theitalianrob Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 I was looking for bass humbuckers and came across the Rio Grande Pitbull, http://www.riograndepickups.com/scart/Prod...ctName=For+Bass , and i was wondering if anyone has every tried these or even tried any of their other humbuckers. and also, is there anywhere i can get the dimensions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j. pierce Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 I *tried* to get these through a couple of suppliers, as I thought it would be asthetically pleasing with my last build. I ended up on indeterminate waiting lists - no one could get it in stock (even though at the time, music toyz said they had it in stock) and after waiting months, I ended up contacting the manufacturer (Rio Grande) The price they offered was considerably more than any of their resellers, and being over-budget already, I instead ended up re-working the design to work with a Seymour Duncan Rickenbacker neck pickup retrofit that I scored cheaply. I'm very happy with that pickup, but I would have loved to try the Rio Grande. Although somewhat larger, there's also the Gibson bass pickups, I believe Allparts and a few other places sell repros of those. Humbucker-sized bass p'ups show up occassionally on eBay as well, often no-name imports, or p'ups from wierd old basses (Teisco's or something? I don't know) I know I've seen parts (four pole piece hole chrome covers, and four-hole baseplates) for winding humbucker-sized bass p'ups either at Allparts or Guitar Jones or somewhere, if DIY winding is your thing... The only major issue I see is that the Pitbull would need to be towards the neck, as some basses have too wide a string spread towards the bridge for it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theitalianrob Posted March 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 ok, cause right now i have an emg select bass humbucker witch is really weak sounding so i was lookign for a more beefy sounding upgrade but i didn't want to do too much routing. I have an old japanese j-bass body for the 60's that i frankensteined with a new neck and electronics. There is an old bass humbucker at the neck witch it super nice soundign but i cant seem to find anything like it. I saw an old univox one on ebay a wile back that was similar but never again, hard to find this shape in bass pickups i suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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