Waddycall Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 (edited) Not really a build but definitely my most adventurous mod to date. Just got the wiring to do now. Better not drink too much tonight! Edited April 11, 2020 by Waddycall 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba_the_gut Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Nice mod. Those Delano hybrid pickups are really nice - wiring is a bit more complicated than usual. I presume you are going to wire it the standard way i.e. humbucker is active, jazz pickups are passive, or do you have other plans? Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Ooh, I’ve got something similar going on with my Jazz basses. I put a 3 way on/on/on switch to use either coil, or both in parallel to get the classic MM tone. Nice job on the routing by the way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddycall Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 10 hours ago, Jabba_the_gut said: Nice mod. Those Delano hybrid pickups are really nice - wiring is a bit more complicated than usual. I presume you are going to wire it the standard way i.e. humbucker is active, jazz pickups are passive, or do you have other plans? Cheers Got to admit I’m not looking forward to wiring this up! I’ve got a Sonar 2 pre which I think will just fit in the bottom of the cavity. It’s going to be a tight squeeze. Otherwise it’ll need more butchery. I’m going with the schematic below which I think is the standard way of wiring these up. Looking forward to trying this out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Very smart work on a very smart mod. What do you do to pan between pickups? I am a dimwit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Oops, sorry, I see the balance pot in the diagram. Which looks very clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddycall Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 7 hours ago, songofthewind said: Oops, sorry, I see the balance pot in the diagram. Which looks very clear. Yep, pickup pan control instead of two volumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddycall Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 Well, I’m going to quit before I ruin this today. I’ve got the components mounted on the control plate and have soldered a few connections. Unfortunately my soldering iron tip has seen better days as has my eye sight for detailed work. I think I need to sort out my soldering equipment and get a magnifier before I carry on with this! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddycall Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 All done! Bit of a nightmare doing the wiring. Probably the fiddliest thing I’ve ever done! Had a couple of issues including wiring the jack socket up the wrong way round and I also managed to overheat the treble pot with my dodgy soldering iron. Once I moved to the garage and kept the tip super clean with a wire brush on my pillar drill it got a bit easier! I think I’ll order a spare treble pot. Contact cleaner has got it working ok but id rather be safe than sorry. after a quick set up it’s sounding as I’d hoped. Really nice to get some passive jazz tones out of my ray! The Ray pickup sounds pretty authentic to my ears too. I’ll see if I can post some recordings later. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Interesting pickups. Great work. Oh, and nice vintage sewing machine 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dov65 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I like that a lot bud, really well done 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 That looks super nice. Would love to hear some sound clips. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Nice neat work, it looks great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddycall Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 Thanks a lot for the nice words chaps. I'm really pleased with this. Its made it into a really versatile bass. In my hands it was a bit too limited before but I really like everything about this bass now. Here's some dodgy slap playing for you to sample. It cycles through the following settings and changes every four bars when there's a cymbal crash. I fumbled around in real time to make the changes so was quite limited to what I could fiddle with. The active settings have a slight treble and bass boost and passive has the tone wide open. Its straight through my interface to Cubase with no tweaking. In active the bridge pickup is in MM mode and when passive its in J mode. 1. Active Bridge (MM) 2. Active Centre (Bridge MM and J Neck) 3. Active J Neck (bit harsh!) 4. Passive J Neck 5. Passive Centre (Bridge J and J Neck) 6. Passive bridge (J) Cheers, Pete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Sounds punchy on all settings. J neck soloed maybe not so much, but all tasty. Good work! Colour me jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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