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JJ & PJ in one bass
- Thread starter JoeJack1
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Always remember google searches repeat what has been said before by others. This includes falsehoods, popular rumors, fake news, misconceptions
and opinions, however subjective and biased. Sometimes it contradicts itself in the same paragraph.
I ran into this very problem last night, we discovered lice in my 6 year old's hair that morning and kept them home from school. The school gave us some lice treatment spray, when I got home I looked at the box and noticed that it was a homeopathic formula (i.e. not real medicine)
My wife did a Google voice search and it spat out a response that boiled down to "yes it's effective if you follow these directions" but I was skeptical, so ran the search myself. The response she got was just the AI summary and the sources that claim cited included the product's own website, Amazon and Target reviews, and reddit.
So I dug a little deeper and found an actual clinical study which showed that no, in fact, it doesn't do anything, because it's just salt water.
It's a real shame how unreliable internet searches have become.
The luck of the draw. If those two sources had said differently, I would have continued trying to sort it out further in effort to clarify as well as relay my experience with two PJ Precisions, and series parallel wiring sound characteristics in general. Whether a Precision pickup is normally wired in series or parallel, I got that detail wrong, whereas otherwise regarding the nature of what series and parallel is, and what character is imparted to the sound from those distinct electrical characteristics, I got right.
Again, sorry I got that Precision pickup detail wrong.
Why not both in one package? Putting aside the "series/parallel switching" stuff, there are ways to have one bass that's capable of both. Not at the same time, mind you, but with a little elbow grease, one could rig up a J/J that could be turned to a P/J and back again at will. I did this mod to a Jazz bass years ago.
If I ever wanted to bring it back home, all I would need is to swap out the neck pickup and guard. Plus, if I did this frequently, it wouldn't take much to put together some kind of solderless, quick-connect between the pickup and pots. That, or simply use a solderless wiring harness. Just unhook the strings, remove the guard and pickup, drop in the new pup, make the connections, pop the guard on, retune the strings and set the pickup height.
The Projekt Blue P/J pictured above now carries a DiMarzio Sixties P/J set and an Audere preamp. So far, I'm really diggin' the sound I'm getting out of it...thumpy and bold, but with plenty of clarity. To be fair, though, I've never ran them passively, but from many accounts, the preamp is very transparent, so I think it's fair to assume the flat EQ sounds really close to home. One thing for sure, if I were running them passively, I would definitely have a series/parallel switch as a part of the electronics suite.
Given the Sixties are designed to work well together, either P/J or J/J, I doubt I'd run into any trouble switching up. (I've had issues with mismatched P/J pickups for years. Fortunately, these play nicely with each other.) Even the recommended pots are the same value, so that would eliminate one step in the transition.
I don't want to use 2 picgards and switch from.Why not both in one package? Putting aside the "series/parallel switching" stuff, there are ways to have one bass that's capable of both. Not at the same time, mind you, but with a little elbow grease, one could rig up a J/J that could be turned to a P/J and back again at will. I did this mod to a Jazz bass years ago.
If I ever wanted to bring it back home, all I would need is to swap out the neck pickup and guard. Plus, if I did this frequently, it wouldn't take much to put together some kind of solderless, quick-connect between the pickup and pots. That, or simply use a solderless wiring harness. Just unhook the strings, remove the guard and pickup, drop in the new pup, make the connections, pop the guard on, retune the strings and set the pickup height.
The Projekt Blue P/J pictured above now carries a DiMarzio Sixties P/J set and an Audere preamp. So far, I'm really diggin' the sound I'm getting out of it...thumpy and bold, but with plenty of clarity. To be fair, though, I've never ran them passively, but from many accounts, the preamp is very transparent, so I think it's fair to assume the flat EQ sounds really close to home. One thing for sure, if I were running them passively, I would definitely have a series/parallel switch as a part of the electronics suite.
Given the Sixties are designed to work well together, either P/J or J/J, I doubt I'd run into any trouble switching up. (I've had issues with mismatched P/J pickups for years. Fortunately, these play nicely with each other.) Even the recommended pots are the same value, so that would eliminate one step in the transition.
Since the P pickup can't produce a decent J sound, I'll go with JJ.
At the same time, I will study the issue of big singles that are installed in Ibanez.
Why not both in one package? Putting aside the "series/parallel switching" stuff, there are ways to have one bass that's capable of both. Not at the same time, mind you, but with a little elbow grease, one could rig up a J/J that could be turned to a P/J and back again at will. I did this mod to a Jazz bass years ago.
If I ever wanted to bring it back home, all I would need is to swap out the neck pickup and guard. Plus, if I did this frequently, it wouldn't take much to put together some kind of solderless, quick-connect between the pickup and pots. That, or simply use a solderless wiring harness. Just unhook the strings, remove the guard and pickup, drop in the new pup, make the connections, pop the guard on, retune the strings and set the pickup height.
The Projekt Blue P/J pictured above now carries a DiMarzio Sixties P/J set and an Audere preamp. So far, I'm really diggin' the sound I'm getting out of it...thumpy and bold, but with plenty of clarity. To be fair, though, I've never ran them passively, but from many accounts, the preamp is very transparent, so I think it's fair to assume the flat EQ sounds really close to home. One thing for sure, if I were running them passively, I would definitely have a series/parallel switch as a part of the electronics suite.
Given the Sixties are designed to work well together, either P/J or J/J, I doubt I'd run into any trouble switching up. (I've had issues with mismatched P/J pickups for years. Fortunately, these play nicely with each other.) Even the recommended pots are the same value, so that would eliminate one step in the transition.
This one still stands as my favorite of your modified basses.
JPJ? Check out the original 1990's Fender Stu Hamm bass (not the later version with JJ pickups).
