5 string pickup help

[ibznorange]

well, im totally playing doctor and going all surgeonfuck on my 5 string. this includes new pickups. its loaded with stock yamaha soapbars. i wanted to put emgs in, namely a musicman bridge and a jbass neck. however, not available for 5 string. how shitty. so i look into seymour duncan. closer, they make the mm for 5, but its passive. im ok with passive, but on bass i prefer active. ima keep looking. any suggestions?

 

[dpm]

The MM's are passive but generally run through an active preamp.

I highly recommend Delano pickups from Germany. I've heard them and they sound fantastic. Another well kept secret is the BassXX preamp, also from Germany (used on BassLab basses I believe). It's basically a great sounding EQ to shape your pickup's natural tone. If you want manipulate the sound further the Audere preamps are just amazing, and David is fantastic to deal with.

 

[ibznorange]

DELANO PICKUP SYSTEMS

oh man. its like the two pickups i want in one! oh man.
but the price... the set of those plus a j neck, is more than i originally paid for the bass! but oh man.

thanks a ton.

anybody have experience with bartolini MM and Jbass pickups? i've onlyl used some random soapbars

 

[dpm]

Sweet The Hybrid package comes with 3 band EQ! That's awesome, I wasn't aware Delano made preamps too.

I've found Bartolini a bit patchy personally. Some folks swear by them, but IMO what some of the newer companies are doing now has really raised the bar.

 

[ibznorange]

man. this poor bass. its a yamaha rbx775. Its getting the frets ripped out. a nice mahogany block in the middle. apparently a delano hybrid with jazz neck setup, a graphtech hipshot type a bridge, piezo loaded. im also doing a bit of recontouring on the top horn, and the neck back.

dan, consider your mental shit flexed upon, and deemed true

 

[distressed_romeo]

This is getting off-topic, but when I saw the title of this thread I thought you were talking about one of those five-string guitars tuned in fifths that Schecter used to make...

 

[dpm]

So did I

 

[ibznorange]

lol i wanna try one