This idea has been bouncing round my head for years now, and in honor of celebrating my 35th Birthday this year, I decided it was well past due for this thought to take form. We are down to the last month or 2 of it's construction.
Specs:
It will receive a Greenburst finish
Completely hollow bodied bass, no center block: mahogany core with 2 flame maple plates. Pearliod body binding. Bridge bass and tailpiece.
34 scale neck, 7 piece neck. Scroll headstock, hipshot ultralite turners. Birdseye maple neck, ebony finger board, pearliod blocks and neck binding. 1.75 at the nut and 19mm at the bridge.
Electronics: the bass will sport these pickups: Big BladeMan 5
Through this preamp:
*The JC-3b preamp is specifically configured to work with the Dual Big BladeMan pickups in a manner that brings out the edgy penetrating mids and high end character so widely recognized as essential to Justin’s iconic tone. We use a 500k volume pot and the common side of the blend pot is left ungrounded. Also, we have trim pots mounted for each pickups that allow one to balance (turn down) the series output to the parallel output. With all of these tweaks, the JC 3 band preamp, when combined with the Dual Big BladeMan pickups provides a rarefied degree of versatility, delivering everything from the mid forward grindy presence of classic JC tone to a super fat, wide, and deep modern sound with loads of punch.
And now the sonogram pics!
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Specs:
It will receive a Greenburst finish
Completely hollow bodied bass, no center block: mahogany core with 2 flame maple plates. Pearliod body binding. Bridge bass and tailpiece.
34 scale neck, 7 piece neck. Scroll headstock, hipshot ultralite turners. Birdseye maple neck, ebony finger board, pearliod blocks and neck binding. 1.75 at the nut and 19mm at the bridge.
Electronics: the bass will sport these pickups: Big BladeMan 5
Through this preamp:
*The JC-3b preamp is specifically configured to work with the Dual Big BladeMan pickups in a manner that brings out the edgy penetrating mids and high end character so widely recognized as essential to Justin’s iconic tone. We use a 500k volume pot and the common side of the blend pot is left ungrounded. Also, we have trim pots mounted for each pickups that allow one to balance (turn down) the series output to the parallel output. With all of these tweaks, the JC 3 band preamp, when combined with the Dual Big BladeMan pickups provides a rarefied degree of versatility, delivering everything from the mid forward grindy presence of classic JC tone to a super fat, wide, and deep modern sound with loads of punch.
And now the sonogram pics!
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