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The Official MTD USA Thread

#11,721
DrGroovenstein said:
I don't dig the parallel wiring sounds at all, but the single coil sounds great.
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I luvs me some parallel :) It does tend to work better when one pickup or the other is favored a little rather than equally blended, though, to my ear. So lush and full for chordal playing, really articulate stuff, etc. And the ballsiest slap tone ever! Obviously very StingRayesque. This video doesn't do that aspect of them much justice - need to hear it through an amp and cabs and it's like the most satisfying, harmonically richest thing ever.
 
#11,724
MMiller28 said:
Am I missing a written indicator or am I supposed to tell the difference between series and parallel? I've never had a bass that could switch between the two. Never done a pickup change either.
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No series, and no written indicator - I'm very familiar with the sonic fingerprint of each, supposed I assumed it might be more obvious than jt was. Each example uses parallel first then single. I wired a volume control with DPDT switch to switch both back and forth (foregoing individual control of each).
 
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#11,727
Great video! Wonder if it sound close to the super5 pickups
Combinator said:
I asked for this myself a couple pages ago and there were no examples given/available, so here you go - first super quick, direct test right after installing Bartolini Classic Bass dual coils in my 535. Same riffs played with parallel wiring and with single coil config, but with the neck pickup flipped upside down to make the two humcanceling coils both bridge-facing. This is the M55CBC model. I'm using the stock Bart buffer that's a normal part of the MTD circuit on these basses as well.

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KUETSUM said:
Great video! Wonder if it sound close to the super5 pickups
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I'm curious about that myself. Most footage of Super users I can find is oriented pretty differently, tone wise. Lots of mids, treble turned down, mellow strings, fingers only etc.
 
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The Bass Hang thing from last night was messed up live but he did post it on his YouTube channel.

Michael shared this photo of the first bass he ever made. He messed up the P pickup, so the A and D strings were twice as loud as the E and G. Bill Bartolini helped him fix the winding without having to alter the bass and that started their relationship. It also started with a 2" Koa top, but the guy Michael had plane the piece fed it through against the grain and ruined it. They had to work it down to 3/4" to get to a usable point. Oh, and an Alembic bridge but he made the tailpiece.

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#11,732
Joelc73 said:
I have been out of the MTD game for awhile now. Did the upper horn change? I was looking at some basses on basssandiego this morning and they all seemed longer and closer the neck than I remember. Just curious.
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I don't think so, at least as far as I can tell. I've owned four 535's and one 635 over the years. Looking at pics of them, the horn profile is the same.

Along those lines though, does anyone know if the newer custom MTD bridge is a direct retrofit for the previous Hipshot B style bridge?
 
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red_rhino said:
I don't think so, at least as far as I can tell. I've owned four 535's and one 635 over the years. Looking at pics of them, the horn profile is the same.

Along those lines though, does anyone know if the newer custom MTD bridge is a direct retrofit for the previous Hipshot B style bridge?
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That's a good question. I've got one of the new ones and one of the standard A style (not B), but one's a 5 and one's a 6 so I can't directly compare.
 
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Joelc73 said:
I have been out of the MTD game for awhile now. Did the upper horn change? I was looking at some basses on basssandiego this morning and they all seemed longer and closer the neck than I remember. Just curious.
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From what I saw all of the MTDs on that site are 24 fret models so that might influence the look somewhat. But MTDs have never had totally uniform shapes. The handmade aspect of the basses ensures that no two are exactly alike in terms of shaping.
 

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