deep, dark, heavy jazz bass pickup

[hooky_lowdown]

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.

[Reggaebass]

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 

[bremen]

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.

[Reggaebass]

2 minutes ago, bremen said:

ampeg svp Pro and a pair of 15s live

Great setup 

[bremen]

Just now, Reggaebass said:

Great setup 

Got a lot of complaints 😁

[Reggaebass]

Just now, bremen said:

Got a lot of complaints 😁

From the neighbours 😁

[bremen]

Just now, Reggaebass said:

From the neighbours 😁

You know them then !

[shoulderpet]

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.

[bremen]

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.

[shoulderpet]

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.

[LukeFRC]

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…

[bremen]

Happy to report that the Dimarzios are doing what I wanted them to do. Recording now, so far so fundamental 😁

[NikNik]

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