Does this bass style sound ok?

Candiria, I'm not an expert on the tone of different woods, but, from what I've learned here at TB, and at www.warmoth.com walnut and mahogany are both on the dark sounding side. Is this the sound you're looking for? You really can't tell the sound of any bass until all the components are together, but, this talk about a wood's tone is the starting point.

BTW, when you wrote: Walnut body
mahogany core, did you mean that it's a mahogany body with a walnut top?

Mike J.

 

can u put that combination of pups?

Not sure but i think I read here somewhere that they would overlap.

 

You either get an accurate P tone, or an accurate MM tone. You can't have both. However, the sound of those two pups is pretty killer.

I don't know about woods, but the pickup combination sounds pretty good to me.

 

If you move the MM slightly towards the bridge, you're fine.

 

Was meaning to ask this when i read about the pickup placement in the other thread .
What determins the proper place to position a pickup? And is "Proper" different for different Pickups or for different sound?

 

That’s what I'd like to know. The impression I get is that the "Proper" position for each pup would physically overlap, i.e. one would have to sit on top of the other slightly. But from this thread it seems that you could just move the MM towards the bridge.

 

It seems to me that it would sound really dark and bassy with the P and MIM pups. Then you have 2 bassy woods too. I imagin it going "FUMP!".
I've been trying to make sound effects for bass on like every thread today .

 

Would you consider other pickup configurations? If you would really like to have the P-pup, maybe a J-pup would be a nice idea at the bridge. Bart makes some fine sounding soapbars too.

The other thing is that MM pickups seem to sound best around a certain spot on the body. Moving it too far towards the bridge might dilute the tone such that it could sound quite thin.

The wood selection sounds fine if that's what you would like.

 

what about two bart quad coils near the bridge?



then you'd be able to get kind of an MM tone, a P tone, a J tone, PJ, dual soapbars....



jason

 

MM not MIM

MM= Music Man.

MIM= Made In Mexico

Everybody knows that! Well Ok I didn’t, until I looked it up a couple of weeks ago hehe.

 

Sounds heavey to me, cause I know from testing out basses with different bodys that mahogony is extremely heavey wood.

 

MM pickups aren't dark and bassy. The Stingray is one of the brightest popular basses that there is.

 

stingrays sound the way they do not just because of the pickup, but the preamp as well. ive run bart mm pickups passive and they're nowhere near as bright as a musicman. no sizzle.

 

The mahogany basses I've played were all light as feathers.

 

I meant to add. If you definitely want the P-pup, they go well with J-pups at the bridge. If you are more attached to the MM pup, a J-pup at the neck is a popular configuration as well.

The P-pup with the MM though, it's a relative unknown as to how it will turn out. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall coming across that sort of setup before. Has anyone else ever played a bass with this configuration? how did it sound?

 

Perfectly OK.
Pretty nice, even. Will look awesome! And, properly manufactured, sound great, too.
You will, as pointed out, have to consider placing the pups in different places from the P or MM originals, but that's fine. Just make up your mind if you want to push the MM back or the P up or both a little apart.
And consider coil splitting the MM!

(Though I would rather use two HBs, both splittable - but that's me)