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I had one made a not too long ago for my p bass by Tim at Gig.ink no frills and does the job. It should be on file as reverse p pick guard if you wanna get in touch with him. If you need more details give me a pm!

I got some of these made by posting the links and had a band mate give me a ‘reference’ as per the application process. I did the same for him and we both got our moulds which are great. If you can hold off until after covid lock down (would I be right in thinking like the rest of us you’re less likely to need them now anyways?) then do try and get the discount. If not I’d still like others have said consider the ACS moulds. Good luck!

I recall seeing Dave Marks teaching the one finger per fret method as warm up/finger exercises but starting up around the 10th fret as the spacing was just more comfortable/practical.

It’ll be ‘50’ for his time in Judas Priest and their logo.

I never set mine up with any switching but by coil tap do you mean series/parallel as this will reduce the output depending on which setting it’s on. Check out some You Tube videos on it for more info. The p pick up fitted in standard size ‘Fender’ cases and I bought it to fit into a bass as opposed to buying a Schecter bass which had it fitted as standard.

I had a monster tone p pick up from Schecter, the Michael Anthony sig version and it’s a super high output pick up with over sized (think SD quarter pounder type pole pieces). I wouldn’t have described the sound as ‘typical’ more of a ‘on steroids‘ type sound. The material the magnets were made from were different to ‘regular’ pick ups (ceramic 9?) and not AlNiCo 5 which is more common although not used exclusively. This combination of larger pole pieces and materials used all add to the very high output which isn’t that common in more vintage voiced pick ups which typically would have a lower output so then they wouldn’t be driving the preamp of an amp as hard and could offer a more nuanced or dynamic playing experience rather than a full on output assault. Think of it in terms of using a natural speaking voice with rises and falls in volume versus shouting 🙂

Take the battery out and you’ll know for certain.

How does using eq after the dirt to add some lows back in work? I know some folk don’t like to eq a dirty signal but others like to enhance what the dirt does or make up for what it ‘takes away’.

Buy the pick ups first that way you have the perfect excuse for a new home for them 😉

No luck at all!

New Spector. Why not 🙂

Ooops I thought the 5502 had the MM/J config. Ignore me

You after pick ups or tone shenanigans? If it's pick up's and you wan some trickery there's some (objectively) good pick ups out there for the MM position. I like the Nordstrand Bigman with switchable coils as found in the Dan Lutz DL VM5. It's this one... I'm tempted to whack it in my p bass if I decide to go down that route in the future with the coil switch option.

That would be a very neat 410 modular rig, compact and punchy!

Shite! OK here’s the photographic proof. First pic is the SRX, second the ‘78 and in the third pic a bass I nabbed a few years back off @Dood on this forum (Shuker body/ PB70’s neck now with reverse p pick up) as a nostalgic nod to the band I was in back then when I had the ‘78 - ‘Bloodbath Callaghan and the WarCrimes’. I can assure you it’s not the same bass as the the old BCW bass as it was bought by a guitar shop in Belfast (Guitar Emporium) made to look like one of Philo’s p basses, dipped in bronze and now stands proudly beside him outside the Bruxelles pub on Harry Street in Dublin. Why make sh*t up when the truth is far more interesting!

I traded an Ibanez SRx700 for a 78' p bass!

I wish it was me I'd have turned it up louder