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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:41 pm
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i love the sound of the original 70s strat style pickup but lookin for a little more aggressive sound.is a hot rail good?i play punk/surf rock and its my first fender.Image


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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:41 pm
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Go to www.seymourduncan.com and go under products and you'll see like bass pickups or something and you'll find some replacement from seymour duncan and they all have different reccomendations depending on the style of music you play and what you want from the pick up.


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Those little Musicmaster basses are great, aren't they? I have one and I have to say I love it. Mine is a '74. The actual bass is the same as the early slab body Mustang but with different hardware and scratchplate.

Re pickups, if you are looking for something that will suit it well but with more aggression then consider the Seymour Duncan '51 style single coil precision pickup but in the quarter pounder version. Seymour Duncan describe it as giving an aggressive sound and it certainly can but it can also sound smooth. It will fit in the Musicmaster with very little modification (slightly larger pickup cut-out is needed in the scratchplate but mine needed no modification to the body). Any bass pickup made for a full size bass will be slightly wider than the string spacing on the Musicmaster but with careful placing you will still get plenty of volume from each string.

I had a new pickguard (Mustang type) made by WD (with no pick-up hole so my guitar tech could cut the hole correctly for the '51 pickup) and I managed to get a Mustang style control plate (the control plate for a jazz bass is too big). So now it looks very cool and the metal control plate means that it is gig ready as the Musicmaster pickguards tend to break. Oh, and the sound is awesome with Thomastik strings thorugh my Ashdown. These really are fantastic little basses and the upgrade to the Seymour Duncan pickup has made the instrument much more versatile and was well worth it.

By the way, everyone says that they used Strat pickups for the Musicmaster but I believe most of them used Mustang guitar pickups - that was certainly what was in mine.

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