Show us your 3 pickup basses!

[mastaihei]

Wow! I see you dig the multi-pick-up configuration. Which is your favourite and why?

Thank you for your comment.

Basically I put the pickups on the virtual flets to simulate various famous basses,just for fun.

The maple neck and SB body is the best.
It simulates warwick corvette and musicman stingray.Pre EB stingray 2band EQ is mounted.The pickups are MMCx2,and 9s .The position of 9s is brighter(49F) than that of '70s JB(47F).
Varitone rotary switch and hicut switch are added.Artec paraEQ(q fixed) is added after EQ.All pickups (total5coils) can be switched to series wiring.Hi power,faster response.

Thank you for reading.

 

[ScarfFace]

So, I'm building a three pickup bass, if you are interested, I have a thread going in the Luthiers Corner titled, Justin's Jazzmaster Jubilee. Its a dumb name because it is look less and less like a Jazzmaster everyday

 

[NG51]

Here's my three pickup bass- it is an Ed Reynolds custom. It is my main 5 string, and has it all-active/passive, preamp cut and boost switches, and a great Bart pickup set. Kind of my 'poor man's Lakland"!

 

[bholder]

I would, but it only has one pickup in it now. Piezo by the end of the month, Novak BiSonic / Dark Stars when I get 'em.

 

[Doctor J]

This is a parts bass I put together a few years ago but could never get the sounds I wanted out of it. One piece ash body, maple Mightymite neck. I've had DiMarrzios in there and some other Js with a variety of pres but nothing really worked for me. The pickup spacing is slightly wider than 70's Fender, so I struck upon the idea of sticking a P in the middle. I measured up and it was good to go. I was kind of thinking of refinishing after the butchery but I'm warming to the battered orange funk. All the pickups are EMGs and the pre is an EMG BTS unit. Controls are Vol-Blend-Bass-Treble - the neck J and P are going into a three way mini-toggle, just visible below the vol pot, and the output of that goes into the blend pot, so I can have all three pickups on independently or multiple combinations of all. This thing really plays very nicely, a lot better than the sum of the parts. Me like.

 

[BlueTalon]

Cool! I'm not a big fan of orange, but that bass with the black pickups and hardware looks sharp.

 

[georgiagoodie]

Spear Flex-tool
The MM bridge pup is stock (and sounds GREAT!). The P & J are Aguilar Hots. 'Changed out the tuners & bridge. Very light.
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Another work in progress:

 

[Bassamatic]

This is my Hagstrom FrankenBass. I modded it back in the 60's when everyone wanted that "heavy" sound. The sound of this bass gets constant comments. You don't need much of the neck pickup dialed in to get a huge bottom.

The stock pup moved to the center sounds very much like a P when used alone- really sweet. I have thought about replacing the bridge pup with a MM type.

These Haggies are short scale with the world's greatest slim, fast neck. Still perfect after all this time and a lot of careless abuse over the years.

 

[Waltsdog]

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• Waltsdog
• Feb 26, 2015

Dingwall ABZ XXX

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

This is my fretted Zon TJ5:
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Unfortunately there's something off with the wiring of the pickups; the tone changes dramatically when the balance knob isn't centered, and when not centered it sounds a bit "off." The original preamp was switched out for a Pope pre that wasn't designEd for three pickups. There's no pickup selector switch either-tried to get a wiring schematic and a suggestion for a pickup selector switch from Zon, but they're not great at responding via email.

 

[Doner Designs]

I'm sorry to say we have to build those squeaky 6 string thingys once in awhile, so our 2015 project is a USMC telecaster snakehead guitar (but it does have three pickups). We will be posting progress on facebook, the gear page and talk guitar. Here's one photoshop mock up. Bass players will be glad to hear we are using Nordstrand pickups and Audere electronics. Audere is building us a custom buffered phantom coil circuit. There is also an extra multipin jack which will take feeds from each individual pickup for multitrack recording or use with multiple amps. I may do that to one of my basses.

 

[joel406]

First "real" bass I ever owned. The grabber 3

 

[Doner Designs]

I'm in the design stage of building myself a 3 pickup 4 coil Warmoth J bass. Planning for a Nordy Bigman at the bridge with Big Singles (or splits) in the middle and far-neck positions. Will share pictures when there is something to show. Right now I'm in the stage of selling a couple of other basses for funding and waiting for Warmoth to do the custom body. It will have an Audere preamp but I have not decided whether to go with a Pro-Z or one of the new hum cancel setups (which uses a phantom coil in the control cavity).

 

[Doner Designs]

This one has been posted here a few times before. Did some further mods today. Replaced the Wilkinson tuners with Hipshots, installed a Tonestyler and swapped out the military switch for a second jack. The Tonestyler has an odd size/shape shaft. Only one out of 50 knobs I had laying around would fit....but a Fender J knob is a good fit.

With 4 pickups and 4 bands of active EQ a Tonestyler is hardly needed but I wanted to try one out. It's not meant to work with active systems and that is apparent. It had be hooked up after the Audere which is not what they recommend, so I really can't be critical about the effect being almost inaudible. Also with aged flatwound strings rolloff of the highs tends to be subtle anyway. Leaving it in for now.

 

[Immigrant]

Love those kill switches.

 

[Doner Designs]

Love those kill switches.

With more than 4 pickups I think it's the most intuitive way to do pickup switching. Planning to do my quad big single build that way too.

 

[Immigrant]

I hope all the likes I'm throwing around here don't become an irritant. this just became my favorite thread despite the lack of fivers.

The photos (and story) of Jim Lovell with the AC bass are nothing short of touching.

 

[Doner Designs]

I hope all the likes I'm throwing around here don't become an irritant. this just became my favorite thread despite the lack of fivers.

The photos (and story) of Jim Lovell with the AC bass are nothing short of touching.

Thanks Immigrant, very nice of you to say! Likes will never be an irritant for me!

Not sure what part of the Lovell story you were referring to. I still get chills when I watch the clip from the movie where he tells of how his shorted out cockpit lights allowed him to see the ship in the dark and land safely.

 

[Immigrant]

Thanks Immigrant, very nice of you to say! Likes will never be an irritant for me!

Not sure what part of the Lovell story you were referring to. I still get chills when I watch the clip from the movie where he tells of how his shorted out cockpit lights allowed him to see the ship in the dark and land safely.

It's cool that the bass and accessories were donated to a good cause. And I'm gaga for anything NASA related.