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Double Bass Krivo vs Bieselle magnetic pickups

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Chris Fitzgerald said:
@John Chambliss I would love to see the new design and how they overcome that! I don't think I would ever need a Krivo for my acoustic basses, but i could see it being useful for the travel bass.
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Would you like to talk about the issue you have on your travel bass?

I have MK studio EUB. There is nothing wrong when I play bottom note. However when I play go higher notes(especially when I play solo) ,the sound gets quieter and get lost. It doesn’t happens to my double bass with lifeline.

I thought I’m going to try an EUB with acoustic chamber but if you have same issue on your travel bass,I would reconsider.

Thanks!
 
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Either string, vibrating fingerboard (not rigid enough) or single element pickup.

I had the same problem with my Clevinger 5-string. I was not happy with the pickup that was mounted (piezo disk under the low side foot and piezo between the two highest strings in the bridge crown), so I made my own below both bridge feet. Both got individual impedance buffers and the outputs got a balance control.
Had a similar problem with my 5-string DB when the soundpost was too close to the bridge foot.

I once had a Schaller magnetic pickup. The notes down the fingerboard got louder because the stopped strings there get closer to the coil. But not in a nice way.
You also need steel core strings for a magnetic pickup.
 
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kento said:
Would you like to talk about the issue you have on your travel bass?

I have MK studio EUB. There is nothing wrong when I play bottom note. However when I play go higher notes(especially when I play solo) ,the sound gets quieter and get lost. It doesn’t happens to my double bass with lifeline.

I thought I’m going to try an EUB with acoustic chamber but if you have same issue on your travel bass,I would reconsider.

Thanks!
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It’s kind of hard to describe. It just sounds better acoustically than it does amplified. The amplified bass response is fine, but n the top string the amplified sound doesn’t have the same kind of heft as the others. I think that what it comes down to is that I simply prefer playing a real double bass. At this point I use the travel bass for taking on vacations so I can play to keep my chops and calluses up because my wife is kind enough to allow me to do that and because it takes up way less space in the car. But when I travel, I would rather either take or borrow a real bass.
 
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Chris Fitzgerald said:
It’s kind of hard to describe. It just sounds better acoustically than it does amplified. The amplified bass response is fine, but n the top string the amplified sound doesn’t have the same kind of heft as the others. I think that what it comes down to is that I simply prefer playing a real double bass. At this point I use the travel bass for taking on vacations so I can play to keep my chops and calluses up because my wife is kind enough to allow me to do that and because it takes up way less space in the car. But when I travel, I would rather either take or borrow a real bass.
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Thank you so much for your responses!

It seems the issue you have on your travel bass is similar to mine. I thought I could solve this problem if I get the EUB with acoustic chamber but now I know it is not that easy!
 

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