Pit pull for cheap

http://cgi.ebay.com/RIO-GRANDE-PITBULL-BASS-HUMBUCKER-PICKUP-fits-Gibson_W0QQitemZ180387203598QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar_Accessories?hash=item29ffea4a0e&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_500wt_1134

This could be a great deal

Awesome pickups, high out put with coil splitting option. Down side is they are guitar humbucker sized.

I almost put a bid on it, but do not have a use. Still hard to let this go for under $40

Aah...man...too bad I don't have any more bread to spend on bass right now. I got that multi effects unit that should be coming in the next couple of days and I am really low on cash.

One of the things I want to try really bad is a Thunderbird pickup replica (one of the super expensive Mike Lull pickups) in my Hamer Blitz in the bridge position. That bass can always use more chrome hardware and a whole chrome pickup+surround would look killer! If not that, then I'd love to give a Pitbull a try. I think I've got a chrome bezel or two kicking around already...

The Pitbull went for $24 what a steal. They now cost $125 each



The Lp pickups are the same pickup just under chrome covers $119 for set is a great deal as originally they were $125 a set before Gibson stopped selling them on the open market several years ago.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gibson-Thunderbird-Bass-Guitar-Pickup-Set-Chrome_W0QQitemZ260455353029QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar_Accessories?hash=item3ca4594ac5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_1488wt_1119

Barklessdog wrote:

The Lp pickups are the same pickup just under chrome covers $119 for set is a great deal as originally they were $125 a set before Gibson stopped selling them on the open market several years ago.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gibson-Thunderbird-Bass-Guitar-Pickup-Set-Chrome_W0QQitemZ260455353029QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar_Accessories?hash=item3ca4594ac5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_1488wt_1119

I *just* got a set of these in the mail yesterday, I'm going to put them into a bass I'm building myself, though I'm not making the neck.

I'm still undecided as to what positions, I'd assume the Thunderbird positions would prove good, but I was also thinking to have the neck pickup in the "P" position, and the bridge one pretty close to it.


Oh, and Barkless, the center wire is hot, and the braided outer shell is the ground wire, no?
I've never wired pickups like this before, and attaching them to a blade switch is looking like its gonna be tricky....

I had someone wire it for me . sorry.

Barklessdog wrote:

I had someone wire it for me . sorry.

Its cool dude, I'ma just test it now, I have a spare jack just for rigging up test pickups.

I'm right, so its gonna make it a balls to wire it the way I had planned, I have to think on this some more.

How were you going to wire them?

Chowderboots wrote:

How were you going to wire them?

Blade switch, takes the pickup not in use completly out of the circut.

Mhmm. Will a Gibson-style 3 way be able to get close enough to what you're trying to do?

Chowderboots wrote:

Mhmm. Will a Gibson-style 3 way be able to get close enough to what you're trying to do?

I'm not a big fan of those personally. I'd rather be able to do things like having one pickup more prevalent than the other. I guess you could use a 5 way switch and have the 2 position be 1/3 bridge 2/3 neck, and the 4 position be 1/3 neck, 2/3 bridge, but it would be a pain to wire. Or are you going to have 2 volume knobs as well like on an LP? Because since I got my Kramer I've really liked that configuration

Chowderboots wrote:

Mhmm. Will a Gibson-style 3 way be able to get close enough to what you're trying to do?

It would work, but I greatly prefer the blade style, I have the wiring problem figured out now anyway, turned out to be no biggie.

Kugelspot wrote:

I'm not a big fan of those personally. I'd rather be able to do things like having one pickup more prevalent than the other. I guess you could use a 5 way switch and have the 2 position be 1/3 bridge 2/3 neck, and the 4 position be 1/3 neck, 2/3 bridge, but it would be a pain to wire. Or are you going to have 2 volume knobs as well like on an LP? Because since I got my Kramer I've really liked that configuration

I have never had a need to have both pickups on at different volumes, not to mention the extra tone loads of two vols, two tones, I'm choosing pickup selector, master vol, master tone, all I need, well, that and a little extra trick...

Tell me more! I'm curious to know about how you're going to wire this...I have a couple ideas for interestingly wired basses in my mind, so I'd like to see what other people are dreaming up!

Chowderboots wrote:

Tell me more! I'm curious to know about how you're going to wire this...I have a couple ideas for interestingly wired basses in my mind, so I'd like to see what other people are dreaming up!

Basically, its got the two Gibby buckers, first goes through the switch, so I have the non used pickup *completly* out of the circut, master volume, with a capacitor so it dosen't get muddy as I roll the volume down(I like to do swells), and a master tone, I could get by without, but this bass is gonna be bright, I'm thinking, and I like the tone rolled down a little when they're real bright(espcially good for pick play), and the last treat, an EMG Afterburner!

A push/pull pot, that does nothing pushed, but when pulled, becomes a gain booster, the knob rolls up how much gain you want, up to +20 db, which is IIRC over 10 times a normal basses volume, great for overdriving amps and pedals!

Holy crap that sounds so cool, man...holy crap. I want to do that, but with a stereo setup! You're awesome, Darkstrike.


For an Irishman.

Chowderboots wrote:

Holy crap that sounds so cool, man...holy crap. I want to do that, but with a stereo setup! You're awesome, Darkstrike.


For an Irishman.

Hmmm, stereo, I must wire a bass in stereo in the future, my Ricalike would make a perfect cannidate....

And you know Irishmen are the awesomest around.


If you take the meaning of awesome as drunk......

The afterburner sounds awesome. I might put one on my Spector on of these days

Kugelspot wrote:

The afterburner sounds awesome. I might put one on my Spector on of these days

You can get them in a switch form too, and you select how much boost you want from the control cavity, cheaper, but I think the easily accesible variable control is a better idea.

Stereo is awesome, man!

I must be Irish!

It does...is the Afterburner passive? Is that what it is--a clean boost?

I think with that much boost it would have to be active, right?

I don't know...

http://www.emginc.com/products/index/69

Chowderboots wrote:

Stereo is awesome, man!

I must be Irish!

It does...is the Afterburner passive? Is that what it is--a clean boost?

Its active, theres no way to make a passive booster, IIRC, needs juice to pump the volume up. Its 9, or 18v, I'm gonna go 18, for maximum headroom.

It is a clean booster, but of course, if you get too loud, things will get dirty, which is what I want!

It says it works with passive pickups, not electronics. And it comes with a battery clip

Cool thing is the battery(ies) will last over 1400 hours.

Wow. That's a long time.

Thats one of the greatest things about EMG stuff, low draw on the batterys.

Yeah. I notice that I've had that battery in my Jackson for half a year.

And I bet it'll be there for that much again before running out.

It has no sign of cutting out right now.

Does the pitbull could be a replacement pickup on my viola bass?

What size pickups are in your Epi?

Just from looking at photos, I think the Epiphone's pickups are slightly longer and narrower than Pitbulls. I don't know, though.

After checking Epi's site, no, they're Mini Buckers, won't fit.