I really like the musical at the end where you rock out on the bass, drums and keyboard! The bass sounds much better than I was expecting in the beginning; it makes sounds a 'real' hollow body violin bass wouldn't do.
Cool, you should buy it😃 I have a lot of basses to choose from and I find myself going out with this one a fair bit, I have put mine back to standard wiring though, the stereo thing seems to have been a phase I was going through at the time, sounds great either way. Good luck😁
Thanks, and yes clarity is always top priority, I actually feel like it could do with a little more - those pots are only 100k, I might have to order in some double 250s just to make sure it doesn't get too muddy when the fresh strings play in a bit.
The other option (and one I'm looking at doing with my short scale Jaguar bass) would be to have individual volume controls with a double ganged tone control and a switch. Obviously with the size of that control panel you'd have to fit a push pull or of course 2 dual concentrics for individual control. I love going down the rabbit hole with wiring schematics and ideas
This is the bass that J used on the Rosier music video. J drives the whole song well (as per the single's mix 😂) and you can clearly hear him all throughout. I have to admit, this bass started my broke ass' fixation on japanese signature basses and I've been gassing for this one since 2009/2010. Lol. Which is sad since this one is much more rare (in my experience) compared to J's next Grassroots signature bass (the one that looks like a les paul jr with double cut away). Seen this bass float on our local fb marketplace only twice since 2010.
Very cool project, and it turned out great! Love me some stereo wiring. Though, I personally would have enjoyed some sound samples with just the bass before getting into the full mix. Feel like I couldn't fully appreciate what the new wiring job was offering tonally
I can recommend “ Orpheus “ pickups.. made by David Paul in Melbourne .. I replaced the Quarter pounders in my 85 Jazz Bass Special with them .. ( the Orpheus Jazz pickup was double the output of the Quarter pounder )
Great Job…if I can find one of these to buy..could I pay you to set it up for me ..I don’t need a stereo setup …just the other type of clean ….adjustments rtc
Good finding, i think J only used this bass on Rosier and maybe some gigs during that time they released the album but now he uses an ESP TVB double cut Gibson style bass
Indeed, I was looking at those too so I could make a follow-up video, just waiting for the exchange rate to turn in my favor so I can afford to import one. Thanks.
Yep, LTD is the "for export" brand. I don't have a lot of experience with LTD instruments but the one's I've briefly tried seemed ok, my friend just picked up a 5 string for NZD$200, no doubt I'll be getting to have a go on it sometime soon. He was talking about replacing the pickups and I asked him directly about whether they were the split magnet type, I'm still waiting to hear back about that, but he seems very happy with it.
Well spotted, yes it's a GP7 SM, just a preamp. I used it as part of my gigging rig for years and years but it's now retired to a quiet life in the studio. I'm mostly using it as a pre-eq DI for recording , but I'm taking a line out through a tuner to a small amp for monitoring. It's a great little unit, I was running it into a power amp for gigs but the amp died and I bought a Laney Nexus (keeping it British), so the trace took a quietly dignified retirement.
I'd like to do that but there are 1000's of other videos that already explain the basics, and 1000's more that go into all sorts of details about every aspect of it. Also, the comments section of any video on that subject becomes a pandora's box of pedantry with every expert coming out of the internet to complain that I've got everything wrong, which I probably would.
1:35 No, his name isn't "so unpronounceable"....It's Onose Jun (family-name first, first-name last). Here's the reference. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(musician)
I get enough shit about my accent as it is, trying to pronouce his name correctly would probably be more offensive than using the nickname that he himself adopted.
Thanks and yes, it's all my own work, I slipped a couple of covers into other videos ages ago but they all got copyright strikes, you can't cheat the bots.
Very cool bass. It would seem to be more logical to put the Pbass pickup in the bridge, with the Jazz in the neck spot then. Obviously not in this case, but if one was to design a PJ bass, then maybe a JP would be better?
You're absolutely right. I've googled it to see if it's ever been done and I only found one custom shop Fender, it looks disturbingly weird, as in it just looks wrong. I hate to think that's why they've never caught on, but we're all just so used to seeing the common arrangement. The bass with the Dimarzio Model Ps is going to 2 sets ala B.C. Rich, that's going to be a massive sound.
@@fanbladeinstruments I would like to try the double reverse split coil (as seen on FGN basses for example) basically they put two split coils in more or less a jazzbass position but backwards, so the upper coil is closer to the bridge.
i was wondering where do you find and buy these instruments from I would love to start doing what you do and would like to know where you source your instruments
Jauce.com is where I go to find these things, it's an english language aggregator for japanese auction sites. The basses I buy are all dirt cheap (and dirty), but the good people of Jauce fund themselves with a healthy commission on top of all the shipping costs. That bass cost NZD$90, but by the time it was processed and arrived at my door I'd spent closer to NZD$400. If I'd gone to a local shop and bought it off the wall the sticker price would've been more like $800 so It's still a fine option for me, but yeah, shipping costs are on the rise and they weren't all that cheap to begin with.
@@fanbladeinstruments thanks for the info. Great channel you've got here. I'm a guitar player looking to expand into bass. Been looking for a short scale bass ala Gibson eb-1 but the only close replica I can find is a $700 Eastman that's never in stock. This seems like a better option anyway. Could keep the p pickup and replace the j with a mudbucker clone. Big fan of Bruce and pappalardi style playing and tone.
I am guessing, that since only one coil plays at a time (generates electric current) in the p-pickup and the other one acts as a resistor, unlike the j-pickup, where there is only one coil; you should really count the 10k resistance of the p-pickup as 5k. In this case, the j-pickup would realistically have higher resistance, which would result in more current being produced. P-pickup has significantly more low end, therefore it appears and measures louder. Just my logic. I may be wrong though, hove been before ;)
Technically you are correct and I could see how you could arrive at that conclusion, but there's a couple of other things to consider. The J doesn't produce more current so we have to look for the reasons, and a big part of that is it's location near the bridge, but it's also due to aperture size and coil design - essentially a bigger pickup is going to see more of the string and generate a higher currant. measuring the resistance alone is actually a fairly poor way of telling how much output a pickup is going to have (and tells us nothing about tone), there are so many other factors including those above but also magnet strength, proximity to the string, and how magnetic the string even is. It's a minefield of guesswork but the best test is to just use your ears and adjust accordingly, in this case (and many others) the J pickups just don't have as high an output as the P.
I saw this on ebay. Considerd it but then thought 🤔........ naaaah Iv'e got the luna sea six string prince model. Have to say it is very very heavy but is in great condition. But the neck is really thin like a shred guitar. Dont really play it just an impulse buy .
