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Really interesting! But it sounds like there’s no way to combine the neck pickup and the p pickup.
Well that’s much more interesting for what was already a super interesting bass. I’m assuming the two and the four positions are reversed p and the rio grande and then the regular p and the rio grande.
I’m curious as to whether than rio grande will be a part of the final design. That would be the first time a reverend bass has used a non reverend pickup if I’m not mistaken
I’m curious as to whether than rio grande will be a part of the final design. That would be the first time a reverend bass has used a non reverend pickup if I’m not mistaken
bassslinger mellon,
that's on purpose: I like the punch one pickup gives me so the three-way switch gives you only one pickup for each position. I tried using stompboxes for my second opera but it was too difficult for me... I'm more into getting different sounds by using different pickups in different positions on my bass instead. of course a lot depends on where you pluck the string also (closer to bridge vs closer to nut).
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that's on purpose: I like the punch one pickup gives me so the three-way switch gives you only one pickup for each position. I tried using stompboxes for my second opera but it was too difficult for me... I'm more into getting different sounds by using different pickups in different positions on my bass instead. of course a lot depends on where you pluck the string also (closer to bridge vs closer to nut).
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bassslinger t,
w/the three-way switch in the middle, the wattplower mark II is just like the mark I, no difference. I added two more sounds I can get to quick using that switch and the extra pblade coil and the rio grande pitbull pickup.
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w/the three-way switch in the middle, the wattplower mark II is just like the mark I, no difference. I added two more sounds I can get to quick using that switch and the extra pblade coil and the rio grande pitbull pickup.
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bassslinger melon,
we tried different reverend pickups for the neck position but wasn't getting what we wanted so I remember putting rio grande pitbull pickups in the dan bass (a 1965 gibson eb-0 given to me by a kind man named dan in san diego as I walking to the boat post-gig... I had just had my eb-3 stolen along w/all the other stooges stuff in montreal in the summer of 2008 - this bass dan gave me actually had lindy fralin GUITAR pickups when I got it) and liking that sound so I tried using the new bridge version of the pitbull rio grande now makes and it was most happening for the neck position in the wattplower mark II.
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we tried different reverend pickups for the neck position but wasn't getting what we wanted so I remember putting rio grande pitbull pickups in the dan bass (a 1965 gibson eb-0 given to me by a kind man named dan in san diego as I walking to the boat post-gig... I had just had my eb-3 stolen along w/all the other stooges stuff in montreal in the summer of 2008 - this bass dan gave me actually had lindy fralin GUITAR pickups when I got it) and liking that sound so I tried using the new bridge version of the pitbull rio grande now makes and it was most happening for the neck position in the wattplower mark II.
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This is the first I've heard of your Dan Bass. I cobbled together a similar beastie from an Epiphone EB-0 neck, the body with pickups from an Epiphone SG Special I guitar and a Hipshot Supertone bass bridge. You're very right about guitar pickups working well for bass, I've used several different guitar pickups for this and other assemblages over the last dozen or so years.
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Mike, I'm lovin it as you're going through it....the only reason I bought a Fatfish was the extra sounds...believe me...as configured I'd buy this as is...it's all about killer tones
This bass would solve my main issue with the fat fish. The location of the d and g strings on the precision pickups. It can sound too stringy sometimes. This arrangement would fix that and keep the E and A where I like them.
bassslinger mong,
sorry for the confusion - the rio grande pitbull pickups I’ve used are for bass and not guitar - I pulled the guitar pickups out of the dan bass that were there when I got it and replaced them w/the pitbulls and then having to remove one cuz where they were mounted, they were out of phase w/each other!
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sorry for the confusion - the rio grande pitbull pickups I’ve used are for bass and not guitar - I pulled the guitar pickups out of the dan bass that were there when I got it and replaced them w/the pitbulls and then having to remove one cuz where they were mounted, they were out of phase w/each other!
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bassslinger mel,
you ever think about flipping the pickup, mounting in backwards so the 'd' and 'g' string coil is closer to the neck than it is to the bridge? it'd make your 'e' and 'a' strings sound a little tighter so I don't if that's what you want cuz you say you like how those two strings sound now. just thinking out loud...
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you ever think about flipping the pickup, mounting in backwards so the 'd' and 'g' string coil is closer to the neck than it is to the bridge? it'd make your 'e' and 'a' strings sound a little tighter so I don't if that's what you want cuz you say you like how those two strings sound now. just thinking out loud...
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bassslinger mong,
here's the dan bass: 1965 gibson eb-0 w/a rio grande pitbull pickup, schaller bass bridge 2000 and custom pickguard to hide the hole left by the original mudbucker
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here's the dan bass: 1965 gibson eb-0 w/a rio grande pitbull pickup, schaller bass bridge 2000 and custom pickguard to hide the hole left by the original mudbucker
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bassslinger melon,
no more prototypes, the wattplower mark II is here!
mark II has three different ways to work pickups now using three-way switch:
* leo's '57 pbass idea reversed
* leo's original '57 pbass idea (wattplower mark I setup)
* rio grande pitbull neck pickup
the pblade pickups have ceramic magnets and the pitbull has alnico.
mark II has slight body change to help work the "non-cash register" part of the neck.
on bass, watt
mike watt's hoot page
no more prototypes, the wattplower mark II is here!
mark II has three different ways to work pickups now using three-way switch:
* leo's '57 pbass idea reversed
* leo's original '57 pbass idea (wattplower mark I setup)
* rio grande pitbull neck pickup
the pblade pickups have ceramic magnets and the pitbull has alnico.
mark II has slight body change to help work the "non-cash register" part of the neck.
on bass, watt
mike watt's hoot page
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Enjoyed your show in Pacifica on Thursday Dec 12th - hope the recording session after your mini-tour went well and looking forward to the CD!
