Owen

[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1351070876' post='1846827'] Here's a useful review of the Model Js which gives more detail on the coil configuration and series/parallel switching. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/165194-dimarzio-model-j-dp123/"]http://basschat.co.u...-model-j-dp123/[/url] Separate series/parallel switching for neck and bridge pups should give loads of tonal flexibility and looks like a great option to me. Tempted to try it myself. [/quote] That sounds like what I am looking for. Sorry Mr Byrne, I should have listened in the first place Now to find ones in 5 string format. I'm sure Mr Wizard can come up with something suitable

But is there a difference in windings? More/less? Is it just the two coils going into humbucking mode which change the character of the sound or is it to do with more/less wire on the coil? I am not being deliberately stupid here.

So a J is single coil. A P is humbucking. Could a J have two coils (I have seen these so know they exist) but with a kind of coil tap so that I had access to the correct J windings and the correct P windings? I am aware that there is an element of compromise about all this. Perhaps I should just S1 it and get over myself. I am now getting into dangerous territory that I only 20% understand so forgive me for any crass stupidity

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1351064115' post='1846707'] This sounds interesting, but I cannot see the pic Is it just me? [/quote] It was obviously just me. It is there in all it's glory on my computer at work.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1351022607' post='1846398'] I stealthed a J pickup into my P bass at the 24th fret position. I chiselled out the cavity deep enough to hide a J pickup (and a bunch of Strat pickup magnets to boost the range of the pickup). [/quote] This sounds interesting, but I cannot see the pic Is it just me?

Thanks for all the comments. I guess the obvious thing to do is push the pickup in my P right down and suck it and see. I will not be ruining anything which exists, I am just thinking about doing a build (as in someone doing it for me, obv!).

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1351002097' post='1846061'] I haven't got a clue but I had a listen to you tunes on soundcloud and I really like them. Especially the first one 'don't leave your joy behind' great vocals. [/quote] Oh........ ah........... shucks....... thanks

So, because I seem to have too much time on my hands I am thinking about basses. What would be nice would be a J with a P pickup as well. So far so good. However, what I would like would be the P pickup to not be visible - aesthetics and all that. If I routed the back of a body so that I could have a P pickup [i]just[/i] hiding beneath the surface of the body would it function properly or is this just another stupid idea in my huge catalogue of stupid ideas?

I have a Realist and a Fishman Platinum Pro pre-amp I am about to put up for sale. £90 for each if you (or anyone else) is intersted.

Big power stages = big tone. Sad but true.

Pickups. End of. I have had expensive basses squeal. I have had cheap basses squeal. I have had SC basses TOTALLY shielded. Still squeal. I have had HB basses squeal. We have one in church so I get to experiment with this every week

The whole concept works for me.

I just want a J5 in black with matching headstock that has been reliced. Or one in Oly White. Is it so much to ask?

[quote name='njr911' timestamp='1350421329' post='1838749'] I'd love a Bravewood. Old guitars are just nice objects for some reason. And the closest I can afford these days would b a relic. I have been fortunate to own a 61 jazz master but wouldn't want to take an irreplaceable guitar to the pub. [/quote] I had a Bravewood P and have an old J finished in Nitro which is well knackered. The Bravewood pushed all my old Fender buttons completely.

I am not for a second dissing the small and lightweight thing. I have totally signed up to it and could not haul those two cabs around even if I wanted to. I am not looking at a neo vs heavy scenario. It was just exciting to have a wall of air moving. I'm sure 2 lightweight 2x15" cabs would do exactly the same thing.