EMG Club! - Page 4

**ExaltBass** · #61 03-27-2007, 04:11 PM

My '69 P-J Frankenbass with active pups - Vol + Vol (no tone). Best sound I have EVER heard! (click to supersize)

northwalianbass · #62 03-28-2007, 02:58 PM

I suppose i will steal #10 with this:
EMG J set on fretted and EMG MMTW on fretless. Man that neck purrs.

JackANSI · #63 03-28-2007, 03:03 PM

What a sick, sick bass, northwalianbass... That rocks!

northwalianbass · #64 03-28-2007, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by JackANSI

What a sick, sick bass, northwalianbass... That rocks!

cheers man

You want to hear the low B on the fretless. Positively emits growl and groundmoving bass.

Plus the high C on the fretted just sings out its harmonics when the bridge pickup is rolled on full.

Its tuned BEAD and ADGC btw

MohawkHarry · #65 04-12-2007, 12:03 AM

Being a Spector bass owner has spoiled me! Today I bought a Fender GL Jazz bass got her home fired up the rig and guess what! The stock pickups in Geddy Lee jazzers suck-ass.
My last jazz was a 98 deluxe with the suhr pre and pickups that was a rocking setup not as nice as the EMG's in my NS-4 though.
Even my Euro rebop bolt-on has more growl! I'm thinking about installing a EMG system in my GL to make it compatable with my ears.

Kitsapbass · #66 04-12-2007, 05:40 AM

I put in the JV setup in my Jazz bass...give that a try!

danomite64 · #67 04-12-2007, 01:31 PM

It's got the BTS system in it, too.

Yell03SpecV · #68 04-12-2007, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by MohawkHarry

The stock pickups in Geddy Lee jazzers suck-ass.

I juiced mine up by using a DB924.

MohawkHarry · #69 04-12-2007, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Yell03SpecV

I juiced mine up by using a DB924.

Does it help to hush grounding hum from the old style pickups though? My EMG's are dead quite and the GL stock pickups give me hum when I touch the bridge or if a finger hits a pickup pole.

Yell03SpecV · #70 04-13-2007, 07:34 AM

I don't find that the GL pups are too noisy, especially played through my GK. Sure, they hum a little bit, but that's a single coil for ya.

Honestly, I guess if I had a second jazz, maybe a MIM, I would try some EMGs in there, but I really like the sound of a single coil jazz.

Thumpin_P · #71 04-17-2007, 07:47 AM

I have EMG's in my Kramer-era spector fretless and I wouldn't change a thing. I tried the factory pu's and a set of DiMarzio p&J's with coil taps, series, parallel, in/out of phase, nothing worked for a live setup. I popped the EMG's in and, 11 years later, I am still happy with the sound. I had a question for JackAnsi. I own a BBN5 and I am curious if any mods to the p/u cavities are necessary when installing the J-set. I might need to do some routing if I will go through with the full electronics package I am thinking about(BQS + 18v).

Thanks,

Thumpin_P

JackANSI · #72 04-17-2007, 08:12 AM

I didn't need to do anything but "shim" the neck (SJ) pickup towards the B string to pick it up better. But if get your hands on just two LJ (bridge) you don't have to touch a thing.

As far as electronics, I originally used the bass/treb (can't remember what the three letters are) EQ from EMG. I had to add one extra hole for the treb pot thats it, the rest fit. If I would have went for the stacked one I wouldn't have needed to change a thing. Heck if I were to do that one all over again I would have went stacked bass/treb, blend, vol instead of vol, vol, bass, treb.

For 18v I use 6 CR2450 lithium coin cells (largest 3v coin cell made I think). Expensive yes (12$ for 6), but so far around 300 hours and the pack still tests around 18.5v. if you stack them 2 columns of 3 cells its about 7/8 the size of a single 9v. I had to wrap each stack of 3 in shrink wrap and then bridged one side of each and brought the other out in a 9v battery connector and shrink wrapped the whole deal again. Viola, 18v, stock compartment, no routing. BTW each CR2450 has more mAh than an alkaline 9v, 600(9v) vs 660(CR2450) I believe.

The only routing I did to my BBN was to add the EMG40 series.

Eddie95Z28 · #73 04-18-2007, 01:35 PM

I just ordered an EMG setup for my Bass 40DC,40DS, and BTS System. And, my guitar has a EMG81 and EMG85 in it. Can I join the club?

Giel · #74 04-18-2007, 01:49 PM

- two of the 45 TW soapbars (45CS and 45J in one pickup)
- emg BQC control

very tight sound.

Thumpin_P · #75 04-18-2007, 09:01 PM

Thanks JackAnsi, Those are some intersting ideas on the batteries, I would have never thought of using coin cells. I had thought about using the 3-band system, but I think the 2-band might be sufficient. I will also just buy 2 LJ models, that was the question I had in my mind. Thanks again for your time.

Sincerely,

Thumpin_P

Mark Gollihur · #76 06-29-2007, 07:57 AM

My main axe, a PBC (Bunker) 356GTB, was originally built (so they said) for Allen Woody, who - when he came to pick it up - decided he wanted one of their new "Wishbone" basses instead. It came stock with EMGs, to which I added the BTC Circuit, Vol/Blend (instead of Vol/Vol) controls, and a second battery for 18v. The thing sounds AMAZING.

Other basses I've owned (but since passed on to new owners) included a Samick 5-string & Epiphone Rock Bass (my first bass) - both of which I upgraded to EMGs, and neither of which I should have sold. I also have a pair of MM-style EMGs ready for a project 5-string MM-style bass, and I just got a PJ set for an Epiphone bass I recently bought on a whim to "replace" my first bass I mentioned above (and shouldn't have sold).

And do I get extra credit for this? http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mgollihur/emgmod.html

alexofc69 · #77 06-29-2007, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by northwalianbass

I suppose i will steal #10 with this:
EMG J set on fretted and EMG MMTW on fretless. Man that neck purrs.

OMG!!! It looks like a sea monster!!

BillyB_from_LZ · #78 06-29-2007, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by sixandeightstringer

...
And do I get extra credit for this? http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mgollihur/emgmod.html

Sure!

I run the EMG Js (with BTS and EXB) at 18 volts on my Hoyt/Warmoth J5 "mongrel" (as Karl calls it) and it works great!

Kazuo · #79 06-30-2007, 09:41 AM

May I join?

My current bass (an ESP) runs a set of EMG 40-HZ pickups (which I plan to swap out probably for DCs) and the B64 EQ/pre and might mod the controls. I'm planning on acquiring a second bass in the next couple of months (the one I had before was a Peavey with stock pups

) which might get stock swapped for EMGs or Seymour Duncans (Sorry.

).

My guitar runs an EMG 81 in the bridge position and a 60 in the neck.

Ian Perge · #80 07-01-2007, 06:16 AM

I'll be joining this club in the near future. My plans for my special-ordered Spector ReBop DLX 5 is to replace the HZ/TonePump setup with 40J/40TW pups and two concentric pots for a Volume/Tone-Volume/Tone (I much prefer individual volumes than a blend setup), a BTC Control, and a push/pull to trigger the coil-cut on the 40TW. Although I'd be missing a mids controls, this seems to give me the best control for a Jazz-esque setup with the J-pups in the 40/J and the coil-cut of the 40/TW while keeping the stock layout. I'm always up for ideas, so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.

I'll also be honest and say I've always been a fan of the traditional "Spector Sound" for other players but not as my sound. However, the combination of buying a Spector and expecting that tone to a certain degree (but one that's a bolt-on and uses different woods than the old-school all-maple build) as well as EMG's addition of the 40P5, J, TW, and CS with all use ceramic and steel magnets which give a more traditional sound and cut the high-end have me hoping that this'll be more "me" than the Spector/EMG combo of years past.