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Should I do it?

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duckbutter

Mar 30, 2005
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#1
Okay, I have 2 projects going on...#1 is a refin that I have to wait till it gets warmer so I can stain the body outside (small place, and pregnant wife).
#2 is a SX project.
The SX project started out simple enough. I bought a schaller double j that was going into the neck position as a humbucker, and a dimarzio model j in the bridge.
Now, I have a new idea...route a spot for the schaller between the 2 j pups, and got with 2 model j’s.
500k stacked vol pot for the 2 j’s, and a 500k stacked pot for the schaller which 1 part of it will be used for the overall tone control. The schaller will be connected to an on/on/on switch (top/both/bottom).
This setup should give me full control of all the pickups since each one of them is hum-canceling.
Sounds good on paper, and it should give me some nice sounds.
Any thoughts ??:D
 
#3
ahhh...sort of like an Urge bass with a double-J instead of a P...very interesting....


I don't know...that's too many pickups for my tastes...(I'm easily confused)...

I'd go model-J neck, and double-J bridge...you first wanted to go double-J neck, model-J bridge...I see merits in both...

the third scenario...I don't know...I tend to think that with both the neck and the bridge going, that you won't get a lot of benefit from the middle, but I could be wrong.

as far as the front/both/rear setup for the double-J...I think you'll get a better tonal selection if you went series/single/parallel and just picked which coil you were going to use for the single.
 
#4
Yes, kind of like the Urge.
The cool thing about the double J is, each J is hum-canceling (8 leads). It's kind of like gluing 2 Dimarzio Model J's together, so in the end it will be sort of like having 4 pups.
I think I may just go for it.
 
#7
duckbutter said:
Yes, kind of like the Urge.
The cool thing about the double J is, each J is hum-canceling (8 leads). It's kind of like gluing 2 Dimarzio Model J's together, so in the end it will be sort of like having 4 pups.
I think I may just go for it.
Click to expand...

ahhh...I didn't realize that the double-J was completely hum-cancelling.

In which case, Go for it...I think I'd go with a series/single/parallel toggle on each pickup (2 for the double-J), and a volume control for each pickup (2 for the double-J) using 2 stacked knobs...and then an overall tone control

so it would go...
toggles:
parallel/single/series neck
parallel/single/series middle front
parallel/single/series middle rear
parallel/single/series bridge

pots:
volume neck
volume middle front
volume middle rear
volume bridge
tone

NOW I'M REALLY CONFUSED! :)
 

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