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03-02-2013, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Summerville, GA | | | Pickup Placement
Now, before answering this, keep in mind that I'm a total newbie when it comes to the electronics of a bass guitar and how they work.
My question is simple: What if someone were to make a bass guitar, but instead of the standard jazz pickup layout, they were to turn the pickups 90 degrees, so that each string had it's own pickup, running lengthwise with the bass? How would this sound? Would it even work? |
03-02-2013, 09:52 PM
| | | | so 6 jazz bass pups , one for each string? I think its unnecessary...what you want to achieve with that?
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03-03-2013, 12:15 AM
|  | Registered muser | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: US-NY-NYC | | | It has sort of been done. There's a patent on a pickup with a long coil along the axis of the string, and polepieces slidable within the coil to change the tone.
Using a standard J pup, I'd expect ... probably muddy, due to picking up such a great length of string, and the upper partials from different regions canceling each other out. Plus, with the full magnet with eight polepieces on the string, you'd have to put the the pup set pretty low in order to not have the magnet draw the string and give you chocked harmonics.
But it you try it out, maybe on one string of an existing bass, let us know what you find!
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03-03-2013, 03:19 AM
|  | Progressive bass brony | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Zagreb, Croatia | | | pilotjones, you've got it right about the tone of the thing. Do you know which patent no. is the one with slidable polepieces?
Italia had a series of basses like these, I think they were called the Modulo series. It had four lipstick pickups along the length of the strings, one for each string. No idea how it sounded, but apparently, it worked.
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03-03-2013, 03:47 AM
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03-03-2013, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Stealth pilotjones, you've got it right about the tone of the thing. Do you know which patent no. is the one with slidable polepieces?
Italia had a series of basses like these, I think they were called the Modulo series. It had four lipstick pickups along the length of the strings, one for each string. No idea how it sounded, but apparently, it worked. | Adjustable slot pickup http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/4,869,144
Also, I think Gittler's patent includes a long axial pickup http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...&RS=PN/4079652
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