SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!
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Double Bass What is this pickup??????????????
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SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!
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It's basically a Fender P-bass pickup hacked onto an upright bass.
Actually I think it was d'Armond, not d'Addario. They made a ridiculously awful upright pickup too.
This pickup is commonly available in Japan, called "Gold 999.9" It's a p bass pickup and preamp which mounts - with 6 screws - to the end of the fingerboard.
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I think Brent Nussey nailed it on the head.
Thank you guys so much for all the help iv been looking everywhere for that pickup.
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Thank you guys so much for all the help iv been looking everywhere for that pickup.
This is why I love talkbass beautiful things happen everyday
Hello All,
It's just fascinating to me how these magnetic's resurface from time to time. Back at the dawn of bass pickups I had a 4 element magnetic, designed by Paul Toneinges. It certianly worked well enough with my Ampeg B-15N(C)
At the time these were popular, the choices avaliable in transducers was limited to the Polytone and Barcus Berry. The most popular of these pickups was the Toby, that was used buy many players. Once the Underwood, came on the
market most of these pickups just vanished from the market, because it sounded much more like a bass. The Schaller magnetic got popular around St. Louis eventually, because a local repair man used them on his bass. Bartolini, custom
designed a magnetic for my Clevenger bass that you could mix with the transducers, and based on hearing all of them I think it sounds the best of all the magnetics. Just my two cents. Personally, if I'm playing at high volume levels. I pull
out the Clevenger or the Fender.
Ric
It's just fascinating to me how these magnetic's resurface from time to time. Back at the dawn of bass pickups I had a 4 element magnetic, designed by Paul Toneinges. It certianly worked well enough with my Ampeg B-15N(C)
At the time these were popular, the choices avaliable in transducers was limited to the Polytone and Barcus Berry. The most popular of these pickups was the Toby, that was used buy many players. Once the Underwood, came on the
market most of these pickups just vanished from the market, because it sounded much more like a bass. The Schaller magnetic got popular around St. Louis eventually, because a local repair man used them on his bass. Bartolini, custom
designed a magnetic for my Clevenger bass that you could mix with the transducers, and based on hearing all of them I think it sounds the best of all the magnetics. Just my two cents. Personally, if I'm playing at high volume levels. I pull
out the Clevenger or the Fender.
Ric
Forget the Pickup....What are the 2 Rubberbands(?), perpendicular to the strings, doing on the (alleged) Fingerboard?! Is this a Slap Enhancement Device of some sort?
Yikes.
If you want to buy one, here's the best price I could quickly find:
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average price seems to be around 44400 yen.
And I read the installation information and learned something new. There's also an element that attaches to the back of the neck to pick up the slap sound. So I guess the magnetic pickup is blended with the slap transducer by all those dice-looking knobs. They're labelled as V and T for each pickup. It also seems like it's designed to send the magnetic pickup signal to your amp, and the slap signal to the PA, if you want. An odd design, from my POV, but the guys on the rockabilly scene here seem to love it.
You know one pickup that had seemingly completely disappeared?
Pierre Joseph String Charger. I haven't heard that mentioned in years.
Hey,
This is a bit off subject, but the 2 stage reduction on the fingerboard (where the right hand slaps ) stands out to me. I guess he had that done to get enough height to grab the strings while retaining lower action for fingering. I don't know why it seems to be in two stages... Although this seems to be a bit extreme, I bet it works for him.
Has anyone here done something like this (or a less extreme version) to their bass? I've thought of shaving some off the end of my fingerboard on my slapping bass, as it is rather scooped...
Thanks, All Three
This is a bit off subject, but the 2 stage reduction on the fingerboard (where the right hand slaps ) stands out to me. I guess he had that done to get enough height to grab the strings while retaining lower action for fingering. I don't know why it seems to be in two stages... Although this seems to be a bit extreme, I bet it works for him.
Has anyone here done something like this (or a less extreme version) to their bass? I've thought of shaving some off the end of my fingerboard on my slapping bass, as it is rather scooped...
Thanks, All Three
