Duarte Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 A 1993 MIJ I picked up in Bangkok for roughly £200. The pots had fallen apart, a few dings, but otherwise good. Good neck, with some really nice flame in the maple. I spoke to basschat's KiOgon about some new electronics, and he whipped me up a 62 3-hole control plate with a pickup selector (neck, series, parallel, bridge) and tone switch (capacitor, bypass, kill) and maaaaan she is singing. Whacked on an omega bridge and some new hybrid slinkies and I have myself a solid funk machine. Who knew that series mode on a jazz was so good? I almost didn't include it, as I was on a quest for simplicity. Also, no volume knob is fun - the bass is either on or off, fun mode or rest mode. My old school radio knobs ended up not quite fitting, so I'm now looking for knobs, but otherwise, I'm delighted. What do ya reckon?? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Nice find! I would love to hear what it sounds like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duarte Posted June 6, 2020 Author Share Posted June 6, 2020 13 minutes ago, songofthewind said: Nice find! I would love to hear what it sounds like. It sounds incredible - super growly and aggressive in tone bypassed mode, super deep and phat in tone on mode. Silent in off mode! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 (edited) Cool, congratulations. Not exactly a real Jazz Bass, but on my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, which is also equipped with 2 J style pickups, the pickups have been permanently wired in series directly to the output jack socket, and now it sounds truly great, despite those cheap stock pickups making it sound right out sounding hideously before I did that mod when they were wired in standard parallel connection, no matter what combination, blend or adjustments I made. Series mode indeed sounds great, actually it is like if a third completely different humbucker pickup had been installed in your bass. Edited June 6, 2020 by Baloney Balderdash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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