NGD: Mustang Pawn Shop Bass-Sound clips added

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So earlier today i used an on-on-on mini switch to set up a toggle for Series(stock)-coil tap-parallel humbucker wiring. It worked out well and sounds great. This should be the stock setup from Fender IMO.

This is the diagram i followed from the TalkBass forums. The image there shows the + going to the middle lug on the volume pot but its actually the right lug if youre looking at it from the top. That was addressed in the forum in a later post.
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And this is the final result on the outside. This is about the only place the switch would fit without routing the body. Turned out pretty well
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Great stuff! It's things like this and putting a bucker under a jazzy pup cover that make me think Fender are making shit up as they go along. These guys should be fucking experts on what works by now.

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Mattsican wrote:So earlier today i used an on-on-on mini switch to set up a toggle for Series(stock)-coil tap-parallel humbucker wiring. It worked out well and sounds great. This should be the stock setup from Fender IMO.

This is the diagram i followed from the TalkBass forums. The image there shows the + going to the middle lug on the volume pot but its actually the right lug if youre looking at it from the top. That was addressed in the forum in a later post.
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And this is the final result on the outside. This is about the only place the switch would fit without routing the body. Turned out pretty well
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Cool, I use a slightly different Series/Split/Parallel config, but that one works, too.

For this, I'd probably just use a push-pull but that's just me.
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I recorded a little sound byte direct thru my toneport with the tuner on. So its about at direct as i can get. No effects compressors or EQing done, just toggled.
First sample is full stock HB series(toggle up), second is Bridge coil tap(toggle middle), third is full humbucker parallel (toggle down). I'm tuned to drop c at the moment so at the end i do a a few chuggas in the same order and it sounds a tad floppy.
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honeyiscool wrote:For this, I'd probably just use a push-pull but that's just me.
I didn't even think of the push pull pots. A little late now that I already drilled the hole. Oh well. Switches look cooler anyways.
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Wait, did I miss something or is there no new sound clip from after the mods? I am curious to hear how it sounds now.
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No it has all three modes on the clip. I played the same part three different times in 1 clip using each switching mode. I was lazy and didn't make three separate clips. 2 and 3 are fairly similar (2 has a hum cuz of the single coil that cant be heard well on the clip and is a tiny brighter/thinner). 1 is bassy and obnoxiously loud compared to the others.
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Id say there's a tad more mids in the coil tap also
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Oh okay, I was looking for a youtube vid and completely missed the Soundcloud link. Sounds fucking awesome, man.
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Here's a couple youtube metal cover vids i did with it... still need to an proper demos. The second vid gets all off with the sound for some reason.
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Pens wrote:Shit. That's fucking hot.
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