Shadow sh 965 nfx soundclip

[cigi]

Hello,

I recently bought a shadow sh 965 nfx db pickup and I'm very pleased with it. It has two pickups for under each foot of the bridge and some kind of little pre amp where you can control the volume and tone by using only the pickup under the treble foot of the bridge or the bass foot of the bridge or in between. I personally think this is a very good pickup and that's why I recorded a soundclip with it to spread the love!

http://www.shadow-electronics.com/vi...tml?id=&loc=US

I had it installed on my fully carved hungarian bass of an unkown maker, but it's a pretty good student carved bass. And it sounds pretty good on its own. I plugged my pickup direct into my little mark and I set the amps eq flat. That went direct into my behringer mixingboard an into my creamware luna II soundcard. I recorded with cubase sx and i added no effects or eq'ing.

My playing and drum programming is not the best in the world but I think you'll get an idea of what the nfx can do.

Hope you enjoy it!

http://users.telenet.be/goebezig/shadowsh965midtone.mp3



ps: The volume knob is fully open and the tone knob is in the middle but turned a little bit more to the treble side.

[cigi]

So doesn't anyone have any comments?

Do you like the sound?

Cigi

[Francois Blais]

Looks more like a pub than a review to me.

[cigi]

I never had the intention to make publicity for shadow, and I have no affiliation with the brand what so ever.

I also didn't really mean to review the pickup. I just thought people who were intereseted in the pickup might want to hear it recorded. That's all.

Greetings,

Cigi

[TonyCrenshaw]

I listened to the clip.
The result sounds like Ron Carter on some Play-Alongs.
Not bad.

[Chris Fitzgerald]

It's not a bad sound for a direct from a pickup. In fact, it sounds a lot like the direct out of the full circle on This clip. From what I know of the full circle, I can guess that it would sound better through an speaker than direct into the board. I couldn't get the shadow product page to open on Safari, though, so I can't actually see what the pickup looks like. Is this the "double realist" model with the preamp that clips onto the tailpiece?

[Francois Blais]

This link should work better.

[cigi]

Jep,

That one works better, thanks François.

It is idd the "double realist" with some kind of pre amp.

I'm glad you like it. I posted this files because I really like the pu and I allmost never saw it in the discussions about DB pickups so I thought I'd let you hear that it's a very usable piezo.

It doesn't exactly do what Shadow sais, producing an absolute natural sound, but no piezo does that. What it does, is giving a very usable natural like sound. As natural as i've heard from piezos.

And Chris, it does idd sound beter through an amp and speaker. At big band practice i've had a lot of compliments of bandmembers and the band leader that it sounds allmost like the acoustic sound, but then amplified.

Greetz

[Chris Fitzgerald]

I bet it would sound good mixed with a mic. Is that preamp small enough to mount behind the tailpiece instead of on top? Even without the preamp, I personally find the double realist thing more invasive than the full circle, but for those who would have to have a new bridge cut in order to use the FC, it might be a good option.

[cigi]

I Do'nt think it's possible to mount the pre amp on the back of the strings because it is slightly curbed, like the strings, and it only fits on the front. The pickup isn't usable without the pre amp. Actually its not really even a preamp. It just let you choose the volume and the balance between the two pickups.

[Francois Blais]

Your pic shows Volume and Tone controls, and a watch battery, so that qualifies it as an active preamp I think.