Recent content by Harvey Citron

It was great being at the show and meeting you all. I can't wait to see the photos.

I build custom wound pickups. You might try some of mine.

I find that shielding helps amazingly. I recently built two versions of a Jazz Bass that was reviewed in Bass Player magazine. Since the pickups were the first Jazz bass pickups I ever wound, I wound them traditionally, and initially didn't shield them, however I did use shielded cable, and...

Two coils connected in series will be fatter sounding, more bottom end, more push. The pickups are not wound in series or parallel, it is just how the coils are connected to each other that make them series or parallel. In a series humbucker either the two ends of the coils are connected...

Steve is currently playing a Citron AE5 Swallow. It is the fifth bass I've built for him. Each bass has been an improvement on the previous model. We started with my AE5, a 2 1/2" thick almost completely hollow Mahogany body with a Spruce top, and a laminated Mahogany/Maple/Mahogany neck with...

It's hard to hear anything at NAMM. If you're ever in upstate New York, feel free to stop by my shop to play some of my basses. ---Harvey Citron Citron-Guitars.com [email protected]