LukeFRC

It's all very complex to my mind... If I were you I would just go and buy a delano hybrid system... it looks very very nice....

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1360932873' post='1978496'] Cheers for the suggestions, i'll probably re-read this a couple of times over the next few days. Like i said though, i'll try this, then refine it if needs be. Cheers [/quote] sorry... I kinda pulled everything you were saying to pieces.... I do think you would do better blethering on here as what you want tonewise and what you're after and see what the suggestions are.... I'm no expert but i have a feeling that the pup set up you're after may not give you what you want...

I would give the benifit of the doubt... right up till I saw the text was a copy and paste job.... mind you it's gumtree so you can go and have a look.... unless you email and find out the fella has moved to Orkney or someplace

he's changed the decription a bit now there's another one popped up too at a fraction of the price

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1360913119' post='1978170'] I don't think what you have suggested will give you what you are looking for. Choose either bolt on or thru-neck depending on your taste. But you'll need to make sure the neck is just about stiff enough, not too stiff if you want mids to be prominent. A stiff fingerboard will help keep things rigid if you opt for a higher proportion of softwoods in the neck but you'll need a super stiff spine. Maybe consider laminates of mahogany for mids and maple for rigidity and brightness with a nice and thick maple or ebony fingerboard. The body can be mahogany or alder. Chambering can tune things a little. For a broad frequency response in pickups, think about piezos and add a MM humbucker in the stingray position for extra bottom oomph, attack and graunch. You can coil tap it or make it series/parallel for variety. Just run it through a preamp with an input buffer to even out voltage changes with different coil combinations. Try a stingray with piezos out at a bassbash sometime just to see how you feel about it. If you don't like that combination, you can always have single coils added later. [/quote] ooh that's an good idea. I was thinking more towards an L2000 or similar pickup setup - but I guess it depends what kinda sound the OP wants.

nice bass that Roscoe. I've not really anything to add to this conversation, I've only ever tried friends 5 strings/in shops. I like the idea a lot, but 4 string necks like my stubby little fingers....

A friend did the same thing with his pickups, he had a yamaha with jazz pups and stuck a MM inbetween just to see what it would do. He seemed happy with it. One though... while theoretically two jazz and a MM pup would give "[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]give a great, throaty (steady on) sound, full of mids, bass and treble" it's possibly not going to work that simply, in the same way a jazz with both pups on has a slight mid cut, you may find you have all sorts of different frequencies being cut out(is combing the correct phrase?) also the way a pickup is contsructed has a massive effect on how it 'sees' the string. A humbucker with fat wide poles like a MM pickup sees the string differently to say a jazz pickup where the string goes between two magnets. Personally if I was going to have two jazz pups and a MM then I would go for jazz pups like the Delanos with the fat poles so they all were working off the same idea. But then I doubt personally I would ever run them all on at the same time.[/font][/color] [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]Also... stacked, humbucking, overwound jazz pups... could possibly give the opposite of "great treble response" ... ? that's what I would have thought, though what kinda great are you looking for.[/color][/font] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]But... reading what you write again... you want a throaty sound fill of bass mids treble.... so given that you are wanting more of the whole tonal spectrum... what do you want? My thought would be that a proper choice of woods, construction [/font][/color][font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]technique and pickups and pickup placement would get you close to your sonic goals easier than a complex set up of J-MM-J ... what do you want it to sound similar too? what else bass wise gets into that sonic territory? what kinda music will you play with it? [/color][/font] [quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1360704682' post='1975220'] Now i'm looking for input on this. The body has to be built too. I'm thinking Ash, because i have no concerns about weight, but harder woods give a more bassy tone, and [b]lighter woods have more treble[/b]. I would say Ash was a soft working hardwood. Definitely doesn't have the same density as something like mahogany, or oak (an oak bass would be fantastic!), but not light and airy like alder. So should sound pretty bassy/middy. [/quote] err... if we accept that woods affect tone... I don't think lightness in and of itself give more treble. I had a fender '75ri, but made in a lighterwieght alder, it was darker than the brighter and snappier tone of the traditional ash '75ri. Things sound different but I don't think that their is a corralation between weight and brightness. Also wood weight varies depending on where in the tree it comes from, you can find some very light mahogany, ash, alder, whatever... and some heavy as fook stuff.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360776144' post='1976320'] TBH though none of it has had the impact (or sales) of Tubular Bells. [/quote] You sell 17 million billion copies of your debut album and you know it's all going to be down hill from there....

working out how to reply...

[quote][font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]Hi there, OK if it had the same hardware pickups and woods as a Warwick than it would be a Warwick. [/size][/font] You have to remember this a thumb clone, it has the same pickup placement with a 2 band active EQ system, exotic woods, same caliber of tuner's, 5 bolt neck join ETC... but at a 3rd the price of a Warwick. It's a little heaver than a Warwick but feels, sounds, plays just like one. Kind Regards, Daz. [font=arial, sans-serif][size=2][b]- woodyxbuzz[/b][/size][/font][/quote]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1360803447' post='1976945'] Don't bother, ask me directly, either here or by PM. The other fellow is only an intermediate, anyway. He never answers without first consulting me. How may I help you..? [/quote] Well he had promised me an amazing gift of a nice bass guitar, coming from a foreign land and a man who likes to hit things rhythmically... I just wondered when I could expect such provenance!?

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1360776844' post='1976341'] In good art shops years ago you could buy liquid rubber which was painted onto artwork to shield desired copy from an airbrush. Assuming you're handy enough with a paint-brush to paint over the logo & text you want to keep? After you've painted it rubs off with a pencil eraser. No idea if it's still available, but if it is it would be "the very dab" © Pa Broon. [/quote] would that work? like it's not pigment, it's several layers of nitro/acrylic topped with a clear coat....

You in the other thread.... [quote][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If all works out, this will hopefully become my main bass,[/font][/color][/quote] if it's going to be your main bass then go for it. (personally I prefer them unpainted in most cases)

[quote][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Replies to posts are always welcome, If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you![/font][/quote] just saw this in your sig. Do you know the URL of the other forum, the one God posts on? be good to ask him something

[quote]Hello Saw this bass. It looks a lot like the warwick thumb I've been longing for for a long time. How much does it weigh? You say it has "same exotic woods, hardware & quality electrics and fittings as its famous brother..." so is that wenge and bubinga neck and a bubinga body, and MEC active pickups, is it a two band active MEC EQ or a three? Also you say it's got the same fittings as a Warwick but then say they are gotoh which is it? Gotoh or Warwick fittings (which were Schaller until they made them in house I think) ? Like I said I've been wanting a Warwick Thumb for the last ten years and this looks like an afordable option! oh is it a neck through too or bolt on? cheers [/quote]

[quote name='clashcityrocker' timestamp='1360739349' post='1975550'] I see your point, I do like the finish as it is but I also like the matt nitro finish, I probs won't do it in the end. Candy apple would never my first choice but it was the only active deluxe Mexican jazz I had seen for sale in here,and I think I got a good deal :-) [/quote] sand it all the way back and respray?

[quote name='Clarky72' timestamp='1360749375' post='1975664'] Have you had anything from them at all? Do you know what their quality is like? [/quote] nope - not a clue.

thanks for that. I should't have gone onto that sort of site... now I kinda want to build a bass again. repeat after me.. I don't need another bass, I don't need another bass.....

the UK lot. they seem to be quite new.... but they do do blanks with routing for strats... and odd things like slab '66 style P basses so guess if you ask they will make things to order. http://guitarbuild.co.uk

[quote name='Clarky72' timestamp='1360747924' post='1975628'] Doesnt look as if they do blanks with routing or paddle head necks though unfortunately... Do you know who the UK company are? I looked at WD but they don't do what I'd need. [/quote] no maybe not... and I'll look it up...