PaulSimonon

Niiice man, I really dig your designs. I'll have to play one sometime man. I think I need to put my designs up somewhere.

I have a couple. This is really the only singlecut I would like to build: http://cerb.trap17.com/HPIM0170.jpg It's what I think a Jerzy Drozd singlecut would look like if he made 'em. ← I love it man! I think we've got similar tastes in design, although I'm pretty sure you're a lot more analytical than I am.

I dig the second one the most myself, although I'd love the first with a little bit of tweaking, as it shares a bit of resemblence to my designs. Ever thing of drawing up a singlecut? The three octave bass might as well be one; the upper horn is cut off far enough that it's pretty much a singlecut. BTW, it's hard to make a 3 octave bass without it looking like a hyperbass, but I think you've done it.

Looking through your site breifly, I saw nothing on how this would work with a bass tremelo. You ought to mention it, and get an bass endorser. You never know who'll get discouraged by not seeing anything about it working with a bass trem. Sure, they're not as common, but us bassists deserve mention too!

Yeah, you never know with 34" how it'll end up. That's why I dig 36" for low B's. Some 35's can be kinda iffy.

Just refile the nut and you'll be grand. I don't think it'll be too floppy if he's tuning up to C.

Of course you'd have to adjust it, that's the point! How hard is it to turn a few knobs? It'll prove to be a lot harder to find pickups with good response to a low F# and the highest string, assuming he's stringing it from the F#.

Well, if you've got seperate preamp sections for treble and bass sides, I'm pretty sure that you'd find a suitably consistant tone.

You can use piccalo bass strings... Also, you could consider using the NOVAK system and use regular guit strings. As for pickups, who couldn't you use seperate pickups for the bass and treble sides? I've seen it done on some 9 string basses.

Hmm, I could see someone putting a peizo in under the fretboard. It wouldn't do too much I'd think, or get annoying when fretting. Anyone have more insights?

Don't worry man, you'll eventually learn to hear the difference in tone between them. I still can't differentiate between guitar pickups myself... I only hear differences if it's semi-hollow, a different scale, or on a tube amp if it's a guitar... Just keep playing basses with different pickups, I'm sure someone has a modded Jazz or Precision about, and you can a/b that to the stock version and so on. By the way, if you're not looking to spend too much Carvin has some great sounding pickups for pretty cheap.

Heh, some of us like that dead and thin sound! The electronics on those Cirruses are nice, I almost bought a few used, but I ended up buying a bunch of tools... And I'm pretty happy that I did.

May I suggest alder? As has already been said, it's relatively light and durable while being a very nice tonewood. Pretty easy to find too. Swamp ash is all of the above as well. I personally find basswood to be very thin sounding, it always seems to suck out a lot of bass, since it is basswood, I guess it likes to keep the lower tones for itself. As for mahogany, it's not too light. Not as heavy as a lot of things, but it's sort of hefty. Nice warm tone from it though! If I were you, I'd investigate what sort of woods will give you the tone you like.

If you'd pop over to the "A Delemma" thread, there is some useful information. If you'd check out my post, the three other manufacturers I listed are all stellar at making Jazz pickups. (If you don't want to look at my post over there, the companies are Lindy Fralin, Nordstrand, and Aero. I have a lot more detail in that post though!) The insights on Barts and EMGs are useful, and I see BluesPresence has already brought his laudation of the Lace pickups here. Oh, yeah, on the Mexi standards the wood is alder. (I'm late...) To sum everything up, a good tone from a pickup is extremely subjective. I'm a kinda modern-vintage tone lover. A really good thing to consider is split-coil Jazz pickups too. Cuts down on noise.

They use those on a lot of Fenders don't they?