Toaster in a P Bass

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:56 am

And Gibson humbucker in a 325

As if anyone needed anymore proof that the 70s were weird. Great band, though, travelling or otherwise:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOV7J_oHqQ&search=creedence%20clearwater

green_us90 · Post by **green_us90** » Sun May 14, 2006 4:38 am

That would be a very cool mod I think.

henny · Post by **henny** » Sun May 14, 2006 4:48 am

God knows why you'd want to do that, but oh well.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun May 14, 2006 5:07 am

He started out playing Ric 4001's, many people put neck pickups in P basses back then. I bought a 68 P bass in 77 which had a neck EB-0 pickup in it along with the split pickup which came out promptly. A stock P bass really has a lot of mids, no real bottom like the neck on a Ric, evidently Stu wanted that bottom.

teb · Post by **teb** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:56 am

My old fretless Gibson had their humbucker at the neck and a Precision for the bridge, stereo wired into both channels of an Acoustic 140 head and Sunn folded horns. It had the big low end of the mudbucker with the percussion added by the P-Bass run as bright as possible. It still sounds and records better than 90% of the basses I've ever played. Available choices for modifying pickups and instrument sound were very limited back then. We didn't have all the specialty manufacturers and very few bass players had more than just the tone controls on their bass and amp to work with, so mixing pickups was pretty common. Some worked very well, some didn't.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:41 pm

Hey Todd, I'm 53 also, it isn't time to retire from music yet although the big rooms are also way behind me. Biggest place I ever played was a 5000 seat Civic Center, opening for Molly Hatchet, so are the free trips to Europe to record in Germany but I still have fun.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Sun May 14, 2006 5:06 pm

a toaster in a p-bass ... why not?