Graham's Cat Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 What is the better pick up for a fretless? Delano, Seymour or Knuckles? Single coil or buck the hum hmm? What about tone sustain and dynamics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamdenRob Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 What bass are you looking to put them into? i'd say Wal pickups are unsurpassed for fretless but they are not commercially available outside of Wal basses. Asides from that, the only other comment I can make from personal experience is that I have a set of DiMarzio DP123s in my new peterbuilt fretless jazz and they sound great clear and deep with plenty of burp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hubrad Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Also consider whether you're after smoothie smoothie kinda fretless tone (probably what most folks are after) or more attacky sound (like me!) so you can play fretless in any context. I recently put a set of EMG into my Overwater Jazz; it was brilliant with the Barts, but the EMGs really slice though yet with tons of power! This is about the best recording of it I've heard so far.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3NMmtYH3M Your ears, your choice. Have fun experimenting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 [quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1455184759' post='2976705'] Also consider whether you're after smoothie smoothie kinda fretless tone (probably what most folks are after) or more attacky sound (like me!) so you can play fretless in any context. I recently put a set of EMG into my Overwater Jazz; it was brilliant with the Barts, but the EMGs really slice though yet with tons of power! This is about the best recording of it I've heard so far.. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3NMmtYH3M"]https://www.youtube....h?v=ew3NMmtYH3M[/url] Your ears, your choice. Have fun experimenting. [/quote] Off topic - but your band is awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hubrad Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 [quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1455883292' post='2983244'] Off topic - but your band is awesome! [/quote] Thanks.. they are rather, and they put up with my foibles, particularly variable availability, rather well. A superb bunch of guys! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.