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Badass black basses!

#61
Bruce Johnson said:
Yes, I make all my own pickups from scratch for my basses. That particular model has two pickups. The forward pickup is four long oval coils, one for each string. They are alternating magnets and windings, so that they form a full humbucking set. The other pickup is a full mechanical percussive pickup, down in the body, under the bridge. The bridge is mounted on a spring suspension frame, so it twitches and rolls like the bridge on an upright. A pair of magnetic coils detect that motion and provide a detailed percussive pulse tone. Much better than you can get with piezos.

There are three output jacks. One is the Normal output, with Volume, Tone, and Blend of the two pickups, all passive. The other two are direct out from the two pickups. Plugging into either of them disconnects that pickup from the Normal circuit. In the studio, you can run two cords from the Direct Outs to two channels on the board, and simultaneously record the two pickups isolated from each other. Then you can mix the warm magnetic tone and the percussive tone as you please during mixdown. That's what they are for. A few of my customers have used the direct outs to go to different amps on stage, too.
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Sounds amazing - would love to hear/play it
 
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#66
JIO said:
Cindy Lauper paint job? - I seriously considered buying a MM HD but realized it was just too big to lug around. I love the concept otherwise.
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Yeah, it's a holoflash finish but my wife calls it the Lauper bass because of all the bright colors. As for the HD150 - best amp for a lot of the stuff I'm doing right now. Unlike my SVT, I can crank up the gain at reasonable volumes to get some sweet tube saturation.
 
#68
friendlybass said:
Woah dude extra short scale
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Yep, all of mine are. After playing guitar for 50 years and often told to take up the bass, I finally did after playing the ukulele the last 18 months and learning of all the sub-scale basses out there. Once I did and read some posts here on TB, I decided to convert one myself. Very happy with it.
 

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