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Show us your Double P Basses!
- Thread starter Doner Designs
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How did you get the pickups in the larger housing? Is that something that Dimarzio offers or did you do some kind of customization?
A friend did the "extensions" to the pickups.
The main reason for the larger covers was that it looked a bit like Neil Murray's modded Tele/P in the late seventies.
A Fernandes Bomber BO-60. No complaints here, and surprisingly very old-school tone-wise.
I see. I figured if I were so inclined, it would be easier to rout that shape than split coils, given my essentially non-existent routing skills.A friend did the "extensions" to the pickups.
The main reason for the larger covers was that it looked a bit like Neil Murray's modded Tele/P in the late seventies.
I’ll throw my Fernandes into the ring as well.
- Jun 2, 2012
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Love those! Neck-through, right? The neck pickup is also a bit closer to the neck than the regular P sweet spot, right?
Thanks,
The D,G split of the mid pick up is in the standard position.
The gap between the pick ups, is where the E,A side would normally be.
The idea was to get a nice beefy sound, without the thin nasally high-end bridge tones.
Great idea! It's basically like Lee Sklar's bass except the bridge (or mid) pickup is one coil's distance closer to the neck.
Got any soundclips?
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Ooh, I love this configuration! I'd like a 3-way switch to select between pairs of coils.
The center 2 coils look really close to the Music Man Stingray pickup location...
I like it better if the neck pickup isn't in the regular P position (but closer to the neck), sounds better when both pickups are on.
I love the sound of Double P, so i have seven of them.
Six Vantage VP710B's (one converted to Reverse Double P seen in the second picture) and a chinese
Mockingbird copy.
Six Vantage VP710B's (one converted to Reverse Double P seen in the second picture) and a chinese
Mockingbird copy.
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I played around with different pickup locations on my test bass before i put this one together and clustering them in that spot was definitely the best area to my ears. The middle of the cluster is very close to a stingray. I did play around with pickup switching for a bit but in the end all on at full was the sound I like. I do have a volume for each set and a phase reverse on one of them, oh and a tone control that I really dont use
