Pickup with most Tuba like sound?

[asberrys]

okay is Tuba the paragon of Bass excellence? Fluid lines free of attack. What pickup,then,would give this sound?

I am going to say a P-pup. Any other ideas?

 

[Rockman]

okay is Tuba the paragon of Bass excellence? Fluid lines free of attack. What pickup,then,would give this sound?

I am going to say a P-pup. Any other ideas?

Yeah, not a p-pickup. Of course it doesn't matter because if you are playing your bass in the traditional way then theres no way you could get the same kind of sound as a tuba. Plus why would you want to, just play tuba!

 

[SGD Lutherie]

I was a tubist for many years. Tubas have attack. Like any instrument, it depends on how you play them.

I would think that closest, for that farty sound, would be a Gibson mudbucker.

Or any pickups and a lot of compression. That's one of my favorite sounds.

 

[somegeezer]

Yeah, you want a tuba, then play tuba... This is a bass forum. Bass guitar and upright bass. Tuba isn't even in the same family as either of them.

 

[Jones_Stuff]

I was a tubist for many years. Tubas have attack. Like any instrument, it depends on how you play them.

I would think that closest, for that farty sound, would be a Gibson mudbucker.

Or any pickups and a lot of compression. That's one of my favorite sounds.

This, you could try and get an Epiphone eb-0 one if your wallet is a bit tight.

 

[williamk]

This, you could try and get an Epiphone eb-0 one if your wallet is a bit tight.

epiphone eb-o sounds like s***, I say get a tuba.

 

[giacomini]

Yeah, you want a tuba, then play tuba... This is a bass forum. Bass guitar and upright bass. Tuba isn't even in the same family as either of them.

Yes, this is a bass forum, and your's a troll post.

 

[archer121]

Could you put up a sound-clip or a link to the sort of sound you're going for? I'm having a hard time imagining what a tuba-like sound would be on a bass.

 

[Jim Nazium]

My first thought was not about pickups, but playing technique. Pluck the strings close to the neck and use the pad, not the tip, of your finger. That will produce a very soft attack.

 

[archer121]

My first thought was not about pickups, but playing technique. Pluck the strings close to the neck and use the pad, not the tip, of your finger. That will produce a very soft attack.

That would produce a more subdued attack but would it generate the sort of fartty-buzzy sound (that's the best way I can can describe it) of a tuba?

 

[jworrellbass]

The "tuba" sound reminds me of those late 60"s live LP's, where the bassist cranks up the mids and highs to get more volume from his rig..lol..

 

[SGD Lutherie]

Tuba isn't even in the same family as either of them.

Sure it is. It's a bass range instrument. Some of them go below the range of a bass guitar.

 

[fr35h]

Yeah, you want a tuba, then play tuba... This is a bass forum. Bass guitar and upright bass. Tuba isn't even in the same family as either of them.

Sorry dude, but tuba is a bass instrument. They serve the same function in music; I'd classify it as being in the bass family, along with bass clarinet, bassoon, bari sax, some people's voices, upright and electric bass, etc.

 

[asberrys]

A bass guitar shouldn't imitate Brass or Winds(double entendre)?
No one told Jeff Beck or HOldsworth their guitar wasn't to imitate a trumpet or sax evidentally eh?
Bon repartee...vrai?

 

[Fetusyolk]

i think the best course of action would be to use something MIDI related

 

[iiipopes]

I also play tuba. A few years ago in a blues band I used to be in, we recorded a track with tuba, and when we went to play live, I wasn't going to drag along a tuba just for one number. My custom fanned fret P-style bass with alder body and rosewood fingerboard has a DiMarzio Ultra-Jazz bridge pickup in the standard J bass bridge position. I would use that pickup, roll off the treble somewhat, depending on how much wear was on the strings, and use the meaty part of my finger so the string more rolled off my finger than using a traditional side or edge of the finger attack. That got me more of the "burp" attack that tubas have.

 

[Rano Bass]

My custom fanned fret P-style bass with alder body and rosewood fingerboard has a DiMarzio Ultra-Jazz bridge pickup in the standard J bass bridge position. I would use that pickup, roll off the treble somewhat, depending on how much wear was on the strings, and use the meaty part of my finger so the string more rolled off my finger than using a traditional side or edge of the finger attack. That got me more of the "burp" attack that tubas have.

What he said.
Solo the bridge pickup and roll off some treble, kind like a Jaco sound; very midrangy and staccato.
I use that sound for some "banda" songs

 

[asberrys]

I also play tuba. A few years ago in a blues band I used to be in, we recorded a track with tuba, and when we went to play live, I wasn't going to drag along a tuba just for one number. My custom fanned fret P-style bass with alder body and rosewood fingerboard has a DiMarzio Ultra-Jazz bridge pickup in the standard J bass bridge position. I would use that pickup, roll off the treble somewhat, depending on how much wear was on the strings, and use the meaty part of my finger so the string more rolled off my finger than using a traditional side or edge of the finger attack. That got me more of the "burp" attack that tubas have.

Okay this is interesting. I should have clarified that I want the Tuba sound one hears in say a legato passage,i.e, not the farty,staccato sound necessarily. The sound without an attack so much. That is why I was thinking P-pup.
I do love a Tuba and Euphonium or whatever it is called.
Wasn't Brass the original bass in modern music? Didn't Tuba antedate Upright in contemporary stuff?
Though maybe in Peasant type music they were using String Tub type of bass before Tuba.

 

[jkramer5]

I always thought McCartney played some pretty tuba like and tuba sounding lines. When I'm 64 and Being for the benefit of Mr kite being examples off the top of my head.

If I hadda sound like a tuba with some wood and 4 or 5 strings I'd start with emulating that kind of sound.

 

[Chrisk-K]

I always thought McCartney played some pretty tuba like and tuba sounding lines. When I'm 64 and Being for the benefit of Mr kite being examples off the top of my head.

+1 billion

When I first heard "64" a long long time ago, I thought the bass line was recorded with a tuba.