What the heck? 14 strings

[Jazz Ad]

Yes. I couldn't find separate pictures though.
You find them mostly on Steinberger EUBs, I've seen fretless basses equiped with this system too.

 

[Matt Fat Cat]

My vote still goes for Doucheland

The province of Masengil?

 

[meev992]

At first it sounds like a good idea but the Wishbass factor would be high and I think this bass deserves better.
I think individual "plot" pickups ala Atlansia or EMG would look awesome.

Of course, the same pickups from Atlansia's upright-like bass....

I must be off today, because I should've thought of that one sooner.

here's an example of what Jazz Ad was talking about

 

[Triad]

I'd use a couple of Barts... since the bridge spacing is so narrow maybe a couple of 5 or 6 strings models will do. I'd keep the body as clean as possible.

 

[pilotjones]

The atlansia single pups are listed on the site as discontinued, no longer available for sale. They were listed at a really high price, too. Along those lines, their listed parts prices have always been really high--does anyone know if there is a discount applicable? They have some cool bridges.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

At this point, I'm planning to wind a huge single coil pu w/ 14 pole pieces, but I would be really interested if anyone had other ideas!

You'll get better tone with multiple smaller coils than one big coil.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

EMG makes something like that?

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That's what they use on the NS basses. This is the six string version.

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Clint Searcy makes single string pickups. He's a TalkBass member.

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He doesn't have them listed on his site, but they look like this:

 

[PilbaraBass]

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That's what they use on the NS basses. This is the six string version.

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Clint Searcy makes single string pickups. He's a TalkBass member.

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He doesn't have them listed on his site, but they look like this:

you know...you can MAKE those...just buy those little 24VDC relays...pull out the coil, solder on some leads, and put a magnet under them...I'm currently looking to resurrect a broken acoustic soundhole pickup like this...

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

you know...you can MAKE those...just buy those little 24VDC relays...pull out the coil, solder on some leads, and put a magnet under them...I'm currently looking to resurrect a broken acoustic soundhole pickup like this...

That would work. You might need to boost the output up a bit, but with 14 in series, that should be enough!

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[PilbaraBass]

That would work. You might need to boost the output up a bit, but with 14 in series, that should be enough!

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I've done some research on some...you can get some that have 2H of inductance and 1k6 of resistance...quite a bit...

I've also seen others with about 600R resistance, these in series would give you 8k2 series resistance...personally, I'd try setting them up so that they'd by hum cancelling (can be done by flipping the coils and magnet poles on seven of the 14).

 

[Dusty G]

I'm pretty intimidated by complicated electronics. What do you think the easiest way to do this would be? (W/ good tone, of course!) Pics later!

 

[roflol]

mate what you've done isn't exactly simple don't diminish your efforts by taking the easy root it all adds to experience and will be a valuable learning curve for future projects

 

[Searcy]

Wow! what a cool project.

The Scarabs I'm making these days look more like this.

They have a resistance of about 5K ohms and use neodymium magnets. The old style looked cool but were a bit too big. I'm a bit surprised to see how much my new ones look like the NS pickups.

Crazy!

 

[theshadow2001]

At first it sounds like a good idea but the Wishbass factor would be high and I think this bass deserves better.
I think individual "plot" pickups ala Atlansia or EMG would look awesome.

Not if you used pickup covers to hide all the wishbassyness of it

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Wow! what a cool project.

The Scarabs I'm making these days look more like this.

They have a resistance of about 5K ohms and use neodymium magnets. The old style looked cool but were a bit too big. I'm a bit surprised to see how much my new ones look like the NS pickups.

Crazy!

I figured you'd show up here after a summoned your name!

 

[blizzard]

Double bass style Piezo?

 

[Searcy]

Where ever there is a low ender struggling against an unrighteous drummer or an over playing guitarist... Just speak my URL and I'll be there. Standing for Groove , Funk and the American way!

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Where ever there is a low ender struggling against an unrighteous drummer or an over playing guitarist... Just speak my URL and I'll be there. Standing for Groove , Funk and the American way!

Hear hear!

Me too.

 

[GuitarFreak664]

can't wait to see when this beast is done

 

[0175westwood29]

+1

more pics lets see how its getting on