PLEASE help me choose a Mag pickup to install in my Carvin AC50 piezo bass

[jibreel]

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[walterw]

how would you integrate it into the existing preamp? and what happens after you carve up this nice bass to mount this pickup up by the neck where it will have a tubby, boomy sound, and discover you hate it?

this sounds like a Bad Idea.

[jibreel]

Originally Posted by walterw

how would you integrate it into the existing preamp? and what happens after you carve up this nice bass to mount this pickup up by the neck where it will have a tubby, boomy sound, and discover you hate it?

this sounds like a Bad Idea.

Wow!!! Sounds like YOU had a bad day

Pickup location will be very near the location of the north pickup on a jazz bass.

Stereo Jack

This $ 400.00 used bass [ yes it is nice ] is already modded for a pickup.

Bottom line: The request is for suggestions, not criticism of my ongoing, already in the works project.

[walterw]

not at all, it just sounded like an Ugly Solution. but, if it already has the hole for a neck position jazz, then yeah, what the hell.

a dimarzio model j might be a fairly smooth-sounding pickup, and it won't hum.

are you going to mix it downstream from the piezo, or run it into its own amp?

[jibreel]

HI Walter,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Lucky for me, I have an Acoustic Image amp that has two channels. So I will come out of the bass with a stereo cable and use a Y splitter into to the two seperate channels.

The piezo pre has volume/bass/treble and the mag pickup will have an onboard volume and tone.

The adventure continues.

[walterw]

if you did want to get adventurous, bartolini, graph-tech and fishman all make preamps that take both passive piezos and passive magnetics, preamp them and blend them in mono. (some will even let you choose to separate them again depending on what kind of cable you plug into the bass.)

bartolini in particular comes to mind as having a version with all the EQ you have now plus the piezo input buffer.

a bartolini pickup might also be worth looking at, especially if the string spacing isn't "regulation", since it will have a continuous bar magnet instead of poles like the model J.