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11-22-2008, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | pickups for Dub reggae (deep)
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i don't really,know much about pickups. but i think j pickups sounds thinner, mm sounds thicker, p = i'm not rly sure.
Right now i have a schector custom-5 strings. With EMG HZ pickups
It sounds quite bright unless i finger around 22nd-24th fret. which gives me the sound i want but the sound isn't solid enough like when you play at the bridge. 
what pickups can i choose from? and how will they sound?
i'm so confused |
11-22-2008, 02:43 PM
| | | | you could switch to flatwound strings...a much cheaper alternative that will give you the deep tone you like. Also you could just use the EQ knobs on your bass to turn off all the treble. You could also set your pickup selector (if there is one on your bass) to favor the pickup closer to the neck, which will give you the deep sound. reggae players tend to play softer too to get a smoother tone, many of the guys who played on those original reggae recordings never changed their strings either. combine all this stuff and you'll get to keep the your bass and all the money in your wallet you would've spent on those pickups, tone is in the hands my friend |
11-22-2008, 03:09 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Norfolk, Massachusetts | | | yea i agree with Sal!
you could use flats. that would probably be the first thing i would try and change, your STRINGS!
see if flats help out
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11-22-2008, 03:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New York City | | | Nice bass, leave it as is for now - listen to sal. Favor neck pickup, cut highs, boost lows, switch to some flat wounds. I'll add try a compressor to tighten up the tone. I read somewhere that Family Man from the Wailers band maxes out the compressor knob on his Eden Navigator pre, so maybe there's something to that... He plays softly up by the fingerboard on his jazz bass.
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11-23-2008, 03:56 AM
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Originally Posted by sal87  you could switch to flatwound strings...a much cheaper alternative that will give you the deep tone you like. Also you could just use the EQ knobs on your bass to turn off all the treble. You could also set your pickup selector (if there is one on your bass) to favor the pickup closer to the neck, which will give you the deep sound. reggae players tend to play softer too to get a smoother tone, many of the guys who played on those original reggae recordings never changed their strings either. combine all this stuff and you'll get to keep the your bass and all the money in your wallet you would've spent on those pickups, tone is in the hands my friend | I've watched the gear and sound check of a reggae bass player (Black Uhuru 1989). He played a Hohner Steinberger headless bass with roundwound strings over a big Ampeg tube amp. The tone of his bass was turned low, the volume open. The volume of the amplifier was huge with the treble tone turned low and the bass tone turned well to the right. The bass volume was adjusted to the drum volume, after that the other instruments adjusted their volume to light punches of the bass player. His volume was completely dominant but he played the bass lightly. Other reggae bass players that i saw had their bass and amp adjusted in a similar way.
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11-23-2008, 01:52 PM
|  | David Schwab
Owner, SGD Music Products | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Bloomfield, NJ | | | It's not the pickups, it's how you set your tone. Just turn the tone controls down to zero it it's passive, if it's an active bass, crank the bass and turn the treble off.
Crank the bass on the amp, turn the treble down, and probably the mids too, and use the neck pickup.
I can go from Stanley bright to dub just changing the tone controls on by bass, and using the neck pickup.
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11-28-2008, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by meegosh | Dean Markley flats are bassier sounding and are bassy even for flats (a bit dead sounding most people would say) whereas chromes are quite bright sounding for flatwounds , the chromes are generally more favoured than the dean markleys (more people seem to use them)
Light , Medium etc is the gauge of the strings, medium will feel more tense than light gauge but will sound slightly fuller, I would go with the light gauge.
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11-29-2008, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by meegosh thx again. i really hate my emg hz pickups btw |
I had this bass for some time and hated the electronics too. the slightest tweak of the high's and the thing would hiss like crazy. I have a pair of Kent Armstrong humbuckers in my five now, and I love the things. They sound smooth and with the bass boosted I can shake the neighbors house. If I run them flat they allow my bass to sound very very organic, but I like that. I think you might dig them too.
that being said I swapped the pre in a six string that still has EMG HZ pickups and great god almighty they came alive. I hated them with the EMG preamp, but with an Audere they are just awesome. So maybe you would benefit from a new pre before the pickups. But I am no expert here by any means
If you are ordering LaBella's, might I suggest www.juststrings.com. they tend to be a great price and very quick shipping.
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