brian d Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 Many times an original thought has been thought of before. My latest is to use a P-Bass pickup for a uke type instrument. I know that it has been done with part of the pickup like this but I was thinking of using one half as the neck pup and the other half as a bridge pup running as a humbucker when wired in series. I'd like to pick your brains about wiring such a beast. A bass pickup usually uses 250K pots, a humbucker for more guitar type instruments usually has 500K pots....which would you use for this configuration where it is a bass pickup but being used as a non-bass humbucker? For switching, I was thinking about either a mini-toggle for "coil splitting" either way which would act like a 3 way pickup switch (bridge single/humbucker/neck single) OR push/pull with series/parallel (less choices, but maybe better ones?) OR mini-toggle with series/one coil/parallel (is being able to split one coil and not the other worth having an extra switch?) This is all new territory for me, so any advice would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 just a quick point. you realize most of the ukes are nylon string.... but yeah its cool idea. i have some bass pickups if you want them lol someone gave me a box of pickup and i have been trying to get rid of them for two years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim37 Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 a lot of guys split up pbass pickups for cigarbox guitars you might try to do some searches at cigar box nation or one of the other sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 hey thanks good idea yeah i always ask people cause i do so many pickup swaps and people just give me bunch of them. plus i closed out a repair center lol ie they closed i jumped into a dumpster to get stuff lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedishLuthier Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 I don't remember what value I used for the volume for that ukulele, but I *think* it was 500K. But at the same time, if you add a bridge pickup it migh be good to use a 250K to tame the top end a bit. The sound in that uke have a good amount of bite even though the pickup is in the neck position only. I think that a bridge pickup will be quite trebly/harsh. Anyway, I think you should keep things simple and go with a P90 Gibson setup, ie a two single coil pickup config with a simple three way switch for neck/neck + bridge/brigde selection. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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