Impedance and pickups

[Owen]

I have an Audere preamp which has a kind of addictive low impedance switch on it. It is pretty addictive. I know nothing of the inside stuff. Is this do-able without using an Audere? Some sort of passive jiggery-pokery?

[ikay]

Technical blurb from Audere here:
- [url="http://www.audereaudio.com/TechDetails.htm"]http://www.audereaud...TechDetails.htm[/url]

A passive varitone control does something similar using a stepped tone control with different value capacitors:
- [url="http://www.certainbass.com/varitone.html"]http://www.certainba...m/varitone.html[/url]
- [url="http://www.seymourduncan.com/tonefiend/guitar/a-modern-vari-tone-alternative/"]http://www.seymourdu...ne-alternative/[/url]

I have an Audere in my JO4. Great little preamp IMHO and the z-mode adds real body to the sound. Yes it can be addictive! But I love the punch and clarity of a jazz so tend to use it on the 'standard' z-setting most of the time.

Edited December 23, 2012 by ikay

[Owen]

I shall bring life to my own thread.

 

Does anyone (or could anyone) put something together which would do this Low-Z thang that I could plumb into a passive or an active bass? Like that bit of the Audere which I REALLY liked. I know that an active pre will be buffering the pickups so where to put the new bit in the signal path would be an issue.