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This thought has crossed my mind. However with two 1/4" TS jacks you can use any instrument cables you have sitting around instead of having to rely on on a TRS and a breakout box. But you can see one end of a dedicated loom I made for my dual-output basses, which keeps things tidy. Also, if you only plug into the neck output, you get both pickups, but plugging into the bridge output separates the pickups to their own respective jacks.
All great points. Very cool.This thought has crossed my mind. However with two 1/4" TS jacks you can use any instrument cables you have sitting around instead of having to rely on on a TRS and a breakout box. But you can see one end of a dedicated loom I made for my dual-output basses, which keeps things tidy. Also, if you only plug into the neck output, you get both pickups, but plugging into the bridge output separates the pickups to their own respective jacks.
Many years ago , I took two EBO basses and defretted one and replaced pickups with rail humbuckers and the other with two Fender Lace Jazz Pickups in the bridge position. Replaced tuners with small Gotoh Fender style tuners and dome knobs .The guy I built them for was very happy with finished product ........Hope he is still happy , considering both of those basses in original condition would sell for $2000.00 today .
A very minor "mod" for balance and easier reach. This is a total parts bass, so "mod" may not be the right term.
Hello, Clayton. My best mod was putting a J neck on my P bass. Say hello to your puppy!
Nothing I have can top my first bass. DE fretted and added the equivalent of 30 fret fretless board. Piezo under the fretboard and under the bridge. piezo buffer, filter preamp separate 2 band preamp. Years later I replaced the P with a quadcoil and added switches to utilize coil tapping + parallel series -- including routing only 2 coils to the filter preamp only. Unfortunately the neck cracked the second time and I hardly use it
I had a thumbrest on a P bass once because there wasn't enough space for my thumb on the pickup. I eventually got rid of it and that bass became pick only. That bass also has a fake knob because I wanted a side input jack rather than a front input jack and that filled the hole.
Turned this Aerodyne into a fretless. Added EMG Active pickups and knobs in attempt to match the binding.
This photo does not show the gold very well. Late model 50's P/Tele body with all gold hardware. The control plate, strings, pick guard screws and string guide are gold as well but somehow don't look like it. Infact the strings are 24 carat gold plated.
I took a chance on the $60 Chinese fretless maple/maple neck. Its amazingly straight and very playable. Except that the side dots were in the place of a fretted neck. I painted over them and added my own stick on dots.
I took a chance on the $60 Chinese fretless maple/maple neck. Its amazingly straight and very playable. Except that the side dots were in the place of a fretted neck. I painted over them and added my own stick on dots.
I admit that I'm a modding maniac and even mod my straps with sheepskin to make them more comfy. Plus the usual pickups, wiring, bridges, necks, etc, most of which can be just considered as parts replacement. One of my favorite "functional" mods is fingerboard scalloping. I love flying around the fingerboard without contacting any wood.
Here's a couple 4 strings with scalloped fingerboards:
And a scalloped Yamaha BB605 and homemade 6 string:
And here's something a little different, but sticking with the modded fingerboard theme - Yamaha fretless 4 string with stainless steel fingerboard.
Here's a couple 4 strings with scalloped fingerboards:
And a scalloped Yamaha BB605 and homemade 6 string:
And here's something a little different, but sticking with the modded fingerboard theme - Yamaha fretless 4 string with stainless steel fingerboard.
Of course! This was one of my builds a couple years ago.
I like the general Ric shape, but hated the hard edges, so I built a walnut body with a layer of white (holly) wood to simulate binding. I like Precision pickups, but I like them better "reversed", D&G half forward. I like the slim five-piece Ibanez necks. I like two simple passive, smooth controls, Bournes 500K pots. I like straplocks, but I like them better "recessed" like these. I put the jackplate over the pickguard, but the screws mount solidly into wood, as I think the jacks mounted into just the plastic (like a Pbass) is a breakage point.
So this is a conglomeration of ideas that I like, but obviously couldn't buy in any one package.
I like the general Ric shape, but hated the hard edges, so I built a walnut body with a layer of white (holly) wood to simulate binding. I like Precision pickups, but I like them better "reversed", D&G half forward. I like the slim five-piece Ibanez necks. I like two simple passive, smooth controls, Bournes 500K pots. I like straplocks, but I like them better "recessed" like these. I put the jackplate over the pickguard, but the screws mount solidly into wood, as I think the jacks mounted into just the plastic (like a Pbass) is a breakage point.
So this is a conglomeration of ideas that I like, but obviously couldn't buy in any one package.
I have a Dean Edge single soapbar bass. I replaced the clunky black metal knobs with epiphone speed knobs. Then I replaced the jack with one I found online, it no longer breaks up the signal. I replaced the soapbar pickup, which was a actually terrible quality ceramic guitar humbucker, with a custom made KSV triplebucker. It's a split coil (humbucking) alnico V jazz pickup wired in series with an rail pickup with a ceramic magnet in the middle. I use this humbucker in series, single (favoring the jazz pickup) and parallel. In series it sounds like an Aria SB pickup, in single mode it sounds like the middle ground between a Rick and a Jazz bass (with the right amp settings I can make it sound IDENTICAL to either), and in parallel it has a really weird sound kind of like an out-of-phase music man with low output.
It's one hell of a bass guitar, I would recommend it to anyone who likes the 1980's bodies with really thin necks. Swap out the electronics and you've got a really nice instrument.
It's one hell of a bass guitar, I would recommend it to anyone who likes the 1980's bodies with really thin necks. Swap out the electronics and you've got a really nice instrument.
I love this, I’m considering building one, but using a p pickup in a MM shape housing. I think that would look more pleasing.
Jazzdogg
Less barking, more wagging!
I keep toying with the idea of a fretless five-string with three controls: a mute switch and two knobs: variable high-pass and low-pass filters.
On all of the RondoMusic Hadean violin style bass ukes, I've had Eric's Guitar Repair Shop replace the partially adjustable floating wood bridge (with a hit-and-miss ceramic saddle piezo pickup assembly), with an all metal fully adjustable bridge that has a piezo pickup in each saddle, for which he also makes a riser so the bridge sits high enough. He also ads an on/off slide switch so I can leave plugged in my wireless pod during breaks. I also have Pat Wilkins Finishes paint each bass to make them different from each other.
I was thinking about a dual output for trying an external filter based preamp with one pre per pickup. This seems like a possible solution.
I had my son make a thumbrest for my P-bass using his 3D printer. It turned out to be a little too far of a reach so I designed one that was inset from the edge of the pickguard. I can't fine the picture for that one.
Rick B.
Rick B.
