvin take on the MM.....good all around sound, a little flat, but chunky with punch. But that's to my ear. Went well with the P pickup in my bass
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OLP Stinkray Replacement P'up?
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5 string version the size varies a lot ... I never play a 4 so I don't think about those
right, you're talking about the different varieties: with/without ears etc. When you see a 4-string with ears type (standard) they're all the same size.
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Carvin makes the stingray style pickup wide and normal, and a few other manufacturers do the same and Seymour Duncan makes it without the "ears" ... so for 5 string basses there are at least 5 or 6 different "footprints" ... I sometimes use a 4 string stingray pickup for a 5 string bass with a narrow string spacing.
Is that bass yours????
I'm not a fan of stickers but... I *love* the way that bass looks!
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This is my bass ... I am a huge fan of SG basses so I build parts basses with SG bodies ...Is that bass yours????
I'm not a fan of stickers but... I *love* the way that bass looks!
This is a cheap plywood body with a cheap eden neck and various parts
1st version
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3rd version before stickers
My OLP came with a Seymour Duncan Basslines pick up. After some experimenting, I wired it parallel, directly to the output. It's been one of my main basses for the last 5 years (and the cheapest). It doesn't sound like a Stingray but it sounds warm and punchy. I love it.
That is soooo cool!
I love the various incarnations of that bass. Nothing wrong in principle with a plywood body: one of my favourite basses is a Korean Squier Jazz with a plywood body but the sweetest neck and with the right electronics in, it feels and sounds great.
But that SG-style bass is something else. Wow
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That is soooo cool!
I love the various incarnations of that bass. Nothing wrong in principle with a plywood body: one of my favourite basses is a Korean Squier Jazz with a plywood body but the sweetest neck and with the right electronics in, it feels and sounds great.
But that SG-style bass is something else. Wow
then you will like these ... BTW ... these are currently my 2 favorite basses to play
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The top one is real bass porn... Really cool and unique basses
They are both a joy to play ...
The top one is wired like a Rickenbacker and has 2 Rickenbacker pickups and it had a Rick like tone.
the bottom one sounds a little better
Both are cheap basses with cosmetic flaws and both are parts basses made with a mixture of cheap parts and quality parts ... and both taken apart and rebuilt several times until I "got it right" Both are 34" scale. I will be building a short scale SG 5er when I get the time.
The bottom will get a new pickguard soon
A friend has an OLP like yours. I built him a MM original type two band preamp. I wired the pickup in parallel, and it spec'd right to match the preamp.
It turned that bass into a monster. The pickup sounds great through that preamp.
I used Bahaman's design and built it on veroboard. It cost me less than $10 to build. There are pre-made ones out there for around $100.
I have a cheap knockoff 5 string set up like a Stingray. I used an Artec MM pickup. It was $14 new. Same impedance as a MM pickup.
Initially I had a three band EQ with sweepable mids. It worked great and the pickup had tremendous range and versatility.
Then I built the 2 band proper MM preamp. Despite being simpler than the preamp I had used, it sounds perfect with the MM type preamp.
I'd recommend keeping the pickup and just adding a preamp.
It turned that bass into a monster. The pickup sounds great through that preamp.
I used Bahaman's design and built it on veroboard. It cost me less than $10 to build. There are pre-made ones out there for around $100.
I have a cheap knockoff 5 string set up like a Stingray. I used an Artec MM pickup. It was $14 new. Same impedance as a MM pickup.
Initially I had a three band EQ with sweepable mids. It worked great and the pickup had tremendous range and versatility.
Then I built the 2 band proper MM preamp. Despite being simpler than the preamp I had used, it sounds perfect with the MM type preamp.
I'd recommend keeping the pickup and just adding a preamp.
Good story bro! Seriously, good story, thanks for telling it. I got a very friendly offer here on a 2-band pre which I'm going to wire the existing p'up into. I'm not into the dark arts of musical electronics, so I'm moving in simple steps, hoping this doesn't have to be very dramatic!
Thanks everybody for looking in and throwing down, it's been very helpful- and thanks for the pickup and pre- offers. I'll post when I get it into its next life here...