Searcy String Works #4 Fender Geddy Lee Jazz Bass Pickup

[gtc77]

I cant believe a $1000 Geddy Lee bass came screwed up from the factory what was it built on a friday?

[biggstile]

Thanks for the education. So, could I use a large ceramic bass speaker magnet instead of a neodymium to reverse alnico magnet polarity, and if so, can I do one side at a time, since I don't have a jig like that cool one of yours? I'd like to hear your neo pickups, and have you show a comparison between them and a vintage sounding bass, too. I'm torn on vintage or modern sound, sometimes, since they both have their merits and drawbacks.

[Epilepi]

Hi,

thanks for the video. It helped me in changing the polarity on my jazz bass PU.

[njdenis1]

great video

[alwaysopen]

What polarization would be appropriate for use with a J/P-bass pup combo?

[SearcySW]

It shouldn't really matter on a P/J set up. The P bass pickup has both north and south poles because it's a humbucker.

[alwaysopen]

Yeah, but the j-pup still wants to hum .

I'll find out from a buddy of mine and post back.

[SearcySW]

Single coil Jazz Bass pickups always want to hum by them selves. To cure that you'll need a stacked of side by side humbucking jazz bass pickup.

[Kingofyerass666]

@alwaysopen

you should get a humbucker p bass pickup with a humbucker stack jazz = same output for both pickups.

if you get a single coil jazz, you'll lose tone.

[alwaysopen]

@Kingofyerass666

P-bass pups are aready HB. I need to find a dual rail J-bass HB pup for my needs. The stacked models don't do it for me. I have gone that route before with guitars as well and they are dead when compared to the single coil.

[lowfreq65]

whats the background music?................is it fallout boy?

[SearcySW]

Nope the song is New World Man by Rush.

[crimsondrifter01]

I really like your video, i think it's a great thing to have here on YouTube for people who like to learn how to be able to fix their own instruments without having to remember if they're under warranty or not.

I only have one pretty quick question, where did you get the neodymium magnets that you use in your magnetizer and if i were to make one of my own, do the magnets only have to be far enough apart from one another to be able to slide a pickup through it?

[snimrod6]

nice and smart !!!

[BrutalEpicMetal]

This helped me a lot. But there's another thing I want to know a few things. 1 where do you get that magnet tool you used, 2 are all pickups magnets, 3 what are battery pickups, and 4 how do you know if a pickup is bad?

Sorry that I have a lot of questions I'm about to learn bass, I'm getting one soon it's a 5 string schecter hellraiser, and over the summer I'm getting lessons.

[SearcySW]

1.The magnetizer I made, the pole tester I got from Stew Mac. The compass I from Bass ProShop.

2.All magnetic pickups use magnets and magnet wire. Piezo pickups like on a acoustic do not use magnets.

3. When you see a bass with batteries in it that is because it has an active preamp circuit in it shapes the tone of the pickup before it leaves the bass. The preamp can be built into the back of the pickup like an EMG.

4.For more information on bad pickups see my other videos.

[BrutalEpicMetal]

Okay, that helped a lot thanks. :)

[danielcarrionjr]

i have a question do you provide info on how to fixs a pick up on an electric guitar???

[SearcySW]

Sure, check my other videos. I'll add more when I get the chance. What did you want to know?

[danielcarrionjr]

my pick up needs wiring but i dont know how to wire.. i dont have any body to help.

[immask8er94]

mmmmk please help me i really am confused i need to know what i pickup part on a bass is any bass really

[SearcySW]

Im not 100% sure I understand your question. I think you are asking what a pickup is on a bass. A pickup is usually a magnet surrounded by wire. It converts the energy from string vibrations into an electrical signal. Its like a microphone for strings. They are located under the strings and are mostly rectangular in shape and usually black, chrome or wood covered.

[86108610]

wtf is 'soddering'

[SearcySW]

Thanks for checking out my work 86108610.

I think you mean 'Soldering'. Soldering is a group of processes that join metals by heating them to a suitable temperature below the solidus of the base metals and applying a filler metal having a liquidus not exceeding 450 °C (840 °F). Molten filler metal is distributed between the closely fitted surfaces of the joint by capillary action.

[jordanzed]

Basically attaching wires and electronic components with solder, which is thin metal that you melt around the contacts of the parts or wires.

[infernalgr]

Great work Clint. My "compass" is pointing at your workshop ;-)

[JackoMBA]

You learn something new every day. That's great stuff. I have to take out my compass.