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Post by roadtonever on Aug 28, 2011 14:02:06 GMT -5
Managed to dig up some more related BL-penned diagrams:  I bet this one is functionally equvilient to the top one in my previous post.  If I'm reading it right it's master vol and tone with an extra tone control push-pull to Q-filter on the bridge pickup. |
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Post by cynical1 on Aug 28, 2011 14:55:53 GMT -5
Funny that you linked to a Ripper bass. I owned one of those for a few years. IMHO, I thought it was one of the worst sounding basses I ever owned. Tone #3 was the only remotely usable tone, and that was only after I pulled the frets.
Not to blame it all one the circuit. The pickups were more then likely the culprit...for what it's worth...
HTC1
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Post by roadtonever on Aug 28, 2011 17:11:49 GMT -5
I'm sure you're right about the pickups. Bill has told of Gibson being incredibly cheap-butt when he worked with them, not giving him have much to work with essentially.
BTW IME the circuit performs best when you determine the tone cap value for a resonace between 1500-2000Hz, which produces a sweet Stanley Clarke-like growl on the bridge pickup and a rather convincing upright-like tone on the neck pickup. But any other resonace determined by a favored tone cap value can be used as a reference. Of course the resonance changes between pickups selected/combined which the inductor control can adress specifically with some limitations. For straight series combined pickups it's not very effective IME. So decisions might need to be made on "where" you'd make the best use of the inductor control depending on pickup switching used and whether one pickup is significantly hotter than the other. Using a larger inductor than BL's would make it more flexible, in theory. The strength lies in that the inductor control is variable and can be used fairly intuitively for resonance tuning and bass enhancement once set-up. And passively!
Anyway, since I've gone through all this I'd be glad to guide you through the process should you need it. The pickups inductance is important to know.
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Post by roadtonever on Sept 9, 2011 6:16:29 GMT -5
I take back my previous statement on the un-effectiveness of the inductor control for series combined pickups. I guess I meant to say that it wasn't effective for typical electric bass tones. Certainly from an electronic POV there's more action when the inductor is working with series rather than parallel combined pickups. But I didn't really consider the "bass boost" when the inductor control is floored to be relevant for a normal bass rig where it sounds rather murky(at home playing through a 10W guitar amp it's nice). However for upright emulation series combined pickups get me the best tone: soundcloud.com/roadtonever/all-blues |
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