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What are pickup covers for?

#162
thetawaves said:
Apparenty they're going to put a sound-o-chronic dye on the next generation of covers so they change colour and display images depending on the "mood" of music you're playing; hot pink for black metal and a skull and crossbones insignia for those smooth jazz moments.

Only $129483 a pair as well, sounds like a hot deal to me :) I hope they're smooth enough for upper region chord transition...
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Hey I remember those mood rings ... now mood pickup covers! It's about time!
 
#163
Contrary to popular belief, Pickup Covers were infact designed for espionage purposes during the second world war. :ninja:

using these advanced 'Pickup Covers' allied spies were able to 'pickup' top secret documents while deep in enemy territory while remaining under the 'cover' of darkness by throwing them in a boomerang like action, retrieving the document and returning it to them leaving the enemy unawears.
 
#167
rcarraher said:
Oh yeah! I just finished writing their "CUSTOMER SATISFACTION" hot line. Oh, and getting back from the chiropractors, optometrist and poditrist.

There was this pimply faced kid in GC (not the chiropractors) with a zillion tatoos of pickup covers all over both arms,and down one side of his left ear. So I asked him about that. He took the saftey pin out of his nose and told me they were tats of Cast Iron Pickup covers used by Greg Willis on his bass back in the day. They were the greatest thing if you played "heavey metal". Well, I'm a jazz player;) but I have been wanting to move my sound a little more to the dark side, maybe even invent a genre. So, I bought some, on sale, $99.95. Ran right home (well, to be truthful:D I drove) and mounted those suckers.

Bad idea. They threw the ballance off of my Steinberger so badly that the neck immediately rose up and hit me in the left side of the face, breaking my sun glasses. It yanked my right shoulder to the floor, wrenching my back out, and trhe sucker landed on my foot, cutting straight through my guicci loafers and breaking my little toe. (That the part where the chiropractor and podiatrist come in)I've heard of neck dive, but this sucker practically levitated. Took 'em back to the store on my way home from the various docs and the kid just smirked at me and told me I was an idiot, those were left handed pickup covers, and anyway should never be used on a bass without at least a 42, 3/32s scale. But, he did add this piece of advice, they are just fine if you are sitting down and holding the bass in your lap. Now he tells me.:crying:
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See ...?

That's why I got the Neo's. All the power at a small fraction of the weight.
 
#168
HI GUYS NOOOBEEE HERE, I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW DO DO THE SEARCH THINGY, BUT I LOOKED IN OFF TOPIC AND DIDN'T FIND IT AND STUMBO DIDN'T HAVE ANY LINKS FOR ME ON IT SO I GUESS I'LL JUST ASK IT,DONT HATE ME O.K.??? LOL BUT O,K, WHAT ARE THE BEST PICK UP COVERS FOR CUTTING THRU THE MIX ON MY RAD NEW SX J BASS. THANKS TBERS.
 
#169
xgator4u said:
HI GUYS NOOOBEEE HERE, I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW DO DO THE SEARCH THINGY, BUT I LOOKED IN OFF TOPIC AND DIDN'T FIND IT AND STUMBO DIDN'T HAVE ANY LINKS FOR ME ON IT SO I GUESS I'LL JUST ASK IT,DONT HATE ME O.K.??? LOL BUT O,K, WHAT ARE THE BEST PICK UP COVERS FOR CUTTING THRU THE MIX ON MY RAD NEW SX J BASS. THANKS TBERS.
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YOU ARE SHOUTING AND THAT OVERLOADS THE INPUT STAGE.:hiding::hiding::hiding: It is a well kept secret that shouting disturbs the function of the most expensive pickup covers. Severe overloading the input stage causes your rad new SX J bass to sound like an all original '62 J bass, and who wants a bass that old :rollno::rollno::rollno:. If you disengage the "Caps" button, the whole fantastic tone of your bass will unfold before your eyes and ears (he have discussed the visual as well as the psych-acoustic effect of pickup covers in previous posts) :cool:
 
#170
They were invented by the French in the early 1800's... after the defeat of Napoleon by the British they were on display for a while in the Natural History museum, London.

During the second world war they were moved to Scotland for fear of invasion by the German armies, where they remained, neglected.

They were re-discovered by one Leo Fender when he was visiting Scotland on vacation from his day job as a watchmaker in downtown Manhattan.

So impressed by these articles was he that he bought the entire collection and had them shipped out to the states in the late '50's.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Update!

If you're watching Wimbledon on the BBC, Sue Barker has a pair of matching JB pup covers fashioned into earrings.
 
#171
I won't regret selling my ss pickup covers for my new vintage all-tube SVT pickup covers!!! However, I'm looking for :help:

My bass uses 8-ohm strings and my pickup covers are 4-ohm covers. Can I use two pickup covers safely? Or...should I buy some new 2-ohm stable pickups instead. There are some nice vintage 2-ohm pickup covers on Ishibashi right now!!! Only $700 for shipping to Canada!:hyper:
 
#172
I just read about this company that is planning on coming out with a bass body with no pickups on it what so ever. You heard me right it's a solid body with no pickups. You first design the body, bridge, tuners and neck to what you want then you purchase, from the same company, one or all from their pickup cover lines. Because the pickups are in the pickup covers. So, then you just screw on the pickup covers, over top the strings, and you got the sound you want. They've got pickup covers for all the best basses ever made. 62/65/75-J-bass, 51/57/62-P-bass, Ricki, 60's Hofner Beatle Bass, etc. You name it they got it.
So, for one set you'd have a old Motown 62 P-bass sound then in the second set you'd have a more modern Sadowsky type tone.
I think it's a brilliant idea.
I'll pass on the web site as soon as they're up and running.
Cheers
 
#178
anyone know the release date for the Mike Pope 8 channel pickup covers? i don't play upright but it says that its great for doubling. i'm strapped for cash what do you guys think about this bass?

http://cgi.ebay.com/BLUE-Upright-Standup-Bass-3-4-W-Bag-Bow-FREE-SHIP_W0QQitemZ350221091612QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item518acdc31c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1205|293%3A1|294%3A50

the color is slick and together with the MP 8 band the final cost will *only* be $4500.
 
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#180
It's really about the tone. My new Badass3M really gives me a great 'P-bass with flats' kind of sound.

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