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#200,102
GBassNorth said:
The probuckers are fantastic pups, plenty of grit and grind, a tad brighter than modern Gibson Tbirds but still plenty of bottom end.
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I really really love the Probuckers! So much so I put one in my 2021 Nonreverse.
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#200,106
WillyW said:
Crap! I forgot to order a set of Pyramids!

AND I always forget to wipe down the strings before I install them, Pyramids have some kind of toxic black coating on them and I get so excited to install them I end up with black stains on my booger hooks...


What's the consensus on the probucker 760 pickups? that's what the embassy comes with...
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I love them in the VPs. Wish Gibson used them instead of the black PU things. My only complaint is they can lack some bottom and bigness of the originals, but they sound pretty close considering you aren't spending $400 on PUs alone. But strings and a little EQing and it's all there. The one Embassy I played was darker than the VP next to it. Dead strings maybe, I don't know.
 
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#200,107
Chucky Stiletti said:
approx same cutoff freq…..what’s the advantage?..
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Good question, that’s what I’m trying to find out. I suspect it won’t change the amount of bottom end available but it might trim a bit more off the top. In essence giving me fuller travel of the tone knob before I hit overly bright output.

note: original post corrected, I’m currently using 1meg pots and .047caps, they sound very good but when fully open offer more top end than I find useful. I might try 500K pots with .022caps or .047caps to see which I like best. I know of one other person currently using 250K pots and .022 caps on his humbucker concentric vol/tone stacks but he has alumatone pups which are a totally different beast.
 
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#200,109
icefly said:
Wednesday news .
I've been discussing for a while with a luthier (he lives in the middle of the Amazon rainforest) the assembly of a bass, replicating Precision 1951 model; today I chose tone of the color I want :cool:

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A sample from paint store, I approved today
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That car HAS to be from Cuba, it looks like it's got parts from all the big three.
 
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GBassNorth said:
Good question, that’s what I’m trying to find out. I suspect it won’t change the amount of bottom end available but it might trim a bit more off the top. In essence giving me fuller travel of the tone knob before I hit overly bright output.

note: original post corrected, I’m currently using 1meg pots and .047caps, they sound very good but when fully open offer more top end than I find useful. I might try 500K pots with .022caps or .047caps to see which I like best. I know of one other person currently using 250K pots and .022 caps on his humbucker concentric vol/tone stacks but he has alumatone pups which are a totally different beast.
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Caps are essentially out of the circuit when the tone control is wide open, a tone control with a bigger cap will just cut more treble when turned down. I changed from a stock 0.022 cap to 0.047 then to 0.10 on my Jazz so I could get a more bassy tone out of it with round wounds. I've known people who have taken the whole tone circuit right out of a bass looking for more treble but fail to see how anyone could hear the difference. My Jazz for example is still just as trebly as always when wide open, just is much deeper sounding with the tone off, also the tone bump with tone closed (whatever you call it) goes lower I believe with a bigger cap. A bigger cap just makes the tone control 'faster', IMHO, if I'm wrong somebody please beat me about the head and shoulders. :laugh:
 
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icefly said:
Wednesday news .
I've been discussing for a while with a luthier (he lives in the middle of the Amazon rainforest) the assembly of a bass, replicating Precision 1951 model; today I chose tone of the color I want :cool:

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A sample from paint store, I approved today
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Wise choice.
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#200,120
OkayistBassist said:
I wanted WorldsOkayistBassist, which is my handle elsewhere. This had to do here due to character limit! Oh well, still happy.
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I ain't no bassist. I'm a bass player. A bassist knows what's up and how to read music and all that pointy headed stuff and all.

This is serious stuff. As is everything in here.
 
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