Product: Bartolini MME 5
Price Paid: EUR 130
Submitted
11/28/2003
at
05:28pm
by
Walter
Email: dalrok99 at yahoo<dot>de
Features
:
Pickup features: Humbucking
Impedence or other specs:
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: Aslin Dane AMD-200-5
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced: Aslin Dane
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): Heavy Metal / Rock / Jazz / Pop / Funk
Reason for pickup change: Original Pickup very limited
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: less than original and MM
Tone: very balanced and versatile
Sonic evaluation: Ibanez 73 lawsuit J-Bass w. EMG active PU's, Claim custom hand made J-Bass w. Seymour Duncan PU's, Aslin Dane 5-String MM-copy w. Bart. MME5;
Amp is Glockenklang Bass Art through HK 2x12" + HK 2x12"+Horn Cabs or 1xHK 2x12" + SWR 4x10" Cab
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Suitable for everything. With Bartolini active electronics it's a real killer.
Overall Rating
:
10
Comments: I'm playing for 30 years everything from Big Band to Heavy Metal. I always liked my J-Basses for their versatitity, esp. the Ibanez, it's one of the best J-Basses I ever played, heard and never will give away. But the 5-string with the MME5 and the active electronics is suitable for everything (Low B is the best I ever heard, except by a ZON). The only thing You can't get is the Jaco P. sounds - here the Seymour Duncan vintage PU's and the Claim fretless are the real thing.
The EMG's are great too but the Bart has more character.
I'd buy the MME5 again (and the Bartolini electronics too).
I'm thinking of replacing the EMG's in my Ibanez with Bart's.
