Product: Bartolini Soapbar
Price Paid: USD 100
Submitted
02/02/2009
at
01:18am
by
ryan
Features
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it's a passive humbucking soapbar. mine is shaped like a gibson thunderbird's. there's a couple possible wiring choices and with a switch you can go from series (max out put) to parallel (1/2 output, less mids but 50% more treble). it also works with aguilar, bartolini and other active preamps. mine is wired in series to a passive volume, tone and jack harness.
Instrument
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it's in the neck position of a mexican made fender jazz after some routing. the standard single coil jazz pickups were there before but i only replaced the neck. i've seen mike watt a hand full of times and kira (at least on youtube) use bartolini, plus alot of costume shops put them on there high end basses so i did a lot of research and nothing else seemed as promising as the barts. i choose the shape cause i love john entwistle's fenderbird basses. the jazz's pickups worked fine but i wanted something with more beef and i like the way a p bass is set up with one pickup.
Sound
:
10
the output is awesome, you barley have to turn the volume on and all the tone is right there. i'm running an ampeg B-112 and use my pastor's fender 250 head with a 12" wedge speaker at church. first of all the tone is what i want to make it--it conveys the fingers on strings better then anything i've ever played and i've tried a lot of basses. if i max the mids and half the lows on the ampeg there's an acoustic quality that's just unbelievable. on the fender head i got the bass all the way, low mids around 250kz cut, high mids around 500 boosted and the treble half way up--it rocks the room!
Overall Rating
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10
if i lost it i'd replace it in a second. been playing 10plus years, have had a fender P bass and jazz bass, short scale gretch, use the pastor's dipinto semi-hallow bass, an upright--with a fishmen pickup, an old solid state ampeg 2 x 15, hartke head, some accordains and some effects pedals. i had a dodge ram charger to.
i love that it works and works well, that it's USA made and hate that i don't have one for the fretless bass.
i did alot or research online, tried out a few basses with EMGs and Basslines but ordered the Bart sight unseen/sound unheard.
