Double Precision PUs

[CpTCrunch]

@OP
Personally I think dual P's rock. One of my old frankenbass's has run dual reversed P's off an on for ages.
I'm getting parts together for a 34 scale 5 string @ eadgc that will be running dual reversed P's. I can't wait!

@SGD Lutherie
Yea the dual reversed P has always worked better for the tone I'm looking for.
Though I didn't mind the normal dual P when using very light strings.

 

[xoloder]

BTW xoloder, how did you get a black precision pickguard to fit your squier? I once bought a black pickguard for mine, and didn't know it wouldn't fit until I tried it.

this is actually an old korean squier 2. it didn't have a pickguard as the controls were rear routed. i prefer the look with a pickuard, so i added an allparts guard. i have been successful with adding fender replacement guards to several squier bodies, but it depends on model and year. you just have to try it. usually you will have to plug and re-drill some of the mounting holes and possibly do some minor reshaping around the neck pocket. i have had 3 bodies from 1998-1999, 1 p and 2 p/js. the p and 1 of the p/js took the pickguards no problem. the other p/j had too wide of a control route for the pickguard. i had an oddball pickguard laying around that happened to work though. also, each p/j was routed for a different sized bridge pickup. 1 was standard bridge p/u width and the other was neck p/u width. for me, squiers are trial and error, but i usually find a way to make it work. (sorry for the long winded response)

 

[SGD Lutherie]

I always loved Lee's tone from this bass.
Reverse P-Pickups, in 60's Jazz position.
Fender needs to to this bass?

They are EMGs too.

They never made a Sklar signature bass, but Fender did have this for a while:

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[Frankjohnson]

You'd want a hotter P pickup toward the bridge and regular output P pickup in the standard position. Two Q/P sound like a recipe for mud.

Or like a friend of mine who has one, adjust the neck position much lower, and run with it.

 

[xaxxat]

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[xoloder]

You'd want a hotter P pickup toward the bridge and regular output P pickup in the standard position. Two Q/P sound like a recipe for mud.

my Q/Ps don't sound like mud at all. you just have to get the heights adjusted appropriately.

 

[PazzoBasso]

I dunno what this sounds like, but I just came across it today:

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"Custom ESP Signature model for Taiji from the Japanese Band Loudness"

 

[xoloder]

I dunno what this sounds like, but I just came across it today:

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"Custom ESP Signature model for Taiji from the Japanese Band Loudness"

i'll bet it sounds interesting. i would definitely give forth my best effort to rock it.

 

[Nalte]

it looks cool, like giant tires on a truck or something, but the sound never did it for me.

That is a very apt description!

 

[markanini]

Or like a friend of mine who has one, adjust the neck position much lower, and run with it.

my Q/Ps don't sound like mud at all. you just have to get the heights adjusted appropriately.

Just my humble opinion. One mans mud is another mans phat.

 

[SGD Lutherie]

I would also put the hotter pickup at the bridge. The Quarter Pounder isn't muddy, but it has a harsh sounding upper midrange IMO.

But I had two DiMarzio Model Ps on my bass and it worked fine. But they are also wound like a vintage P pickup, just with ceramic magnets and steel poles. A QP is wound hotter. The SPB-2 Hot P bass is hotter still.

 

[R. Laevinus]

I've done it once on a MIM P-bass. Had to sell that bass because of neck issues (couldn't get the action to my satisfaction), but the tone was just great. Sounded very much like you'd expect, which is to say a lot like a PJ, except that the bridge P had a fuller, thicker tone with clearer highs (i.e. less growl) than your typical J.

If I were to do it again, I'd make sure that the bridge P was reversed, in order to cut down on the twanginess of the top strings, and even out the tone.

 

[jumbodbassman]

It works really well. The two pickups balanced well and the bridge pickup is fatter and smoother than a Jazz.


If I were going to do it again I would reverse the P pickups.

+1 on the reverse of both. the bridge pickup is really close to the bridge.. Lee Sklar has one but i think EMG's...

and if you do only the bridge then they are really close. But warwick has done it with success so what do i know...

Warmoth bass below. Very hot schaller dimarzio clones (old kramer pups IIRC) . So hot i went with series/par switch. I originally had 2 62 pbass pups in it but the bridge was really thin.

 

[kevmc28]

You'd want a hotter P pickup toward the bridge and regular output P pickup in the standard position. Two Q/P sound like a recipe for mud.

You can overcome that somewhat by raising the height of the bridge pickups to be much closer to the strings than the neck set (which you could then lower as well).

 

[pbgonecrazy99]

Does reversing the bridge pickups really make that much of a difference. I want to make sure that when I do this, it is the best way to do it. What kind of tone differences does it make if the bridge pickup is regular vs reversed?

 

[SGD Lutherie]

When you reverse the pickups, you have the treble strings sound fuller and the bass strings a little tighter, so they sound more even across all the strings, IMO.

This can be particular helpful if the bridge pickup is very close to the bridge.

When I play a regular P bass I can hear the tonal change from one half of the pickup to the other. I find it's less noticeable when they are reversed.

 

[Danger McLovin]