Double Bass My pick up (rubish)

[Ric Vice]

I should sell this pick-up?

Bats,
If you can afford something else, it would be a very good investment.

The Fishman BP-100, that you have is a awful sounding pickup IME, I used one for two years and gave up on it. It requires that you use a 10 Meg Ohm Load, to get a decent sound, and the installation of the pickup has you put two clamps on the bridge to mount the piezo discs, which then act just like a mute, interfering with your basses sound production.

The Realist, Realist Life Line, Fishman Full Circle, and even the Underwood, all sound infinitely superior. My pickup of choice is the Ehrlund EAP and Ehrlund Pre Amp, it's equally good playing Arco or Pizzicato, but you'd have to test one on your bass, to make sure it works. Since the Ehrlund is designed and manufactured in Sweden I'd recommend contacting Goran Ehrlund to see if you could arrange a trial of his pickup. He used to offer that option. Invalid Link Removed

The Schertler StatB is also a good option.

Your amp looks to be one of the original Roland Bass Cubes. I owned one, and liked it, for low volume settings it has a decent sound.

Ric

 

[Happy Steve]

Bats, if you opt to buy the FDeck HPF Preamp, you will need to find a friend in the USA to buy it and send it on, or build one from the circuit design (fiddly and time-consuming). Francis cannot export them.

I am sure you have many friends on Talkbass

Steve

 

[Ric5]

I have an pick-up, it sounds like rubish. I don't hear the tone but mostly the contact between my left hand and the string. Killing a cat. It are 2 piëzo-electric on the bridge. It wasn't an expensive one (used) but iTS not good
Something i can do with it?

I would throw it away ...

 

[DoubleMIDI]

Indeed, I haven't looked where you are located. There was a nice helpful guy here on talkbass who would forward an FDeck (for the shipping cost) outside the US. Unfortunately I cannot remember his name.

A relatively cheap and useable pickup is the Shadow SH-965NFX. I has two piezo foils that go between top and bridge foot and has an impedance buffer (but not a highpass filter) built-in. It sounds good with a bow too, but can have a little echoing sound if you listen carefully. Maybe because of the two pickup foils, but you can also only use one of them.

The Underwood, Full Circle, Realists etc. are all passive piezos and need a preamp for your Roland Bass Cube.
So the Shadow NFX is a cheap solution because you don't need a preamp. The battery goes for many hours as long as you disconnect the cable from the battery adapter if you don't play the instrument for a longer time.

 

[bats]

Thans all for the information.