Preamps with Buffers for the pickups

[funkle]

Hello all

 

Looking for the hive mind to offer input.

 

I have a pair of beautiful sounding humbuckers that lose just a little too much high end in a passive circuit with 2 x 500K volume pots and 1 x 500K tone pot.

 

I'm looking at options for buffering them to regain some of the top end. 

 

I know the John East Uni Pre and the J Retro have pickup buffering built into them. 

 

Do any other preamps have this as well? 

 

Pete

[itu]

Noll Mixpot works very well. I have had it in my previous Modulus 5 SPi custom with bartolinis, and a current Status copy. You can buy a preamp from him as well.

 

There's some US preamp with a mixer, but the name is somewhere here in the threads which I have forgotten. EMG is also one.

[Hellzero]

You named it before @itu: Bartolini...

Edited January 5 by Hellzero

[funkle]

2 hours ago, itu said:

Noll Mixpot works very well. I have had it in my previous Modulus 5 SPi custom with bartolinis, and a current Status copy. You can buy a preamp from him as well.

 

There's some US preamp with a mixer, but the name is somewhere here in the threads which I have forgotten. EMG is also one.

Nice. The Noll MixPot looks good. https://www.noll-electronic.de/bass-electronics/mixpot/

 

As for EMG. It looks like EMG does one system that straight up is what I could use out of the box - https://www.emgpickups.com/bass/accessories/btssystemhz.html

They also do something like the Noll MixPot, which you use in front of a lot of their other EQ systems - an active blend control -  https://www.emgpickups.com/bass/accessories/abc.html

 

@Hellzero I found a Bartolini buffer as well. https://bartolini.net/product/agb
 

I wonder if any of the Bart preamps have buffering without having to use the buffer listed above. It doesn’t look like it from their website. 

Great suggestions guys. Thanks. 

[itu]

There's one more, but it is sold in the US only... oh dear, it is Audere.

 

bartolini has functional preamps, but not all have mixers.

[funkle]

Ah, Audere, I forgot about them. Nice preamps. 
 

Now I think about it, the Lusithand Double NFP must have a pickup buffer as well….? 

[Hellzero]

Richter in Germany also have a twin buffer preamp in their range.

 

https://www.richter-ee.de/mixer.html

 

EBS had a terrific buffered preamp too, but it's not made anymore.

 

[LukeFRC]

All preamps will have a buffer in them at the input stage. Or an input stage that is effectively a buffer. 

 

East Uni pre and others will buffer each pickup and then active blend.

Others will use a passive blend before the preamp. 

[lemmywinks]

I have a dual channel Bartolini buffer preamp knocking around somewhere, I used it in my old fretless to buffer the piezo bridge with the mag pickups. Will dig it out tonight if you're interested?

[funkle]

3 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

I have a dual channel Bartolini buffer preamp knocking around somewhere, I used it in my old fretless to buffer the piezo bridge with the mag pickups. Will dig it out tonight if you're interested?

That’s incredibly kind of you. Are you sure you don’t need it?

[lemmywinks]

11 minutes ago, funkle said:

That’s incredibly kind of you. Are you sure you don’t need it?

 

I took the piezo bridge out of that bass so it isn't being used, dunno how much they go for. Just done battle with my parts box and can't find it, have a feeling I took it into work as I was going to put it up for sale along with the piezo bridge so will check tomorrow and get the model number. I think it's this one so may not be suitable for your needs:

https://bartolini.net/product/mpb2/

[funkle]

1 hour ago, lemmywinks said:

 

I took the piezo bridge out of that bass so it isn't being used, dunno how much they go for. Just done battle with my parts box and can't find it, have a feeling I took it into work as I was going to put it up for sale along with the piezo bridge so will check tomorrow and get the model number. I think it's this one so may not be suitable for your needs:

https://bartolini.net/product/mpb2/

Ah, you’re right, it may not work for my needs. I appreciate you thinking of me though.