hooky_lowdown Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 28 minutes ago, bremen said: I was looking for a pickup that could give as much pure low end as heard on some of his recordings. You've got it wrong then. As mentioned earlier a capacitor with a higher value, above the standard 0.047 will allow more pure low end through your signal, and less higher end. The opposite is true if you use a lower value, like a guitar cap of 0.022. Pickups depending on how they're wound may do this, but a capacitor change to a higger value will definitely add more lower end, as well as increasing height to the E string pickup, and eq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 one of my stack knob jazzes was a bit bright sounding so kiogon rewired it for me and fitted the 0.1uF cap, it made a big difference for me and sounds great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted August 3 Author Share Posted August 3 Increasing the cap will reduce the highs for sure, but won't do anything to the fundamental (unless it gets big enough to resonate with the inductance of the pup at 42Hz) Anyway. I don't want to cut the highs. I want Everything Louder Than Everything Else 🙂 Closest I got to a proper reggae sound was with a bitsa P, with a SD alnico MM pickup up in the mudbucker position, Chromes and no tone capacitor, ampeg svp Pro and a pair of 15s live, bit of compression for recording. If I play reggae again I'll use that again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 2 minutes ago, bremen said: ampeg svp Pro and a pair of 15s live Great setup 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted August 3 Author Share Posted August 3 Just now, Reggaebass said: Great setup Got a lot of complaints 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Just now, bremen said: Got a lot of complaints 😁 From the neighbours 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted August 3 Author Share Posted August 3 Just now, Reggaebass said: From the neighbours 😁 You know them then ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoulderpet Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 On 31/07/2024 at 09:12, bremen said: Yes, that's probably part of Family's tone. But it doesnt work with my current pickup, just becomes muddy. Thanks for the dimarzio tip. Though I'm in a rabbit hole now...found something called a dimarzio ultra that promises a lot You don't want the Ultra jazz pickup, great pickups but bright and scooped, model J is what you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted August 3 Author Share Posted August 3 46 minutes ago, shoulderpet said: You don't want the Ultra jazz pickup, great pickups but bright and scooped, model J is what you want. I'll stick 'em back on Marketplace if they don't satisfy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoulderpet Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 On 03/08/2024 at 17:32, bremen said: I'll stick 'em back on Marketplace if they don't satisfy. The other thing you could do is wire them in series with each other, that will give you a super beefy dark tone, they might be fine though with the tone rolled back, they have decent low end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 On 03/08/2024 at 08:34, hooky_lowdown said: You've got it wrong then. As mentioned earlier a capacitor with a higher value, above the standard 0.047 will allow more pure low end through your signal, and less higher end. The opposite is true if you use a lower value, like a guitar cap of 0.022. Pickups depending on how they're wound may do this, but a capacitor change to a higger value will definitely add more lower end, as well as increasing height to the E string pickup, and eq. Obligatory post pointing out that a passive tone control will never add more anything, only cut… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 Happy to report that the Dimarzios are doing what I wanted them to do. Recording now, so far so fundamental 😁 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 Bartolini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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