Product: Epiphone 60's Firebird Electric Pickups
Price Paid: US $free used
Submitted
09/08/2001
at
10:14pm
by
Jonathan Dilley
Email: doctor_wurm at hotmail<dot>com
Features
:
Pickup features: Single coil electric guitar pickup (passive)
Impedence or other specs: not very much, kinda like stock P-pickups on 8.5 vol
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: "Memphis" 4 string jazz P-bass
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: none
Other pickups on guitar: a stock pickup from a samick bass
Artists using this pickup: me!
You musical style(s): on bass guitar,, something like Red Hot Chili Peppers bass guitarist
Reason for pickup change: Experiment with electric guitar pickups. It's intresting,
I got this thing off of an old 60's "Audition" guitar.
It's cool, becuase of course, a electric pickup with 6 pole peices fits (for string width) a 4 string bass.
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: On a bass, it's like the P-pickup I have on it, at a vol of 8.5
Tone: good overall tone quality. not brittle, mellow warm highs, good mids, and good lows. Not good for over-powering bass lows.
Sonic evaluation: oh yeah, a nice amp if I may say so. A peavey Mark III, made around
1981. It's a 300w head, with 150w per side. 7 band EQ, two shelving
knobs, one for high and one for low, with -15 to +15 db each. Post and Pre gains. Bright and Punch buttons. Effects loop. DDT Compression
thingy.
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: whatever sounds good. I mainly look for good tonal qualities and good flow. I don't think this pickup was "mean't" for a specific position.
Overall Rating
:
10
Comments: well, considering it's just a electric guitar pickup, and yes, it has *that* sound that I want from a bass guitar, I need to buy a new bass
that I can mod for it. (now it's just taped under the strings on the body. (it's a firebird pickup, so it's about a .25 inch tall.
