Re: Make my 4003 Meaner
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 5:42 pm
So you used a ferrous mounting plate and magnetized the adjustment screws as well as the pup surround. Not sure if that was a good idea. The 60's and 70's basses used a non ferrous aluminum pick up mounding plate. There was charging anything but the pick up.Becky wrote:What about the treble pickup base? On mine (a high gain, I presume?) it was made of black nylon (possibly glass-reinforced nylon, but still just plastic), so I replaced it with a steel one to get more metal and magnetism and everything, in a non-horseshoe kind of way. That and bunging in ye olde capacitor on the treble side certainly changed the sound a bit from original, which was a bit too round for my liking. But it's been that way for so long now that I can't really imagine it any other way! It might sound a little like the current crop of 4003s, or perhaps it has its own sound, I've no idea.aceonbass wrote:Using 70's 4001 pickups will help a little bit, but not much.
Long Distance Runaround has a very woody sort of sound to it, I think. I often think Squire was playing above the bass pickup for that one to get more of the string moving under the pick than playing closer to the bridge.
Sepp