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Varitone question

Discussion in 'Pickups & Electronics [BG]' started by Kirk Bryant, Jul 21, 2009.

  1. Jul 21, 2009 #1
    Kirk Bryant

    Kirk Bryant

    Aug 23, 2004
    Aloha, ..Or., not nearly as tropical as it sounds!
    Hi guys: I have a question about these Varitones. I know a lot of you have raved about them for Jazz drop in, but are they available for use in a P-Bass?
    yes I searched first and didn't find the answer though I did gleen a lot of info.

    thanks in advance peace Capt Kirk
     
  2. Jul 22, 2009 #2
    bongomania

    bongomania Supporting Member Commercial User

    Oct 17, 2005
    PDX, OR
    owner, OVNIFX and OVNILabs
    Yes. You can buy them separately, from Stellartone, HAS-sound, and a few other makers, and Rawsound will even make you a pre-wired harness to drop in. I have two of the Rawsound ones, and I've heard the other two I mentioned are good but I haven't tried them.
     
  3. Jul 22, 2009 #3
    greenboy

    greenboy

    Dec 18, 2000
    remote mountain cabin Montana
    greenboy designs: fEARful, bassic, dually, crazy88 etc
    Bongo, what are the selections like on the Rawsound? Seems like it's tougher to come up with 5 varitone settings to fill out a switch for bass that work well in a live setting, than it is for guitar.
     
  4. Jul 22, 2009 #4
    bongomania

    bongomania Supporting Member Commercial User

    Oct 17, 2005
    PDX, OR
    owner, OVNIFX and OVNILabs
    They are:

    1: good
    2: different good
    3: useless
    4: useless
    5: useless

    :)

    It's just a varied selection of high and/or mid cuts, I'm don't know the nominal center frequencies or depth of cut.
     
  5. Jul 22, 2009 #5
    El Kabong

    El Kabong

    Mar 25, 2008
    Central Iowa
  6. Jul 22, 2009 #6
    greenboy

    greenboy

    Dec 18, 2000
    remote mountain cabin Montana
    greenboy designs: fEARful, bassic, dually, crazy88 etc
    Kinda what I figured. About all I can really see in live circumstances is two cap values (there'd be a third but you really don't hear it as that different in a louder band). On guitar it gets cooler because you can get some neat midrange resonance things too, just by combining with coils, for driving distortion. But that can gut a bass role pretty quickly.