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Great vid. Some here are saying EQ before drive sounds better, and it does, but that's not the point; he's got great tone to begin with. Seems the general rule is: EQ before drive does more to preserve the tone of the guitar, but is limited in its ability to do dramatic tone shaping. EQ after drive allows for dramatic changes in tone, but EQ changes are more pronounced and may end up messing with the good parts of the dry tone.
I am trying to restore an old Fender Jazz Bass Special with the help of a luthier. Some people on the web claim that the bass is wired in series in the J to P pickup route. But my luthier made a harness in parallel, aledging that a series connection would cause phase issues. Well, the original instrument used to be wired in series, so I wonder if anyone here has any thoughts on what could be done to fix the serial connection without phase issues? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!
There's no reason you cannot wire Jazz Bass pickups in series, unless you have shorts between the outer polepieces and the inner coil wraps (check for continuity between the outer polepieces and the pickup's black wire with a meter - if no continuity, then no shorts exist). Otherwise, the pickups can be wired in series like any other pickups, but not using the stock Jazz Bass wiring (obviously, since the jazz bass usually doesn't have its pickups wired in series). But there's nothing inherently different between Jazz Bass pickups and Strat or Tele pickups.
The change in character is surprisingly pronounced. Definitely sounds better to me *before* the OD in all of the examples. Here's my question though. If I also have colored clean boost before my overdrive (boosts the low mids)...should my EQuator go at the very beginning or in between the clean mid booster and the overdrive??
I’ve never given it much thought I have been playing for years since day one of owning both a eq and overdrive pedal . I mixed it up after watching this video and idk don’t like post overdrive but it’s a good chance that I’m not used to it ,it’s totally out of the norm for me. But I like getting my eq sound clean with the right tone I want then adjusting and shaping the overdrive to compliment it’s tone not just drown it out. I run a Demonfx microtubes D7k ultra as my EQ / preamp section and a demonfx alpha omicron distortion pedal straight to the FX return . I’ll be trying it again ya never know it might grow on me with some experimenting I’m playing a rickenbacker bass with a ashdown electric blue amp it’s only 180watts 1x15 cab and 4x10 cab speakers but it will rock the house
Usually, a piece of the foil is allowed to come up onto the face of the guitar and lay over one of the pickguard screw holes. So long as the foil on the back of the pickguard is grounded - and it ought to be by virtue of the grounded volume pot being in contact with it - then the foil on the back of the pickguard will be clamped to the foil in the cavity when that screw is inserted and tightened. This completes the connection.
Yes, this trick will work regardless of the pickup brand. This method will always tell you if two pickups are in phase or out of phase with each other.
Learned a ton! Thanks! BTW... have a squire tele that I put humbs in using your Big Apple Circuit. No one believes its a squire anymore. Keep it coming please.
