What are pickup covers for?

[RickBlair]

Is a pickup cover for a 35" scale bass more difficult to use than a pickup cover for a 34" scale bass?

Rick B.

 

[McStuff]

Which pickup covers should I get for a stiff B string? Which is better, fretted or fretless pickup covers?

 

[mentalpatient]

Do I need them to cover the 2 rows of holes showing the shiny bits ?

 

[Hawaii Islander]

They're for keeping the shiney bits from falling out!

 

[Vic Winters]

I heard the Neo covers don't sound the same as the old school ones. Is this true?

 

[RAM]

One thing I've found, IME, is that road-worn pickup covers are more vintage sounding than shiny ones. Anybody else find this to be true?

 

[ghoulbug]

I just installed a BadassII bridge on my MM signature and the tone is SO much better. I can't really say how it's better, but I'll say that it is.

 

[RAM]

I just installed a BadassII bridge on my MM signature and the tone is SO much better. I can't really say how it's better, but I'll say that it is.

So is it safe to say, based on your comment, that the bridge is an equally important component of overall tone to pickup covers?

 

[spade2you]

So, how do you get sick off a pickup cover?

 

[EagleMoon]

Wait wait wait....aren't they for repelling the aliens? I mean, if you have metal pickup covers, they can't hear your thoughts then, right? Right???

 

[Dogbertday]

I like the nitro pickup covers... they age more evenly

 

[kobass]

So, how do you get sick off a pickup cover?

lol!

/thread

 

[rcarraher]

Is a pickup cover for a 35" scale bass more difficult to use than a pickup cover for a 34" scale bass?

Rick B.

You can get those, you know. But they are special order from the Custom Shop. They go for something like $1195.00, and they are made by an award winning and much hailed Pickup Cover Smith. I got some on my CS, gold ones, but I still use them for ash trays. Only at high class cocktail partys tho'....

 

[Tommygunn]

I like my unlined active pickup covers... though the flatwound, 18volt active covers are looking nice

 

[rcarraher]

One thing I've found, IME, is that road-worn pickup covers are more vintage sounding than shiny ones. Anybody else find this to be true?

I go more for the Closet Classics, yo know, nice parina and pitted finish. The Road Word with all those dents just don't do it for me. I had one set with a humongous dent right on the top corner and it made my E string rattle and buzz. Nearly snapped the neck trying to adjust it out.

 

[Kwesi]

The obvious solution would be to get taper core pickup covers! They give you the absolute best sound you can get from your bass. If your still unsatisfied then the pickup covers are definitely not the problem.

 

[Tommygunn]

We gotta stop we might actually confuse new bassists... pft Na Its fun messing with them!!!

 

[5StringBlues]

Do any parts suppliers make custom color pickup covers that would match the one I have on my Ford Ranger?

 

[BobWestbrook]

Everyone knows they are there to counteract the magnetic forces caused by the rotation of the earth, which can effect your tone. The closer you live to the equator, the more effect.

 

[David Jayne]

So, how do you get sick off a pickup cover?

Pretty sure Billy Mayes sells something for that.
Do you prefer Maple, or Rosewood pickup covers? Which has a brighter tone?