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SGD, Legacy Pickups (Lane Poor), or Delano?

Musicman_00

Musicman_00

Jul 14, 2007
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working on building my first bass and looking for transparent pickups. Done some homework and narrowed it down to these 3 brand. Does anyone have any experience with any of these pickups? Gospel is my primary genre however that at time can take you a lot of different ways. Open to suggestions ans far as active preamps also. No Bartolini or EMG's. Been there done that. Not interested.

And the floor is open!!!!
 
#3
kb9wyz said:
I love my Audere preamp. LOVE it. I don't know what your issue with EMG or Bartolini is. I have had only good experiences with those, myself.
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Audere not a bad choice. Issue with Bartolini's, they sound like Bartolini's, I don't want to make my bass sound like a "Bartolini" Bass I want to hear the wood. Barts aren't transparent IMO. EMG's are ok just not my "Cup o' tea"
 
#4
SGDs. I've heard nothing but good things about neo pickups. Very clear and full-range sound. They do tend to be a bit brighter than your usual Alnico pickup though. Q-tuners are nice too, and pretty cool looking, but I don't know if they're still around. If you have questions, the owner of SGD posts here often.
 
#6
Villex makes their "classic" series of humbucking pickups (which are actually split-coil models) that sound excellent. They have a very strong and natural fundamental, especially in the bridge position. The midrange is excellent. These will bring out the tones of the wood.

Delano "SBC" humbuckers are nice, and have a nice refined sound of a Bartolini "classic bass" humbucker but with more clarity. But Delano can do even better: their "HE" quad-coil series of Music Man pickups are even more clear and transparent when you split them, and get closer to a wide aperture "single-coil-like" tone. If you need these to be split up into two pickups in soapbar shells, they can probably make them custom for you. (They did one for me, and I love it.) Think of the Villex tone that I described earlier, and turn up the treble clarity just a bit.

SGD "S4" sidewinder pickups combine many of the best aspects of the Villex "classic" pickups as well as the Lane Poor wide aperture and narrow aperture soapbars, but with slightly higher output. They are a very versatile pickup with a complex, usable midrange that sounds very balanced. SGD Neo "ND3" pickups are great too, but not quite as transparent as the sidewinders.
 
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Musicman_00 said:
Audere not a bad choice. Issue with Bartolini's, they sound like Bartolini's, I don't want to make my bass sound like a "Bartolini" Bass I want to hear the wood. Barts aren't transparent IMO. EMG's are ok just not my "Cup o' tea"
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Sorry. I was speaking about the preamps Bart and EMG make more than the pups. I'm a fan of the pups, myself, but not for every application. My SR benefits from the Barts. By Jazz would most definitely not.
 
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Musicman_00 said:
Audere not a bad choice. Issue with Bartolini's, they sound like Bartolini's, I don't want to make my bass sound like a "Bartolini" Bass I want to hear the wood. Barts aren't transparent IMO. EMG's are ok just not my "Cup o' tea"
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I dont know what you mean by "hear the wood", but in the few pickups that I have tried, one sticks out as " bringing out the natural acoustic quality of the bass", and that is AERO, bar none. You might not need a premap.

Other brands used were Bart, Nord, SD, Lakland.

Aeros are entirely custom, so dont expect "off the shelf" pricing. Yet , if reproducing the natural sound of your bass is what you seek, the BUCK stops at AERO.


www.aeroinstrument.com
 
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BuffaloBass said:
I dont know what you mean by "hear the wood", but in the few pickups that I have tried, one sticks out as " bringing out the natural acoustic quality of the bass", and that is AERO, bar none. You might not need a premap.

Other brands used were Bart, Nord, SD, Lakland.

Aeros are entirely custom, so dont expect "off the shelf" pricing. Yet , if reproducing the natural sound of your bass is what you seek, the BUCK stops at AERO.


www.aeroinstrument.com
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"hear the wood" means the acoustic qualities of the bass. i.e. Walnut has a different tone than alder, etc. etc.
 

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