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#48,081
IvanBassist said:
...a Super P with a reversed neck pickup and an FDV at the bridge should get you pretty close, i guess :)
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Close, but no cigar.

I'm finding less and less use for the bridge pickup on any of my basses (which is why I'm selling my MusicMan) - so my next bass is going to have a true neck pickup, with another pickup in P-Bass territory.

The SBL video was percolating in my brain, and it all came to a boil a couple weeks ago when I was amp shopping. The store had a pointy Charvel bass with an EMG reverse P+J setup (like a Spector NS-2). I plugged it in with low expectations (blame the pointy-ness) but I was floored by how FANTASTIC that reversed P pickup sounded to me.

I have a bass with EMG PJ pickups, and I think it would have benefitted from reversing the P...as Sklar says; reversed-P tightens the EA side and mellows the DG side.

The bass I'm planning at the moment will use EMG's TBP pickups, which are a reverse P in a Thunderbird shell. I like the uncluttered and rounded shape, and the side-benefit is that routing the pickup cavities will be simplified.
 
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#48,082
IvanBassist said:
Aren’t FDV pickups actually reversed P magnets? I think i remember reading that somewhere.

If that is the case, a Super P with a reversed neck pickup and an FDV at the bridge should get you pretty close, i guess :)
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I think all the Dingwall pickups are reverse P? (Except for the P pickup of course)
 
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#48,084
groovaholic said:
I saw a ‘Scott’s Bass Lessons’ video recently about Lee Sklar’s Frankenstein bass - the P bass with two reversed-P pickups.

Lee made a fairly well-substantiated guess that his bass is the most recorded bass in popular music, since he used it on over 2500 albums.

That level of success and ubiquity made me wonder why no one (other than a small-run of Gibsons in the 90s) has brought a Sklar-style bass to market.

Personally, I’ve been gravitating toward fatter tones lately and the one tone that my Z3 doesn’t have is that big, open “pickup right at the end of the fretboard” tone.

Seems like the existing Dingwall-Sklar relationship could make a signature double-reverse Super P happen pretty easily…and it’d be a killer!
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Oooh, and they could do it in one of these very early model styles:

Early_Dingwall 4s.jpg
 
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#48,085
groovaholic said:
Close, but no cigar.

I'm finding less and less use for the bridge pickup on any of my basses (which is why I'm selling my MusicMan) - so my next bass is going to have a true neck pickup, with another pickup in P-Bass territory.

The SBL video was percolating in my brain, and it all came to a boil a couple weeks ago when I was amp shopping. The store had a pointy Charvel bass with an EMG reverse P+J setup (like a Spector NS-2). I plugged it in with low expectations (blame the pointy-ness) but I was floored by how FANTASTIC that reversed P pickup sounded to me.

I have a bass with EMG PJ pickups, and I think it would have benefitted from reversing the P...as Sklar says; reversed-P tightens the EA side and mellows the DG side.

The bass I'm planning at the moment will use EMG's TBP pickups, which are a reverse P in a Thunderbird shell. I like the uncluttered and rounded shape, and the side-benefit is that routing the pickup cavities will be simplified.
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The all 3 on setting is pretty big and round
 
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#48,086
anton72 said:
Thanks brother. Unfortunately 24th Feb I woke up in evil empire. I was not prepared to this nightmare to be honest. Hanging on here, hoping for the war to stop and praying for peace…
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Thoughts are out to you and yours Anton. It must be unnerving and beyond comprehension for most of us. I’m trying to keep on topic but I am very happy to see you here today. Stay well and safe.
 
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#48,091
spiritbass said:
Cool basses - what are we looking at here?
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I don't have any year or specific information other than they were very early ones. I don't know if they were a few individual pieces, but notice how it is a light fan and it is all at the nut.

Saskatoon bassist Earl Pereira, formerly of the band Wide Mouth Mason, has or had one.

Yes, I just checked and here's a video on it:
 
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#48,096
Nuage420 said:
View attachment 4641083
What guage is that?
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.170 Dingwall Nickel

DingwallDingus said:
Do you guys who tune that low use a pick, your fingers or both? Lowest I've tuned was GCGCF and that was pushing it with fingers in the clarity department. I mostly tune standard now, maybe drop D or half step down. The occasional drop A also.
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I've mainly played Dingwalls in A standard.

I haven't gotten my bass set up for this bridge cable yet, but I'm mainly a fingers player.

I'm going to have to use a pick more for the project that lead to this string purchase.
 
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#48,097
DingwallDingus said:
Do you guys who tune that low use a pick, your fingers or both? Lowest I've tuned was GCGCF and that was pushing it with fingers in the clarity department. I mostly tune standard now, maybe drop D or half step down. The occasional drop A also.
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I've only just begun my DW journey. I'm in CGCF with the stock strings and I used 60-120 and went to ADGC. Both were fine for fingers, strings felt flexible but taunt. Pick I was able to play lighter and faster. I use compression and A HPF always on so the note clarity that might have been lacking I haven't noticed.
 
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#48,098
DingwallDingus said:
Do you guys who tune that low use a pick, your fingers or both? Lowest I've tuned was GCGCF and that was pushing it with fingers in the clarity department. I mostly tune standard now, maybe drop D or half step down. The occasional drop A also.
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Has to be with a pick. I’m a fingerstyle player and drop G on my NG3 was a bit underwhelming clarity-wise with the way I play.

Trivium’s bass player tunes his 5-string Warwick $$ (now he uses some Kiesel) to drop G# at the lowest and he must be using a ton of treble-biased EQing to get that crispy tone while playing fingerstyle live and in studio.
 
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