Author Topic: Silly question I know... (Read 1856 times)

Sailor Charon · « **on:** February 25, 2007, 07:55:13 PM »

but do the coils of a two coil pickup have to be right next to each other, or can there be a small gap?
[I ask, because the pickups on Mylene's bass are, now I look again, oddly spaced. They seem to be J-type pickups (by their length) and are layed out as a wider one at the bridge (possible humbucker/paired coils?) the other two aren't so much middle and neck as neck and very close to neck - there's maybe a coil's width between them. And I was wondering whether they might be parts of the same pickup...]

Muzzzz · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2007, 10:05:12 AM »

Dunno.

:D

Philly Q · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2007, 01:28:08 PM »

The coils of a humbucking pickup normally have to be right next to each other (or stacked) because they share the same magnet(s).

I think you need a pair of single-coils for your neck/middle pickups, but if you wanted you could create a "humbucker" by having one of the pair reverse-wound/reverse-polarity and wiring the pair in series.

Sailor Charon · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2007, 04:28:59 PM »

Quote from: Philly Q

The coils of a humbucking pickup normally have to be right next to each other (or stacked) because they share the same magnet(s).

I think you need a pair of single-coils for your neck/middle pickups, but if you wanted you could create a "humbucker" by having one of the pair reverse-wound/reverse-polarity and wiring the pair in series.

Thanks. It's not going to be an issue for a while. I just wondered because of the general lack of identifiable controls - I noticed that bass guitars sometimes don't have pickup selectors, and rely on adjusting the volumes... and there didn't seem to be enough dials/knobs for 3 pickups...

One other question, why doesn't there seem to be the same variety of bass pickups as guitar pickups? (Lower sales?)

Philly Q · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2007, 06:14:46 PM »

Quote from: Sailor Charon

... and there didn't seem to be enough dials/knobs for 3 pickups...

Well, no offence to whoever draws Mylene, but I suspect he/she has little or no knowledge of guitar construction. You might have to be a bit creative to make your bass work properly. Maybe use concentric pots so you have two knobs in the place of one?

Quote

One other question, why doesn't there seem to be the same variety of bass pickups as guitar pickups? (Lower sales?)

Well, there are quite a few different bass pickups available - look at Seymour Duncan's site for example.

Again, no offence - this time to bass players - but (with exceptions) it's not a lead instrument, it doesn't need to cut through a sound mix like guitar does. And I don't think there's so much scope/necessity for tinkering with a bass tone, you don't really need different basses for different musical styles. James Jamerson played a Precision, so does Steve Harris. It's just... bass.

Don't shoot me, bassists...

Sailor Charon · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2007, 07:43:19 PM »

Quote from: Philly Q

Quote from: Sailor Charon
... and there didn't seem to be enough dials/knobs for 3 pickups...

Well, no offence to whoever draws Mylene, but I suspect he/she has little or no knowledge of guitar construction. You might have to be a bit creative to make your bass work properly. Maybe use concentric pots so you have two knobs in the place of one?

Not sure who it was who'd have been responsible for her bass, but I think you're probably right....Actually, I'm sure that if he had been he'd not have used such eccentric tuners. :) [The character designer would be Haruhiko Mikimoto, wheras the mechanical designer was Shoji Kawamori. I think it would have been one of them.]
I'm sort of guessing that the two round features on the lower part of the body are pots, with a pair of concentric ones (volume?) and a seperate single one (tone?) And, of course, in 204x they no longer need output jacks...
Anyway, thanks for the help and advice.