So what exactly is this? Nordstrand Tone Drop

[BurtMacklinFBI]

It does seem like a self-defeatingly goofy description. I’m not upset about it or any of that kind of drama, but I’m also not at all motivated to consider buying.

 

[RhynoRock]

Personally I let the demo videos do the talking, and I'll be receiving a pair of Big J Blades tomorrow in the mail, to be promptly stuffed into my Warwick shortly thereafter.

 

[sheltjo6]

"...it is the hand that yanks the Thing..."

Do I want this thing-yanking hand on my bass?
Do I need to worry about public obscenity laws?

You would be better off with a tone styler imo.

 

[Jefenator]

I don’t have much use for that tone drop unit - or all the zany descriptions.
Love to try a set of Big Singles, though. And they have some enticing upgrade/makeover options for my P/J 5-string. Good company overall IMHO.

 

[Mvilmany]

Please see Post #7.

LOL

 

[Snaxster]

The Tone Drop

I know this is probably a dumb question givin the clarity of the description, but what does this thing actually do?

"...More specifically, the .047uf allows remnants of the high end to beam through; and if perceived by the player as not so tangible a thing as a direct beam, then perhaps more like memories of the egg days leaking into the mind of an incapacitated dragon doggypaddling the bayou. In the case of the .1uf cap, it is the hand that yanks the Thing just beneath the bright-bound surface...

...we invite you to seek the resonant peak—an ephemeral ridge as vibrational as it is dissipative. Instructions: roll off all caps to enable an understanding between the two, and allow the signal to flow through your rig with only a sliver of viscera painting its fullbodied back. This is the road to the peak."

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

Bro, someone needs to totally message carey about not letting his marketers write descriptions on drugs. Did anybody else read his new single coil pickups description? I forgot what they were, but...dang. it was terrible.

I messaged him

 

[Papazita]

Personally I let the demo videos do the talking, and I'll be receiving a pair of Big J Blades tomorrow in the mail, to be promptly stuffed into my Warwick shortly thereafter.

Every demo I've seen of the BigRig pickups, good god those are nice!

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

I don’t have much use for that tone drop unit - or all the zany descriptions.
Love to try a set of Big Singles, though. And they have some enticing upgrade/makeover options for my P/J 5-string. Good company overall IMHO.

Big singles are great. Best single coils I've ever heard. Everything you'd want out of quarter pounders, but for your modern soapbar bass. More mid forward too, so even better.

 

[Skillet]

Lighten up Francis(s).

 

[invalidprotocol]

Awful marketing. Makes me want to throw up, not buy it.

 

[Tim Skaggs]

If it is just a 250k push-pull pot with two different value capacitors installed, it is ridiculously overpriced. The parts are less than $10.

 

[Joebone]

I LOVE Nordstrand pickups. I have them on two basses, and have had them on others.

IIRC, it's been about two years since the Nordstrand marketing materials took a decided spin toward the Outer Limits. And it's a shame, because they really know what they are doing, but the tounge-in-cheek descriptions are a downer.

EDIT - so I did a quick webcrawl re the effect of capacitors in passive bass controls, and have to note that the Nordstrand capacitor riff does tend toward providing real info - that with tone controls set to zero, higher frequencies are diminished with capacitors having higher values. But dag, you could not easily tease that out from the Nordstrand blurb!

 

[rocu]

Ancestral Repulsion is a good name for a band.

 

[PotsdamBass8]

In defense of the Nordstrand website, they are on the more thorough side of information for each of their pickups. For each model they have dimensions, tone ratings from 1-10, and demonstration videos. I don’t really care that they have a silly description of each product, I walk away from their website with plenty of info about what they’re selling. They’re also super easy to work with and a top notch company.

 

[Tekkers]

They make killer pickups and I’ll second that they’re great to deal with directly - couldn’t be more good-natured and helpful.

But their descriptions seem to be getting more and more incomprehensible. Some of the older pickup descriptions are quite good at painting a picture of how they might sound, but the ratio of adjectives to information in the newer stuff is out of balance.

 

[fivestringdan]

Why are they getting so weird? it's so unnecessary and really confuses people just tell us what it does.

Ibanez

 

[shaggy45]

Love my nordenbacker pickup

 

[Mvilmany]

Ok, some of you guys need to loosen up a little bit. Rather than copy filled with vague and pretentious adjectives (WAY too much of this throughout the music industry), this is a humorous spin on marketing, aimed at younger generations. I don’t see how anyone who knows how to use a soldering iron wouldn’t be able to figure out that this thing is a tone knob that switches between 2 caps via push-pull.

As a passive P-Bass player who regularly uses the tone knob, I really want this thing, and I’m probably going to order one soon.

Speaking of ordering from Nordstrand, I ordered my NP4v pickup, which I absolutely love, from Nordstrand. I had questions and they were great to deal with. Carey was even one of the people who helped me out. 5 years later, and I still love everything about this pickup.

 

[Kubicki Fan]

Copy produced two pages of TB hoopla. Mission accomplished.