In the end of November first part of December 2024. I bought this sunburst “G“ Larry fretless. I had a double j humbucker already. Which I decided to install it between a split coil on the generic P bass & the bridge. The pictures of show my progress and fuckups. What my brother’s birthday was in the 28th of March. So I told him I’ll build them a bass. Here’s a picture of her together she’s not done completely. I just put it together this stuff get an idea what she’s going to look like, and to show her off!
Any thoughts on “G“ Larry fretless P bass. With the double jazz humbucker, and Stratocaster style output Jack,
I’ve got Guyker open tuning machines ready to be installed. But, I need to finish work &polishing to her headstock. Besides wiring are all together. I’m going to wire her just like a jazz bass or PJ bass. A volume for the neck and bridge pickup. With the blended pot between the two. The parts I’m going to be using are 100k cheap Amazonian pots both volumes, and that MN 250k blend pot. With a 15 microfarad capacitor.
Hey Bubba, so assuming a standard tone circuit, if you are using a 100k tone pot, even turning it from wide open to 90% open drops the filter cutoff frequency to 5Hz (well below audible) with a capacitor this large. And that’s just the first 10% of the range.
Larger tone pot values make this worse, not better.
Mostly I am curious how you have this wired and why it makes any tone at all at anything other than wide open.
I haven’t had a chance to get to the wiring yet. But, I’m going to follow this Seymour Duncan Jazz Bass with a blend pot. Is change out the Cap from what they have pictured. To a 15uF capacitor!!!
She’s going to sound sweet and gorgeous let me screaming on stage. She ain’t the first one I built, and she definitely will not be the last. Howard I’ll show you why my evil genius ideas always work.
I just realized I miscalculated because the tone pot will be a log pot and that top 10% is steep. So the cutoff frequency with that cap will actually be about 0.1-0.5Hz.
I appreciate your input. I also know that you have a lot more experience than I do.
From what you are saying. You are extremely doubtful. That my crazy ass wiring job. Will not perform as good as I believe it will.
I built a Dean Vendetta for my brother. I bought two high output humbuckers. Plus I used basically the same exact set up. That I’m going to be doing really soon. I had 100K for the volume and tone pots with a 6.8uF Cap.
Heck Yeah! Split that Double Jazz coils. as it shifts from the Fender Modern to the Fender 70s position it sounds different just between the 2 coils position alone. I have that setup on my Fretless. Put its own tone control and you’ll have a very unique tone on the fretless.
Awesome build man. That’s my build too with the P/JJ
Thank you brother I truly appreciate that. This is the same base I was going to work on a year ago two years ago. Anyway I’m not doing nothing fancy with the wiring and add more pots. I’m just going to wire it up just like a PJ or a Jazz bass. With a blend pot in the middle. I’m using 100k for the environment zone with a 15 microfarad capacitor and a MN250k blend pot. I’m giving it to my brother for his birthday which was a couple weeks ago. I still got my blonde fretless. Which is going to stay a p-bass. With four different knobs or potentiometers. Building me a onboard distortion switch. With the G&l ptb circuit. I got a 250k push pull for my distortion switch a 100k pot for the master volume at 250k pot with a 470 microfarad capacitor for the trouble cut, and a one Meg pot with a 1000 microfarad capacitor for the base cut.
This is my piece together bridge for my brother’s fretless. I just wish I had gold set screws.
Now I just got to get her all wired up in it together. Both of my fretless’ are going to have Guyker tuners, I’ve got the Schaller style tuners for my fretless. Basically the same thing to put on a t40. Except having two little marking pins. In the front of the Schaller tuners. The Guyker tuners have two different screws. Well anyway man I’m out of here I got to go finish doing what I was doing I just stopped check my messages.
I definitely appreciate your comment. Thank you very much for that and gave me ambition to finish up today,
