Members Snaggletooth Posted January 3, 2008 Members Share Posted January 3, 2008 I've got an Epiphone Goth Tunderbird wich is gonna get some modifications.I usually plays en Epiphone Eb and uses the mini humbuker (bridge) for overdrive bass-sound and it sounds just the way i want it. The thunderbird dident sound as good at all with the same setup (using the bridge pickup offcourse). Way to "blurry" and lo-frequent.Therefore i changed to a Cimar P-bass single coil I stole from an old crapy bass i've had laying around.This sounded a lot closer to what i wanted but the feedback is completly horrible. It feeds even a little while i'm playing (cheep pickup afterall).It diden't feed so bad in the Cimar so i guess it's somthing with the sustain in the extremly light maghogny wood in the goth thunderbird. I'm gonna buy a proper pickup. What should i go for? I want to pick some from this webshop for practical reasonshttp://www.thomann.de/gb/pickups_for_basses.html(Living in Norway, like I do, mean you get less stuff avilable for more money) Will all singe coils feed in this bass bacouse of the sustain or did I just get a cheap {censored} pickup from the Cimar. They got som nice single coils on that site but they all seem to be high-gain modern pickups (recomended by seymour duncan for metal and such) or Jazz-bass picups (wich realy don't fit the bass because of they're size)Then the've got the H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Death Hands Posted January 3, 2008 Members Share Posted January 3, 2008 Single coils suffer from a 60 cycle hum. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jannda Posted January 4, 2008 Members Share Posted January 4, 2008 Blury distortion? What amp are you using? As far as pickups go I'd stay with a dual coil humbucker Ive never had that problem with my TBIRD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tylytle Posted January 4, 2008 Members Share Posted January 4, 2008 Not sure, i thought those pickups were alright. I am borrowing the blackbird version of it, (nickki sixx) these pup's SUCK! I would change these out if I owned this bass. otherwise a pretty nice bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Snaggletooth Posted January 4, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 4, 2008 Blury distortion? What amp are you using? As far as pickups go I'd stay with a dual coil humbucker Ive never had that problem with my TBIRD. I'm using a guitar stack and its perfect with a standard EB-3 Minihumbucker.the T-Bird sounds different in some way. my overdrive sound is in the Motorhead direction. Actually you can here me playing here: http://www.myspace.com/helldormer "Backline Fever" opens with a bassriff Not sure, i thought those pickups were alright. I am borrowing the blackbird version of it, (nickki sixx) these pup's SUCK! I would change these out if I owned this bass. otherwise a pretty nice bass. The TB pluss pickups are allright for normal bass sounds but i need someething more vintage and "lighter" in sound for overdrive to avoid that muddy stoner fuzz sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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