Recent content by Zazie Moondust

I quite like a J bridge pickup pushed back into more of a Stingray or Rickenbacker position. But arguably you are better off with some sort of dual coil in that sweet spot position, so you can series/parallel/spit for more options.

As far as I denos go, I find this one kind of helpful, comparing the Wilde PJ set to Geezer Butler, Area and EMG active PJ sets to have some other popular models as references: It's not nessecarily the most wow one in terms of playing or tones but of gives you a bass point of comparison.

So the PW's were a success, but sometimes I want brighter strings and I'm 5/6 string curious but don't care about low B, so a D standard-ized version would be interesting. I like my DR High Beams and those and their Low Riders seem to have single "C" strings in 25 and 35 so I got a few questions...

Seems like it could be great for looking up specs for other pickups too. Does it work for Dual Coil pickups or sidewinders?

Series/Parallel sounds like it's worth trying, although I'll have to swap out the preamp anyway to do wiring mods since everything but the blend is connected to the preamp circuitboard

For the P46 and J45 users that pair them as preamps, what preamps do you use with them? I put my recently acquired PJ set in a Jackenbacker, and it does boost clarity and presence a bit, but it's still surprisingly mid focused, I guess from the stock pre itself

I voted different but to be fair I only have 3 basses with one being a fretless and the other 2 being in different tunings. If I had a lot of basses I might start using the same ones for multiple basses.

I think it'd be interesting they made a splittable pickup that goes from DC to J, but maybe that's not a feasible thing.

Finally gave 44-106 Pressurewounds a try and in D Standard. Tension feels right and and they have enough definition to sound good at low frequencies. We'll see how they age, but so far they seem to be great mid focused-strings. They don't really handle the occasional dip into drop C well...

Honestly what I find most helpful for this is it really helps me in figuring out how I want to rewire some of my basses. The wiring scheme presented is pretty cool and I can even add switch capacitors or resistors to emulate cable loading or lower value pots even in active mode. Weirdly my...

The P pickup it Jackson CBXNT Deluxe is next the the neck, but it's a 24 feet neck. It sounds good, P like but more low mids and bass.

Very interesting, looks like it's way thicker and hotter than most Jazz pickups, I guess kind of like the Jazz Bass version of a hot rails maybe. The Triad always seemed like and interesting bass, but I prefer an active buffer and it seems like it would make a big difference. I wonder if one...

I mean I'd argue there is more to how pickups effect the sound than a a low pass resonant filter type effect anyway. This is all very helpful information, but it doesn't nessecarily cover.everything. Comb filtering in traditional dual coil humbuckers being one of the less controversial ones...

It depends on the number of strings and tuning. 4 strings E Standard 21 is ideal, 20 is doable. If I am doing D standard though at least 22 frets doesn't hurt for transposition for standard tuned songs. For a 5 or 6 string might as well go 24 frets and get some more range out of it.

Very interesting information, especially with all the dimensions explored. My main bass has a model J and a preamp and definitely is kind of interesting to note that the pickups and a pre-amp pair well, though I am surprised it has such a high Q though. Mine has a 250k volume and blend though...