Some of our many customers have sent pictures of their Classic Amplification gear,
here you can see, and read some feedback from them...
The Neck pickup tone Shawn was looking for was a neck wound just a little hot
"I Like a deep smokey smooth low end hotter thang with even poles"
The Bridge pickup tone Shawn was looking for that Chris Squire (song: "America") and Geddy Lee (when he used his Rick) tone.
"I Like a nice growly, trebly bridge pickup that will overdrive smoothly"
I wound these two pickups for Shawn's Rickenbacker® 4001 and 4003 basses.
(from Shawn's email)... THOSE PICKUPS SOUND F'N GREAT!! DAMN! YUR GOOD!! Yur bridge combined with my 11K toaster on my 76' 4001 is PERFECT! The neck PU you made is warmer than the new Ricky B'S goes nice with the stock bridge on my 03' 4003. It is a growly, bright, warm sparkle, you did it! The bridge sounds like an original ricky, but a little better cause of the higher output, but it really has that Geddy Lee vibe, I call it "GWARBLE" growly sparkle goodness! DUDE YOU ARE GOOD! I LOVE UM!
The bridge pickup went into the '76 4001...
The neck pickup went into the '03 4003...
and here they are relaxing before the show...
Thanks very much for the kind words Shawn, keep rockin those Ricks.
Geir has a beautiful Ric, he installed one of my RB74B with a ~9k wind, black staggered poles in his lefty:
(from Geir's email)...
Really nice high quality work, looks good, sounds great... I like the look of your vintage pickups."
Jeff built this very cool fretless bass, a semi-hollow Poplar body with removable hard-rock maple neck:
Jeff wanted to incorporate a definate Rick vibe into this instrument and comissioned me to built him some custom Rick-T style pickups. The middle pickup is the traditional 6-pole Alnico style pickup, the neck and bridge are custom-hybrid's, a merging of the Rick-T and Button Top pickups under traditional covers.
A sharp eye might notice the pickup covers/backplates are attached using what is normally the (center) mounting screw holes, this was done because Jeff's build-plan detailed attaching the pickups directly to a recess in the wood using lengths of rubber surgical tubing as springs for those four corner screw locations, seen more closely here:
(from Jeff's email)...
WOW is about all I can say - I can go from clean, crisp and whimsy to dark, muffed and heavy and all points in between - all your pups have plenty of output... freaking amazing Brad, you out did yourself. They are much more than I expected - I am completely satisfied. Thanks again for the AWESOME pickups... -Jeff
Jeff's has some sound clips:
(Jeff) ...Rush is on the left channel my bass is on the right channel, use your balance to hear my bass better. This is raw input, no floor toys, the cable is hooked directly from the bass to the microphone jack of the computer. Both tone pots are barely open, both volume pots about midway. The middle pickup is grouped in series to the bridge pickup for almost a wha like tone. I'm playing over the bridge pickup and I used one of my wife's cute hair scrunchies one the neck about midway between open and the first fret position to muff the sustain down. It's got a fretless vibe going on maaa...wha.
(Jeff) ...CCR is on the left channel my bass is on the right channel, use your balance to hear my bass better. This is also raw input, no floor toys, the cable is hooked directly from the bass to the microphone jack of the computer. Middle pickup is off, neck pickup tone pot set to about 3/4 open, neck volume pot is about 1/2 way open and the bridge pickup tone pot is barely open, the bridge volume is about 1/2 way open. I attempted to duplicate the vintage P-Bass tone with the exception that Stu Cook is playing a fretted P-Bass with round wound strings and I'm on a fretless with flat wound strings. I tried to keep the Mah...Wah to a minimum by playing supper soft over the middle pickup, but it's just the nature of the fretless beast some Maaa...wha did escape, not much sense in trying to fight it.
Jeff's website is here MillsCustomSawing.com
Jeff's email
Raimo purchased one of our drop-in Vibe-BabyTM boards, he installed it into a refinishd wah-shell and added some support components.
(from Raimo's email)... Please find enclosed pics from my VibeBaby. I have a blue led for effect-on indication as the microswitch is 3PDT, the led, zener and resistor are on breadboard (and relay board) are still in the planning phase. I managed to get full travel of the speed pot with some metal work in the old wah case and I used a microswitch for true bypass. The shell is actually an old crybaby I got with no electronics and bottom plate. I decided to paint it purple (metallic lacquer on top), had the top chromed, add a custom rubber and cut a copper bottom plate. (yes, it looks like a BuddaWah) Your fine sounding vibe unit deserves the very best. /Raimo
Thank you for the pictures and feedback Raimo, enjoy playing your Vibe-babyTM, and keep on Vibe'n!
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