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CHARVEL Bass owners, part 2

#23
Buddhaful said:
After a bunch of research it sounds like the biggest criticism is the pickups, so I'm thinking the active EMG's (same as I have in my Ibanez) will make it stand out!
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I have fretless 2B and fretted 3B. Front P pickup was fine but I found hum noise on rear position (J-style single coil) diminishing so much clarity of the sound. I mean, I love these reversed PJ layout, it has a lot of potential and versatility but some sort of noise reduction was must for me. EMGs work, did that to my 2B, I also I swapped rear J on 3B with Duncan Hot Jazz Stack (or whatever it is called). 3Bs have active electronics so it might be a little different, but I'm thinking that works fine too on passive 2B.

Kind of off-topic, but I believe Sadowsky PJs use J pickups with side-by-side style coils inside of em too. Anyone has experience with these?

Buddhaful said:
Some on the Charvel/Jackson forum even seem to the think the 2B has some better build quality than the neck-thru 3B....thoughts?
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My 2B and 3B are both equally fine instrument. 3B just has smaller bodyshape and thus a little less weight.
 
#24
yoko5000 said:
I have fretless 2B and fretted 3B. Front P pickup was fine but I found hum noise on rear position (J-style single coil) diminishing so much clarity of the sound. I mean, I love these reversed PJ layout, it has a lot of potential and versatility but some sort of noise reduction was must for me. EMGs work, did that to my 2B, I also I swapped rear J on 3B with Duncan Hot Jazz Stack (or whatever it is called). 3Bs have active electronics so it might be a little different, but I'm thinking that works fine too on passive 2B.

Kind of off-topic, but I believe Sadowsky PJs use J pickups with side-by-side style coils inside of em too. Anyone has experience with these?



My 2B and 3B are both equally fine instrument. 3B just has smaller bodyshape and thus a little less weight.
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I had a cheap Ibenez that had a crummy j pickup in it that hummed bad, took it out, tossed a JBE dualcoil in and no more buzz.
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if you notice, it also has a jackson bridge and under the knobs is a jackson preamp :)
 
#28
hey gang, to further bump the thread let me show you my charvel parts mutt I just put together to make sure it played correctly. It will be repainted and stuff, so here is the before shot before I take it all apart for shipping to the luthier.

it has a 84 usa charvel body, a 89 model 575 MIJ neck from my bass covered in tiger fur,
and all the electronics are off of the same 575bass. The kahler, although I wished it was black was a spare.
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i didnt pull the gibson-switch out of the 575 yet to toss in the explorer yet.
 
#30
no, that was a p-p blue body.
I didn't need the cost when I have so many spare parts. So like yours it will be a mutt.

I did the customary video with it before I took it apart to make sure everything works and it does, and when my guy is ready next week, I'll mail everything to him.
If you wanna watch the video for a laugh since I'm flipping it over, let me know. It sounds like everything else over here so I didn't have a WOW shock.
 
#32
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I acquired a Charvel bass the other day that a guy defretted. I don't know if the defret job was done right, and it needs a better input jack and pots. It has a bolt on neck and its one of those tri color yellow, red, blue lava basses. Everything on it seems to be original.

I was thinking I would get a new neck and gut the electronics to make it a project bass; however, I feel that messing with such a cool bass further might be sinful. So if any Charvel fans here are interested I'm offering to sell it for what I paid $130 USD + whatever it costs to ship it to you.
 
#35
"let there be 2" I thought I would never find another tricolor--well I was wrong.
I bought the body from a fellow TB member FUNKYMITCH and since my spare pointyneck was for a model1-2 body and won't fit, so for now I tossed my DuckBill neck on it to put it together.

so here is my model3+4 tricolors.
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. Since I don't need my white model4 anymore I'll swap necks and sell the thing with the duckbill.
 
#39
the wood is probably poplar like everything else from the day, the bridge is a kahler 2410. I have a black 2410 that will go in when finished, the pickups and pots are from that black CSM. The neck is from a 89 model 575. The thing is nice but I'm a lefty so it is only for the collection. I can play it flipped for home-useage, but wouldn't do that on the stage. IF I hold it righty it is pretty balanced since the body is heavy especially with the kahler in it.

I did make a youtube vid with it flipped over just to test out the tone if you wanna hear what it sounds like out of my PA in my basement.

http://youtu.be/8WGXGSwhpO4
 
#40
Finally got around to taking a pic of my Charvels. These are all 2B basses. The black one has EMG Active X pickups with an EMG BTC System, sounds awesome. The white one has the stock Jackson pickups, soon to be swapped out for the EMG setup. The red one has DiMarzio P/J pups and sounds really good.

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--jack
 
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