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New Carvin P bass, about time?

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Grateful said:
Considering a used MIA Fender P5 is ~$850-900….Bit of a no-brainer there, IMHO.
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Considering I won a football square for $1250 for the final score I may be a bit more motivated! :hyper:

Found some soundclips of a PJ on this forum. I may get that in passive & run the P most of the time

1) Anybody find any downside of having the J in a passive ?

2) Any hum with a PJ vs just the P ?

I'm swapping out some pickups for my MIM J build with an audere to be stacks instead of SC so after I see what that does to tone I'll know what I need for my P better. :bassist:
 
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Tunaman said:
Considering I won a football square for $1250 for the final score I may be a bit more motivated! :hyper:

Found some soundclips of a PJ on this forum. I may get that in passive & run the P most of the time

1) Anybody find any downside of having the J in a passive ?

2) Any hum with a PJ vs just the P ?

I'm swapping out some pickups for my MIM J build with an audere to be stacks instead of SC so after I see what that does to tone I'll know what I need for my P better. :bassist:
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The pickup just sitting there won't be doing much.

However, to my ears mixing P and J with the pots in a passive bass doesn't work as well as mixing two Js. In a passive bass the electrical properties of the two pickups influence each other, namely shifting the resonance peak upwards, when you just use passive pots. This sounds great with two J pickups, but less great when mixing a P and a J.

Obviously it will hum every time the J is on alone or mixed in. If you use a passive hum-canceling J you make the blending mess worse.

Personally I prefer PJ in an active setting. Then you get a pure audio mix when blending and none of the shifting around. Plus if you have a hum-canceling active J pickup it won't suddenly switch the hum on when using it.
 
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uOpt said:
The pickup just sitting there won't be doing much.

However, to my ears mixing P and J with the pots in a passive bass doesn't work as well as mixing two Js. In a passive bass the electrical properties of the two pickups influence each other, namely shifting the resonance peak upwards, when you just use passive pots. This sounds great with two J pickups, but less great when mixing a P and a J.

Obviously it will hum every time the J is on alone or mixed in. If you use a passive hum-canceling J you make the blending mess worse.

Personally I prefer PJ in an active setting. Then you get a pure audio mix when blending and none of the shifting around. Plus if you have a hum-canceling active J pickup it won't suddenly switch the hum on when using it.
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Thanks, I actually hear this as well, there are some clips on page 23 or something like that & the PJ setting had 2 pickups that sounded distinct & separate vs working together for lack of a better description.

I have a J thats active so I'm starting to lean back towards the passive P. Saves $ too, $925 with a matching head stock, birdseye, your favorite radius... epic
 
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Tunaman said:
2) Any hum with a PJ vs just the P ?
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I haven't run into hum on my PBJ in any config.

uOpt said:
This sounds great with two J pickups, but less great when mixing a P and a J.
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I agree with this part. Mixing the P and J doesn't provide the same result as mixing two J's. That said, I play my PBJ almost exclusively and on a 50/50 between the pickups almost 100% of the time, so it must be doing something right :)
 
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jb64 said:
Hey Guys!

Here are some sound clips of my new Carvin PB5 I recorded today.

I mainly recorded using the P pickup but first clip has both the P and J pickup up full.

The only eq is from the bass, which is noted below. I used Cakewalk Sonar X2 Producer to record the clips.

Enjoy,

Carl

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P/J pickups 100%, passive tone -10%, Bass +10%
https://soundcloud.com/jb64bass/carvin-pb5-finger-funk-both

P pickup 100%, passive tone -10%, Bass+10%
https://soundcloud.com/jb64bass/carvin-pb5-finger-funk-p

P pickup 100%, passive tone 100%, Bass +10%
https://soundcloud.com/jb64bass/carvin-pb5-pick-groove-p

P pickup 100%, passive tone 100%, Bass +10%
https://soundcloud.com/jb64bass/carvin-pb5-aj-mute-p-pickup

J pickup 100%, passive tone -20%, Bass +10%
https://soundcloud.com/jb64bass/carvin-pb5-j-pickup-groove
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The more I listen to these the more I want this bad boy. The J sounds good, the PJ isnt too bad at all & through an amp\cab you can dial in your sound too. Hmm...

One last set of questions...

1) No hum with the PJ when blend is centered
2) No hum with the P alone due to it being a split right?
 
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I haven't noticed any negative impacts from the tone knob on mine. It's one of those knobs for me that does exactly what I hope it does when I turn it. Just takes the clanky high end off some newer strings as needed.

On mine, I run both volumes full almost all the time. Treble at noon, never moves. Bass, I bump just a fuzz. Then I use the tone knob to dial in/out the amount of high end I want.

Sometimes I will roll back the J a hair for a fuller PBass sound. Some times I will roll back the P a hair for a more Jaco/focused sound. But most of the time, full volumes on both yields the tone I want.
 
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