thunder bird pickups. help!

[bassninja7]

so theres NOTHING wrong with my passive tbird pickups...oh wait! yes there is, their passive!

is there any pickup out there that will fit my bird, i would like to have an active bass, but i dont want to give up my baby.

as far as 3q bands go.....hmmmm

would i be able to keep the two vol pots and drill two holes for the mids and highs (use the old tone for the bass) or just drill one and have a mid-high stacked.

or better yet (assuming all this would be possible...) would i be better off gettting a 2band and stacking the bass and highs on the tone pot?

thanks to any and all feedback man.

[SGD Lutherie]

Keep the passive pickups and install a stacked 2 band preamp.

Simple as pie.

[Ric5]

my fenderbird



It has a t-bird bridge pickup, it has a Dean Edge hammer single coil neck pickup. It also has an audede 4 band preamp.

It is a looker and a player.

[bassninja7]

dude! that looks sweet!!

"fenderbird"- haha awesome man.

[phatbass]

I'm in planning mode for a Warmoth parts bass and was dead set on a slab Tele Bass style body until I saw that. Now I'm thinkin'...

I've always loved the look of Entwistle's Fenderbirds, and seeing that one in a natural finish has got me thinling.

Is that Warmoth parts?

[Showdown]

Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie

Keep the passive pickups and install a stacked 2 band preamp.

Simple as pie.

Exactly. I have a bunch of active basses, but only one has active pickups (Peavey G). Most active basses have passive pickups and are active because of the preamp.

There are a number of preamps that he could use without modifying the bass. For example, the Audere Z3 is very customizable. The Bartolini 3.4 is a three band pre for basses with two pickups and 3 knobs. It is configured like this:

2 Pickup - 3 knob configuration

Controls:
- Volume/Volume Stack
- Mid (push-pull freq selector)
- Treble/Bass stack

Either of those would work well on a Tbird with the stock pickups.

Personally I would leave it passive so it sounds like a Tbird. I have two of them and wouldn't dream of changing them.