Lightweight EB/Eagle/Phoenix mashup - mystery woods

[ctmullins]

.1uf. Pretty much as David describes here: Coil Tap Question

 

[wraub]

Fwiw, with a typical P bass pickup, I am using a .022 cap, and I am completely and totally mud free.
Seriously, it's like an April shower day, lurking in a car wash, on the way to the pool kinda day over here.

Just sayin'... (caps are surprisingly amazing when it comes to tone...)

 

[Will_White]

.1uf. Pretty much as David describes here: Coil Tap Question

Ok so not to high, I use .18uf Cap for mudbucker-ish tones and a .047uf or .033uf for bassy single coil tones with an even larger cap you can get an almost sub-octave effect. (Added: With guitar humbuckers, strat sized, and mini-humbuckers, I haven't tried the dimarizo) If you replace the jumper in the diagram I posted with another cap you get a second option but no split position.

Fwiw, with a typical P bass pickup, I am using a .022 cap, and I am completely and totally mud free.
Seriously, it's like an April shower day, lurking in a car wash, on the way to the pool kinda day over here.

Just sayin'... (caps are surprisingly amazing when it comes to tone...)

Using the cap the way we are talking about is different then a standard tone cap, it retains a good amount of crisp highs still.

 

[ctmullins]

It looks great ct! Worked out really nice overall. Very vintage looking but with a nice hard edge. Every instrument is a system of parts interacting, but funny how this quote pretty much exactly sums up how I feel about DiMarzio Model Ones...

I pulled the Model Ones and replaced them with a pair of TV Jones Thunder'blades that were destined for another build. Got some Gretsch rings to hide the big holes.

Sonically much better. Aesthetically, meh. I still think I'll wind up trashing the body and making another one. It's weird to say it, but it actually feels too light.

 

[Beej]

Wow, different but this looks great too. Looks like something mid-70s Matsumoku...

 

[Freekmagnet]

Wow, this bass came out looking great - I can’t believe I missed it!

BTW, what did you finish that Granadillo fretboard with?

 

[ctmullins]

Thanks!

BTW, what did you finish that Granadillo fretboard with?

Either Tru-Oil or Formby’s, can’t remember which. Every fingerboard of mine gets one or the other.

 

[ctmullins]

A happy ending to this frustrating story!

My mom, who has both a thorough grounding in classical music and a deep love for rootsy rock ‘n roll, mentioned to me that she’d like to try out a bass guitar. She’s quite a petite lady, barely 100 pounds, and has had a few health issues that have sapped some of her muscle strength. So a few months ago I put TI flats on this bass and drove it (and an old crappy amp) over to her. The smaller scale, compact body, and extreme light weight seemed like a perfect fit.

Yesterday she calls me, all excited, with some “good news”. Turns out she’s been practicing on it regularly, and she recently found a couple of guitarists looking for a bass player. While she knows that she’s still a beginner, she mustered up the courage to call them and “audition”. The first session went four hours, and the next day she went back for three more. They like her!

So this bass now belongs to a little old lady in Louisiana, pounding out rootsy blues-rock, spreading the joy.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

So she learned the notes on the E and the A and got a gig? Seriously, good for her and you.

 

[reverendrally]

Man, that's a great story. I'm really happy you didn't trash the body now.