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Alan Crissey

@alancrissey.com

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Staff Engineer, ex-Mailchimp. Human dog chew toy holder. Divine intervention is unlikely. He / him. Married to @melaniecrissey.com.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 04/10/2026

Bionic Commando hits different.

Screenshot from Bionic Commando’s intro of Generalissimo Killt, giving a speech, looking very Nazi-like.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 31/07/2025

Pickups are soldered and everything but the new capacitor is in. Looks pretty good. Honestly surprised it doesn’t hum, my soldering skills aren’t great.

Mustang bass vintagification mostly complete.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 30/07/2025

I knew there was a chance the new pickups would be too tall to fit in the existing cavity for the pickups. And that turned out to be the case. I wasn’t equipped to properly use a router to expand it, so I used my long dormant woodworking skills to chisel it.

The new pickups installed in the new scratch plate, showing how low they extend.

Using the scratch plate template images off of WD Music, I made a printout of where the two pickup layouts overlapped and drew a rough line where the cavity needed to be deepened.

The extended pickup cavity, after my chiseling.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

Since the pickups didn’t come with covers and I don’t already have the vintage style pickups in my bass, I had to order some. I got these from Curtis Novak.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

For the pickups, I went with Lollar’s Mustang Bass Version A. My understanding is these go for the vintage sound of the older Mustangs but with higher output.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

For drastic modifications, like changing the type of pickups, the pick guard / scratch plate will usually need to be changed, and in a case like this, a custom one is needed. This took a lot of research to make sure everything would fit. I ordered this one from WD Music.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

I’m about to start on a new project, which is a modification to my Fender Mustang PJ bass where I’ll swap out the P pickups for the vintage style split single coil pickups. It’s not very straightforward. I’ll document it along the way because you deserve a variety of content on your timeline.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

There’s a lot to think about here.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 27/02/2025

My new website is gonna be WEIRD yall.

The BIOS setup screen of an old sad 486 computer somewhere.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 10/11/2024

Strange things going on with some wall and musical instrument arrangements, but generally not inaccurate? Piper (my dog) would not be happy with her representation.

ChatGPT generated image of its interpretation of my life.

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