Graphtech Ghost Pickups

[BassJams2112]

Has anyone used these successfully on a bass? Thinking about modifying one of my basses with the 13-pin input jack and installing the piezo bridge saddles. This would be used with a GR-55 after not liking my results with the GK-3B pickup. Thoughts?

Thanks,
James

 

[bholder]

I have several sets for projects, but hate to admit I haven't gotten any of them up and running yet.

 

[BurningSkies]

I've been eyeballing these but trying out how to integrate them well with a traditional preamp & pickups for best effect.

 

[BassJams2112]

I am trying to figure out if they are worth the modification. If the tracking is as good as the video of the guy playing the guitar. Because if it's that good, then I think it will fit my needs really well. Always wanna be sure before you start cutting into a bass...

 

[Dr. Love]

I've used the piezo saddles/acoustic preamp system on guitar mixed with passive pickups and had good results, but never tried them on bass. I didn't go with the midi system, so I have no experience there.

 

[BurningSkies]

I can speak from experience now.

They're a very cool thing and do produce some tone options that you won't get from traditional magnetic pickups...but the cost was fairly extensive in time, effort and money. The ABM hardware needed pretty extensive modification, the Graphtech hardware also got modification. The body of the bass got modification, the wiring diagram for the preamp was not correct & there had to be seat-of-the-pants circuit design to implement the preamp correctly.

 

[crguti]

Wrong room

 

[Kilgore777]

Resurrecting this thread - I have just learned about Ghost PUs for bass and saw this video:



... and was pretty impressed. Anyone had success with these?