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Update: Out of curiousity and thanks to this thread, I put my old RD pups back in the RD Artist, MINUS all the moog electronics. Just a standard Jazz Bass wiring. Woof. It sounds like a Rick 4001 on crystal meth with a migraine. (good). Think "Ace of Spades" era-Lemmy. So all maple... for...

FIrst off, when I got my RD I paid $250 for it. It looked like it had been dragged behind a car for about 11 years. I don't think the previous owner had a case, or a strap, or a roof. So it's not "mint" by any stretch of the imagination. I used the stock pickups & electronics for a while... I...

Dude... 6 inches? nice. I didn't know we were comparing "resistors" (ahem.) It's not how big it is, it's how you use it... :) --- P.S. Mr Line6man, Are you "line6man" as in, "you really like the sound of their stuff" and you're a fan etc..., OR, based on your expert and awe inspiring...

MMMmmmmmm. Vitamins.

Line6man, you are awesome. I remember trying to do this "no knobs" simulation before, and could never get it to work right. What wattage would the 500K resistors have to be if I wanted to use them instead of pots? I remember trying to do it before, and the only resistors I could get from the...

This is very interesting. So correct me if I'm wrong: 1) When a 250K volume pot is turned all the way up, it's still providing the full 250K of resistance? 2) Does your P-bass schematic mimic the sound of the tone pot all the way up (bright) or rolled all the way off?

I think I will go for it. Since my RD Artist is already all maple. (who knew?), and the pickups are junk, I'll try a few different styles and combos of pickups to see which works best before I have warmoth route out the new bass body. Thanks everyone for your input. MAPLE!

line6man, Your help and insight is invaluable. You're saving me a lot of time and trouble. 1) If I went back to the original setup (three knobs, vol, vol, tone, pull each vol for single coil, pull tone for series) would I still have an "issue" with running in series? 2) Is the series option...

OK. How about this configuraion... less knobs. --Two EMG-HZs in traditional Jazz Bass placement --Blend knob to mix neck and bridge, pull for series (whole guitar) --Tone Knob, pull to split both PUs. If I'm correct, that should give me the following options, with just two knobs, no switches...

I prefer reverse body basses, so I tend to suffer a lot from nosedive... Especially with warmoth's steel-reinforced necks. The only warmoth bass neck I have is Maple w/ Ebony fb. Would switching to maple on maple, or rosewood on maple make any difference? Or, better put... with a MAPLE NECK...

Thanks for the info guys. I'll poke around Mike's Music (mikesmusicohio.com) and see if they have a local tech they can recommend. And I plugged in and AB-ed all my basses last night... I think I'm going to ditch the coil tap (split) option, and just wire this one as a standard Jazz Bass. I can...

Looks like I AM nuts. I've been playing an Gibson RD Artist for about 12 years, and it's 100% maple. I didn't even know. All this time I assumed it was hard ash. I've also had a Rick before, and didn't know those were maple either. I loved the Rick tone, but the RD Artist is a tonal nightmare...

Thanks line6. That flickr set is awesome. --- Part of the problem is getting advice, or troubleshooting the wiring ideas. Maybe there's a better way to acheive the same effect wth less controls, etc... or a "have you tried this" suggestion. I guess the forum helps out in that regard. And my...

I'd love to ship my body and PUs in a box to someone like stewmac.com or bestbassgear.com and have them do my wiring, but I don't know that they provide that service, or I imagine they'd be crazy expensive. ---------------- I need to wire two jazz bass 5-wire humbuckers (EMG-HZs) in the...

First off, here's where I'm coming from. My everyday meat-and-potatoes bass is a '72 Jazz Bass, hard ash body, maple on maple neck. This is the bass I developed my style on, so I'm used to a HEAVY bass. The Jazz is around 13 or 14 pounds, and I love it. I've built a Warmoth Jazz bass before in...