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- Thread starter gimmeagig
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Have any of you seen one in 70s spacing? I wonder how that would sound with the slanted neck pickups.
Oh I know, just wondering how JJ would sound with 70s spacing.
I ordered a DJB 5 with 70’s spacing and J pickups with slant neck Pup. It comes in sometime this year! I’ll upload a demo video when it’s finished!
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The effect is kind of a hybrid. I answered this here, not about how far away is the bridge pickup, but the relative distance and the tone that creates.
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My JB 5 is 60s. I like the 70 spacing better especially for slap,and I have several basses that get tahat Marcus sound, but whenever I bring my Moon bass I get a compliment fory incredible tone, without fail. Go figure. I wish it wasn't so but I give up.LOL
Sounds like a definite win win with the variety of basses. If you’re getting the incredible tone compliment with the 60’s spaced Moon, well, tone is king!
60’s/70’s spacing is always in reference to the bridge pickup’s distance from the bridge. So it should have no effect on neck pickup distance.
unless I’m wrong.
Personally I prefer 60s spacing. It has that Stingray 'burb' from the bridge pickups. But I love how Mitsuru Sutoh's JJ cuts through the mix effortlessly, but I feel the JJ can use more punch and brightness from a 70s bridge position.
I got this Atelier Z recently and it is 70s spacing, I like the sound of it but I keep imagining how it would sound if the neck pickup is slanted like the Moon JJ.
Yes, the neck PU was in the same placement relative to the harmonic series along the strings. Only the bridge pickup was moved.
What is cool about the Moon spacing is that you get some of the distance between pickups at the bass end that is similar to 70s, although the whole thing is set a little closer to the neck than in actual 70s spacing. Do you get a similar phase cancelling character but with a different “bite” character that you get from being so close to the bridge. I think it’s the sweet spot.
My philosophy is that the slanted neck pickup is made that way to emulate a P pickup. I am not sure if it’s in the exact same spot though?
That’s my suspicion too. Is it rotated on the center axis or only the bass side is moved up.
I had forgotten about the phase cancelling. So I guess there are two factors which control the tone in this case: both pickups’ relative location to the bridge for brightness/nasal/which harmonics they hear, and their relative location to each other for phase cancelling. So much plays into building and designing these things.
I think that’s the idea. I have a Yamaha BB2000 and 5000A and I can say with their P pickup orientations reversed, there’s a small difference in sound for E and A strings and a bigger difference with D and G strings. I like the 2000 for finger style because the tone is more even between all strings, but the 5000 slaps better in my opinion. D and G strings really pop with traditional P pickup orientation. Can’t wait to see how the Moon will complement these two.
