PJ with Musicman bridge pickup

[SteveXFR]

Hi. I had a play of what may be the perfect bass (for me) and wondering where I could get one.
It was precision style body with precision neck pickup and a musicman stingray style bridge pickup and a jazz style neck.
It was a custom build but does anyone make something like this?

 

[Riff Ranger]

Hi. I had a play of what may be the perfect bass (for me) and wondering where I could get one.
It was precision style body with precision neck pickup and a musicman stingray style bridge pickup and a jazz style neck.
It was a custom build but does anyone make something like this?

I will never understand why this isn’t a common configuration in production instruments. I would prefer a Precision neck personally, but it seems like a lot of us want that pickup configuration.

 

[Riff Ranger]

Hi. I had a play of what may be the perfect bass (for me) and wondering where I could get one.
It was precision style body with precision neck pickup and a musicman stingray style bridge pickup and a jazz style neck.
It was a custom build but does anyone make something like this?

What instrument did you play, anyway? I know they’re out there.

 

[SteveXFR]

What instrument did you play, anyway? I know they’re out there.

It was a custom build with a Retrovibe body and a Fender Jazz neck and some fairly hot pickups.

 

[OllyW]

Sandberg have the California VM4.

 

[Killing Floor]

^^^Was just typing Sandberg.

For what it's worth the old MusicMan Sabre basses play/feel very much like a Precision, similar neck, the double bucker is punchy but I know it's not exactly what you want.

Pretty sure Maruszczyk will do the P/bucker option.

 

[bassclef112]

I had mine built with Warmoth. Duncan custom shop MM (this was the first MM pickup outside of Music Man), Lindy Fralin P, and an all ebony Jazz neck. With an 18v OBP-3 it is my #1.

 

[MonetBass]

This one is for sale in the Classifieds right now (not mine):

For Sale/Trade - MINT Maruszczyk 5 Delano pups matte finish precision style 2019

 

[Liko]

Hi. I had a play of what may be the perfect bass (for me) and wondering where I could get one.
It was precision style body with precision neck pickup and a musicman stingray style bridge pickup and a jazz style neck.
It was a custom build but does anyone make something like this?

This thread may be of use, someone had the same question specifically about procuring a 5-string P/MM: Buy vs mod vs build a 5 string P/MM?

One of the big caveats is that the "sweet spots", where a pickup gets its best/signature tone from the strings, overlap between P and MM. The workarounds are to move one or the other pickup out of its sweet spot, prioritizing tone of the one you're not moving, or to reverse the stagger of the P pickup so the treble side of the pickup is further up the neck, which comes closest to ideal, but many custom builders can't or won't rout for a "reverse P". For this reason and a few others, J/MM is a little more common.

 

[Scott Shaw]

A humbucker would take care of the buzz, but it would still be nice to have a coil tap option.

 

[haggardPHUNK]

This is the thread for you: Fender American Deluxe Precision

I’m going to look at one in a few minutes

 

[johnson79]

Schecter Diamond P had a P and double jazz setup. Not sure what it sounds like though.
Vault : Diamond-P Custom

 

[beatdatthang]

I had mine built with Warmoth. Duncan custom shop MM (this was the first MM pickup outside of Music Man), Lindy Fralin P, and an all ebony Jazz neck. With an 18v OBP-3 it is my #1.
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This is the best way to get one IMO. Just have Warmoth make a body with P and MM routes. You can pretty much then put any neck on it you want.

I have a Warmoth dinky P With just the P pickup currently installed and I plan to do just that. I want to route for the MM just behind the P. I have an MM pickup already, I just need to get competent and brave enough to do the routing myself. I have a router and template, I just want more practice because I don’t want mess it up. That’s a gorgeous bass, BTW.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

Hi. I had a play of what may be the perfect bass (for me) and wondering where I could get one.
It was precision style body with precision neck pickup and a musicman stingray style bridge pickup and a jazz style neck.
It was a custom build but does anyone make something like this?

I Think the Talman 300 is the one with a double single in the bridge (humbucker). But, Im gonna build me one. Except on a telecaster.

 

[Riff Ranger]

This thread may be of use, someone had the same question specifically about procuring a 5-string P/MM: Buy vs mod vs build a 5 string P/MM?

One of the big caveats is that the "sweet spots", where a pickup gets its best/signature tone from the strings, overlap between P and MM. The workarounds are to move one or the other pickup out of its sweet spot, prioritizing tone of the one you're not moving, or to reverse the stagger of the P pickup so the treble side of the pickup is further up the neck, which comes closest to ideal, but many custom builders can't or won't rout for a "reverse P". For this reason and a few others, J/MM is a little more common.

At least one other Talkbass user has confirmed my suspicion that you get best results by putting the MM in its sweet spot while reversing the P and moving it toward to neck just enough to accommodate the MM. There seems to be a bit more wiggle room in the position of the P/reverse-P than with the MM, assuming you want the MM to sound like the single pickup in a Stingray-style instrument. I had a Westone Spectrum GT that had (essentially) a P pickup just a bit closer to the neck then standard, which still sounded just like a (super hot) P to my ears, and the MM pickup noticeably closer to the bridge, which I didn't particularly like when used with the P and didn't like AT ALL soloed—it certainly didn't sound like a Stingray. It seems like lots of '80s P/J instruments had the P/reverse-P positioned any number of places, but the J was always right down by the bridge.

 

[ItsmeSantiago]

Cort GB74 Gig | GB Series Electric Bass

Here's a less expensive model. Not exactly a true MM style but it's interesting.

 

[Quatschmacher]

Hi. I had a play of what may be the perfect bass (for me) and wondering where I could get one.
It was precision style body with precision neck pickup and a musicman stingray style bridge pickup and a jazz style neck.
It was a custom build but does anyone make something like this?

Sandberg VM4/VM5.

 

[Verne Andru]

I did some experimenting with the SS Stingray and SS Jaguar - the MM does fit with a P, but it's snug.

 

[RayWithFlats]

Thomann do the Harley Benton Enhanced MP-5...

Harley Benton Enhanced MP-5MN Natural – Thomann UK

5 string only though, the equivalent 4 string is MM/J, not MM/P. Good luck with the search!

edit - there is a 4 string MM/P after all, didn’t find it on my first search

Harley Benton Enhanced MP-4MN Natural – Thomann Ireland

Couple of TB threads here...

Harley Benton Enhanced MP-4MN Vs Enhanced MJ-4MN vs BZ4000

Harley Benton Enhanced Series

Not as nice as that Sandberg, though. Mmmm.

 

[anton72]

Hi. I had a play of what may be the perfect bass (for me) and wondering where I could get one.
It was precision style body with precision neck pickup and a musicman stingray style bridge pickup and a jazz style neck.
It was a custom build but does anyone make something like this?

Sandberg California VM4 or VM5. Exactly your spec's.