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 Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:29 pm
Is there much advantage changing pickups. Is it worth it on my squier p-bass. Also, is it easy changing pick-guard or should i just get the music store guy to do it?
Thanks in advance.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:55 am
Changing the pickups is something that will change the sound of your bass. Be it whether or not you want your sound to come out more clean, deep, ect. Just depends on what type of sound your after and what pickups you've been looking around at.
As far as the pick-guard goes, that just takes a few screws to unscrew and rescrew. Very simple. As long as you can retune your stings yourself, you should be A-OK to change the pickguard yourself.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:13 pm
Kyrenx Changing the pickups is something that will change the sound of your bass. Be it whether or not you want your sound to come out more clean, deep, ect. Just depends on what type of sound your after and what pickups you've been looking around at.
As far as the pick-guard goes, that just takes a few screws to unscrew and rescrew. Very simple. As long as you can retune your stings yourself, you should be A-OK to change the pickguard yourself. Depending on what pickguard you buy and where you buy it from, you may have to modify it a tad, just keep some heavy duty sand paper handy. As for pickups, just make sure you don't get active pickups for your passive bass or vice-versa, they won't work without a powered preamp. And you'll need a soldering iron.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:14 pm
I really would not recommend anyone to change their own pickups unless they know what theyre doing or in a bit of an experimental mood. If your just after changing your sound, then i'd say just have the guitar repair guy do it for you.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:08 pm
ya changing a pickup is a little more complicated than changing a pick guard lol. but i recomend watching a professional do it and learn from them and try it yourself one day.
the pickguard thing, if its just a normal squire p-bass or Jazz bass then you should be able to just jit it on (on a P-bass you'll have to take off the knobz but thats it)
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:12 am
thanks for all the advice guys, it helped alot.
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:14 pm
shitty pick ups will sound like s**t xp the sound is all in your fingers for the most part... 2 people can play the same bass and have it sound completely different... my suggestion on your squier.. instead of wasting money on new pickups... save up and get a new bass
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:09 am
I deffinatly need to get my pick ups changed. There old and shitty and that is defffinatly not a good combo.
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