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J Tone is simply the best Upright Piezo you can buy for the price. Nothing comes close. All piezo pickups need just the right amount of pressure to work correctly. Opening up or shimming the gap in your bridge is crucial to getting a good tone. J Tone Pickups are built using quality components. I am running one on one of my basses. It sings!😀😀

It’s a 1930s Pfretzschner, refurbished by myself.

My first upright was a Ply Boosey Hawks Excelsior 1/2 size, a great little bass. If you’re going to play through amplification a 1/2 size works well, a bit more feedback resistant in fact. Acoustically you’re going to loose a bit bottom end but that’s offset by easier playing scale length. For solo stuff it would probably be advantageous IMO.

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I have used the doubler in the past but I ended up chopping one Piezo, The big single works just fine, the double seemed to thin out the sound on my ply bass. These pickups are as good as any on the market selling for three times the price. If you bought a double and didn't like it you could easily chop it and solder a Female Jack socket on then keep as a spare. Its the best value wing Pup IMO.

I've played bigger Fender jazz necks, Lol. Kay basses are known for thin necks.

Nicholas Dubouchet, what a sense of rhythm. The man has some great chops.

Wayne, I posted a "How to" a little while ago on here, Foam plugs worked best for me, a second sound-post was a pain as I sometimes record or gig acoustically. Have a look back here....

Nancy, If you want a decent EUB go for the Stagg, it won't sound anything like a D/B but then the Wav or NXT won't.... but, its cheap and cheerful and will give you an idea of how different D/B is to slab bass. Non of the basses mentioned here sound anywhere near a real D/B (even an el cheapo D/B) I have played all of these and to my way of thinking the Stagg is the best EUB for the money. If you want D/B sound you need a D/B....Simples!

Crikey! get a bit of 2x1 cut it to the right length (it will take a few goes) and stick it in the Bass side F hole next to the bass bar, It should be tight enough to stop vibrations of the top and slack enough so as it doesn't fall over (or vice verse) A luthier will charge you an arm and a leg for making your bass sound quieter and less feedback prone when everyone else is trying to make their bass louder. Other than that, try making some F hole covers. A quick scroll down the EUB D\Bass page will give you some idea. I don't want to put any luthiers out of work but this is real basic stuff.

Get a Greenboy F112, keep the Tonehammer and yes an Fdec. In front. Just my take on it 😀

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It’s a 56 S9 Paul.

What Paul said^^^^ People will tell you its your pre-amp, soundpost, EQ, Set up...Bla! Bla!.. but playing with a loud drummer and guitarist on small stages will always become a problem for Upright Bass, F-hole covers help a lot. Make your own. I used a masking tape template over F-holes, pencil rub the outline, cut the outline and stick it to some gardeners Foam Kneeling Pads. then using a scroll saw cut out the outline. Cheap and it works.

These look a lot like Jarger's

Would a Cordes Lambert D+G not get you anywhere near Rabbie? Im on Guts at the minute, (Lenzer) paired with and A+E from the Pirastro Evah Slap set. It works well on my bass. I tried the Cordes A and G with this set up and keep going back to the Guts but in all honesty there isn't much difference in it tone wise. (depending on how picky you are) Feel wise well thats another thing. I'm keeping them though, just in case, but I know they work if I need them.

All Piezo wing pickups like the J Tone are pretty "microphonic" more so than a guitar type transducer. So yes, if you touch it or flick it with your finger you will get a thump or crack coming out of the speaker. The secret with this type of P/up is the fitting of it in the wing, too tight or slack and your instrument will feed back. Once the pickup is fitted correctly you shouldn't notice any clicks or thumps, if you do you get clicks when your not playing you could have a faulty Piezo. The J Tone's are pretty unbreakable P/ups though and IMO are about the best for the price.

Fantastic! Aluminium Upright Basses are warm, punchy and easy to amplify, so apart from the killer looks its going to be a tone monster as well. A good investment I'd say, no matter how many brownie points its going cost you.