Are the individual coils wound the same as a single coil Jazz Bass pickup, or are they wound to a different spec?
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Fender Roscoe Beck Pickups Question
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That's right, pot values interact with properties of the pickup as a whole not with coil configuration alone. Consider the mudbucker I mentioned earlier, it's single coil and uses 500k control pots.
Bill Lawrence designed the pups for the Roscoe Beck 5 string. On his site in his notes he mentions Roscoe wanted the the halves of the humbuckers that would be in the J bass positions to duplicate his old J bass exactly. Bill thought that bass was a little weak but did it anyway. Hence the RBV does sound very close to a J in the single coil mode. Adding both humbucking modes it's a very versatile bass.
Rosco had, in the past, lots of details on the design of this bass on his site. That stuff is probably still there even though the 5 string was discontinued by Fender in 2006.
None of this information is relative to the 4 string version as I know nothing about those.
Rosco had, in the past, lots of details on the design of this bass on his site. That stuff is probably still there even though the 5 string was discontinued by Fender in 2006.
None of this information is relative to the 4 string version as I know nothing about those.
There are no detailed specs on the Roscoe Beck site, that I've found anyway.
I have two sets of the Fender Vintage jazz pickups. I'm thinking of making my own Roscoe Beck style pickups from them.
I have two sets of the Fender Vintage jazz pickups. I'm thinking of making my own Roscoe Beck style pickups from them.
I see roscobeck.com has been archived by The Wayback Machine. Perhaps one could find out more details which might have been removed.
Do the newer 4 String Roscoe Beck basses also use the same technology, or are the 5 string pickups superior?
Zombie thread revival!
anyone have any informed thoughts about replacement pickups for the RB basses ? I know that Bill Lawrence is no longer with us, and neither Bill Lawrence or Fender sells replacements for the RB basses.
Has anyone found a pickup that might be close enough/similar to the Bill L RB pickups ?
anyone have any informed thoughts about replacement pickups for the RB basses ? I know that Bill Lawrence is no longer with us, and neither Bill Lawrence or Fender sells replacements for the RB basses.
Has anyone found a pickup that might be close enough/similar to the Bill L RB pickups ?
cool, thanks for your suggestion. Can you elaborate a bit on why you think these might be similar to the Bill Lawrence pups in the Roscoe Beck basses ?
Checking out the Bigrig 4's on the Nordstrand site, seems as if they were modeled after '51 P's. I think the RB pups were modeled after Roscoe's original '70s jazz pups ... but built into the unusual humbucking arrangement.
I suppose another way to chase this is to talk to the various makers and see if they have any thoughts about this.
