What is a Piezo pickup?

[Doug]

And were still laughing at you.

 

[mayfairmistress]

now this is more like it.

 

[mayfairmistress]

nothing is nothing and free within itself everything holds nothing while being held nothingness in freedom is better than knowing everything and being controled by the nothingness within your soul.

 

[mayfairmistress]

im just giving you what you expect.

 

[Doug]

Originally posted by mayfairmistress
im just giving you what you expect.

Which is nothing!

 

[mayfairmistress]

! i love you!!!!!!!!

 

[Doug]

I'm touched.


Really I am.

 

[mayfairmistress]

i just refuse to belive that no one knows what im talking about.


i still love ya

 

[Stingray5]

Originally posted by mayfairmistress
look, im not ignorant, i know im not ignorant, its just people like you that take everything personaly and asume im ignorant and go acting like im ignorant tend to make me act ignorant.

I guess this should make us all aware of the difference between ignorance and IGNOREance, starting..... NOW!

 

[Joris]

Originally posted by mayfairmistress
you people make it sound like theres this big thing that we all need to be worked up about. yes i was being sarcastic but it really doesnt seem like you really care if i was being sarcastic or not ........ by the way, im still laughing at you.

Actually I care if you're being sarcastic. It's the difference between making a good joke and insulting someone. The dividing line is usually very thin.

I'm a sarcastic guy myself. I couldn't make up the sarcasm in your first post in this thread. How do you expect non-sarcasts to understand you, if even I didn't?

 

[mayfairmistress]

i dont expect anyone to understand me. is there any possible way you people can stop attacking me and at least TRY to understand, since all of you are such nice people.

 

[Andy Daventry]

Dammit. I thought this thread was about piezos (which I pronounce 'pee yet tso' myself). I guess I'll go somewhere else with my question.

 

[Bob Gollihur]

It's a shame piezos sense bad vibrations as well as the harmonious ones. Wouldn't it be a better world??

And wouldn't my EUB bass playing last night have included fewer mistakes?? ;-)

enough already.

 

[Andy Daventry]

Ha! Bob has his eye on the thread! I'll post here....

I am becoming more determined in my plan to de-piezo my Rob Allen (I bet you saw the post n TBL!). question s...what do I replace it with. I don't want to import pickups...here is hat is locally available.

DiMarzio Ultra Jazz..

Selection of SD Active pups

MEC active pups.

In a few weeks, EMG Jazz bass singles....

Bleah, I love passive single coil pups but....

Any thoughts, however tangental, gratefully fawned upon...

Andy

 

[Bob Gollihur]

Hard to believe you're de-piezoing a Rob Allen, Andy! I saw but don't recollect your reasons, but it's still surprising even without them. Perhaps adding a magnetic pickup to the mix along with a blend pot may be the best solution; my Fender A/E has that hybrid arrangement, and so does my son's custom fretless six string, with a K&K piezo string and Lane Poor soapbar - which is an awesome axe.

As far as your mag candidates, I've only brief experience with one-- the DiMarzio UltraJazz, which sounded good to me when I played them once and also to Bass Player mag. in their relatively recent jazz pickup comparison, still available on their web site for your perusal. I have a set sitting here waiting for one of two project basses I expect to get to in the next 4-6 weeks.

 

[Andy Daventry]

It's long and rather complicated and has to do with the fact that I can NOT get a good sound out of a bass amp with the piezo. It sounds OK through the PA, but does not reproduce the glorious acoustic sound of the MB2 in a convincing way. Believe me, I have been playing the bass since last December. I have run it thrhough a Sadowsky preamp, and a DI box (with nearly 5 Meg input impedence) into the amp...but it only improved the sound slightly...got rid of a certain brittlenss. The best bass sopund I got with a bass amp was through a Fender Basman 400. Other amps don't have the power....

I admit it's a sin to so conventionalise an MB2, but it'S the most practical solution to the problem.

 

[Andy Daventry]

Another solution would be to swap the MB2 for a fretless jazz. But that's out of the question here in Turkey...

 

[Eric Cameron]

Ya know, I should get on-line more often. Stupid parents.

I WAS going to shut down this thread, but it seems that everyone has had the right idea about changing back to the original subject.

Andy, I hope that you can find a nice set (Pickups, that is) I might suggest a set of single coil EMG humbuckers (Saw in Bassics magazine) that are highly recommended.

Rock on
Eric

 

[Vallin]

Great answer, Joris! (Previous page)

 

[Vallin]

It's long and rather complicated and has to do with the fact that I can NOT get a good sound out of a bass amp with the piezo. It sounds OK through the PA, but does not reproduce the glorious acoustic sound of the MB2 in a convincing way. Believe me, I have been playing the bass since last December. I have run it thrhough a Sadowsky preamp, and a DI box (with nearly 5 Meg input impedence) into the amp...but it only improved the sound slightly...got rid of a certain brittlenss. The best bass sopund I got with a bass amp was through a Fender Basman 400. Other amps don't have the power....

I admit it's a sin to so conventionalise an MB2, but it'S the most practical solution to the problem.

@Andy Daventry: You need something like Sting's 'Synchronicity' set-up ("it's like a PA, and it's very loud") or Greg Lake's monster 1974 set-up (Google California Jam). You need a bi- or tri-amped system suitable for PA or keyboards with stereo stacks. Folded 18's or 15's, multiple 10's or 12's for mids, and high horns. You might want to consider a PA or KBD package, but one with a lot of power and a powered subwoofer.