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Most pickups on a bass. the low down.
- Thread starter MrHyde
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And if you tweek everything just right it will sound almost as good as a P-Bass................................
Awesome. Thanks for the advice. Should I contact audere? Should I think about a passive switch?
Doesn't bootsy have another with a load of P style pickups?
Oh yeah about the 9 pickups, not that I'm jumpin on the band waggon, but it sounds to me like the sience is against it. However that doesn't stop me wishing the guy the best of luck. Its more than I've ever done and would like to see the pics when he's ready
Sounds like a lot of fun. Loads of pickups! but it also sounds like excess for the sake of excess, pointless as a hot dog eating competition
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Oh yeah about the 9 pickups, not that I'm jumpin on the band waggon, but it sounds to me like the sience is against it. However that doesn't stop me wishing the guy the best of luck. Its more than I've ever done and would like to see the pics when he's ready
Sounds like a lot of fun. Loads of pickups! but it also sounds like excess for the sake of excess, pointless as a hot dog eating competition
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Put nine output jacks on the bass too, because I know of a lot of folks (mostly in the prog scene) who wish there was some way for them to set up a nonaphonic rig.
I believe he said 3 humbuckers in the body and 6 built into the fretless fingerboard.
On a related note, where's the pic of that crazy F Bass control cavity.
How about a "who has the most wires in their control cavity" contest as well?
Maybe I should follow my own advice and read carefully...
I think current technology is 7.1 surround, you better do 9 if you want to get a patent.
Personally, I think it's a silly idea.
However, I would imagine there were many, many people that thought Leo Fender was full of silly ideas.
However, I would imagine there were many, many people that thought Leo Fender was full of silly ideas.
Yes yes, we need pics. Without them, this thread will venture ever deeper into the abyss of sarcasm and smart alecktry.
And if you tweek everything just right it will sound almost as good as a P-Bass................................
also a very witty comment.
+10
most I've ever seen.
and I thought my idea was absurb. two jazz pickups with a piezo bridge
you never seen the bass luthier lowenbrauw (writing?). There's like 16 pickups in his basses. Stanley Clark is one of their endorsee
Ha, I built a bass made completely out of pickups, INCLUDING the back of the bass. But those pickups were facing inward and the outside of the back was layered with a spray-on rubber coating. This is because I made special "active" strings that ACTUALLY ARE PICKUPS themselves. I powered mine straight from the household 110v AC, via a pair of grounded cables with an adaptor at the end that fits in your standard double 3-prong wall outlet. The other end plugs into two sockets on the bass-- one next to the instrument cable jack (for the bass body pickups) and one into the bottom of the bridge (which is also a pickup) for the "active" powered strings. Oh yeah, there are 5 parametric EQs onboard (and yes, they all have pickups in them themselves), illuminated VU meters along the side of the body so you can constantly monitor the power distribution throughout the bass, three slider controls (with built-in pickups) for (1) overall volume, (2) spread/pattern (a little like 'Q' on a parametric equalizer) which determines how wide of an spread of pickups you want powered from headstock to piezo-tailpiece (which has its own balanced quadrophonic output, BTW, and is connected to the six piezo tuning machines in the headstock) with a multi-level push-pull feature to select different patterns of pickup selection (3) central location of the spread/pattern (when spread/pattern is full open, this slider does nothing because the whole bass is powered). There's also a 5-switch off-on bank to select which zones of the bass you want powered. The frets and fret markers are all illuminatable multichromatic LEDs that are controlled by a multi-feature remote (with full QWERTY keypad) that you can clip on to your strap. With this feature, you can have a scrolling digital marquee (like the Goodyear blimp!) on the neck of the bass.
You need to wear a rubber suit while playing this beast, lest you electrocute yourself. But such is a small sacrifice in the pursuit of GREAT TONE! And you should see the pyrotechnics that ensue should you play while standing in a Farraday cage...
P.S. I don't have any pics yet because the EMP generated when I plugged this thing in for the first time fried my digital camera.
Thats an interesting thought. I never thought you could technically record each pickup into a different channel like that. To do that though youd really need to have like 7 of the same pickups, then something wierder and dubby to pick up the .1. They do have 9.1 systems but i think its overkill. This idea does intrigue me though.
funkybassplayer
Commercial User
Just to clarify, it's Loewenherz. Below are pics of a 12 (ebony) and 6 (maple) PUP instruments. The 12 PUP one is one of my favorite that i have seen in a while. I think it is interesting how all of the PUPs were integrated into one large finger ramp. All of the PUPs have thier own on/off switch. I htink these are pretty cool basses. I am sure that they are WAY out of my range but they do have a lot of PUPs and i think that was the point of this thread.
Funny you bring this one up. I heard that only four of the pickups on that bass are actually operational. Phase cancellation and wiring issues made it too difficult to run all six, I believe.
Not quite as many as the OP had described but i htink this one is pretty damn cool. I guess Derek Smalls has one up on Bootsy.
It's awesome nonetheless
, but makes me doubt the feasibility of the OP's design.
Rickett Customs
Commercial User
Wait, I did a rendering of the suspects bass, I looks like this:
Complete with 9-band eq, and 50-way rotary pup selector
Complete with 9-band eq, and 50-way rotary pup selector
so did I
you can see the guitar WAAAAAAAAY out there in the back. right where the black hole begins.
Just to clarify, it's Loewenherz. Below are pics of a 12 (ebony) and 6 (maple) PUP instruments. The 12 PUP one is one of my favorite that i have seen in a while. I think it is interesting how all of the PUPs were integrated into one large finger ramp. All of the PUPs have thier own on/off switch. I htink these are pretty cool basses. I am sure that they are WAY out of my range but they do have a lot of PUPs and i think that was the point of this thread.
May I ask what the heck is with that bridge?
