![]() ![]() I was also looking at the BC-2 which has very similar output and Bass, Mid and Treble stats as the Fast Track 2. Ive been reading a lot about Darkstar pickups but they appear to more rare than hens teeth so thats out t. Currently it has one of the small vista tone single coils and I was planning on putting something with a bit more oomph. This pickup allows use of your existing covers and is built as the. I've never really been happy with the tone I've got from the Vista tone pickup and I've heard good things about putting Dimarzio pickups in their place, specifically the Fast Track 2 but they seem a bit harder to come by. Hi one and all I want to change the pickup in my Squier Musicmaster. Aero Type 1 MusicMasterer is replacement pickup intended for 4-string MusicMaster basses. I'm at university so I don't really want to have my G&L (my main bass, and pride and joy) sitting around my flat with the potential of something terrible happening to it so the Squier will be the bass I have to noodle around on. Yet it sounds shockingly decent, and it evokes the period, if not Paul.After a recent flurry of gear selling my only back up bass is a Squier Musicmaster. Hardly surprising, given that Hofners are hollowbodied, and I was playing a solidbody with guitar pickups. The part jumps across all four strings, and I don’t hear any glaring volume discrepancies. So I dived in a recorded a track with it, for a TV commercial cue that called for a bright, dopey ’60s bubblegum rock sound. 2.972.923 Posts: 418 Joined: Thu 6:10 pm Musicmaster pickup replacement by unreal77 » Sun 8:28 pm Hi Got my late 70’s musicmaster bass fixed but the pickup seems to be on its last days. That's why this one's in my shop: the owner says it's 'too bright and twangy. Musicmaster pickup replacement 5 posts of 1 unreal77 PAT. But the Musicmaster Bass didn't set the world on fire with its thin sound. The 30' scale was handy for guitarists who occasionally covered on bass. Using a 6 pole guitar pickups works but it is less than ideal. Or would they? Here’s a four-note phrase played on each of the four strings: Italia Balance Test Power output: 12 watts, RMS, 26 watts peak music power. ThePickupWizard Website Custom 1970's Musicmaster Style Bass Pickup Alnico 5 Magnets 7.0K to 7.5K Ohms 85.00 US Specs To reduce costs on this budget model bass, Fender often used a Musicmaster or Stratocaster 6 pole guitar pickup hidden in a solid top black plastic cover. The polepieces aren’t even positioned under the strings! Surely the levels between strings would be mismatched. Italia Custom 5 PickupĪ pretty substantial upgrade, is it not? (Now, you know better than to evaluate bass tones through laptop speakers, right? Go get your headphones.) Installing a pickup made for six-string guitars into a 4-string bass isn’t recommended by Seymour Duncan, or for that matter, anyone with a lick of sense. Deluxe 'F' Stamp Bass Tuning Machine Set. 10-Hole Contemporary Jazz Bass Pickguards. 4-Bolt Vintage-Style Neck Plate (No Logo) Fender 1951 Precision Bass Neck. Roasted Maple Precision Bass Neck, 20 Medium Jumbo Frets, 9.5', Maple, C Shape. So I did something really dumb and popped in a pair of Custom 5s. Pickguard - Control Plate Mounting Screws (24) Fender Strap Blocks. I had my eye on a Custom Shop Hawkbucker, but I needed something Beatles-esque for a jingle session. … nothing that would fit the Maranello, which is routed for a guitar-sized humbucker. So I pawed through my box of Seymour Duncan pickups and found… This is a drop-in-replacement pickup and includes a. It didn’t sound bad, exactly, but I thought I hotter pickup might improve things. The original pickup is a 6 pole piece Strat pickup, but the Aero Musicmasterer 4 Type 1 is a four pole piece pickup with the correct string spacing for Musicmaster basses when the original bass remains unmodified Proper string spacing will eliminate the distortion due to magnet misalignment. Given the instrument and the relatively dull-toned pickups, I didn’t expect anything massive-sounding. ![]() I strung it up with flatwounds, figuring I’d try to use it as a pseudo-Hofner, something to use for melodic parts that didn’t demand massive low end. Originally, these used a 6-string guitar pickup under the cover. 1 Squier Bronco Bass pickup replacement 01-08-2005, 01:05 PM I just bought a squier Bronco bass, the bass is cool, However the pickup is a piece of poo - 6 pole pieces are just visible under the cover, so its just a strat p.u. But it’s cool if you like weird, trashy stuff. Musicmaster / Bronco Single Coil Bass Bold, thumping low end with a generous side of clarity is what were serving. The only “Italy” in “Italia” is the fact that their instruments look like the Brand X axes being made in Italy, Gemany, and Sweden nearly 50 years ago. It looks like it’s from the ’60, but is, in fact, a modern instrument designed by Brit luthier Trev Wilkinson and built in Korea. I’ve got this weird Italia Maranello bass I picked up years ago when I was playing in the Eels. ![]()
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