Magnetic Upright Bass Pickup - Designed by a Bassist - New Perspectives Music

This is a product I've been dreaming about making for decades.

Piezo pickups are basically unusable in live and loud volume scenarios. They are feedback monsters requiring you to EQ out your low end and tone. Simply put, if you wanna rock on the upright, loud, you need a magnetic pickup.

But there are so few options and the ones out there are often expensive and lacking - I've tried most!
So I designed the pickup I wished existed when I was out there playing upright bass in rock bands for a living.

Essential elements:

Hand made in the USA, using beautiful reclaimed and locally sourced wood

Passive, not active, well shielded and grounded individual coils, one per string

Extra large, Individually adjusting poles to perfectly blend volume between strings

Easy, non-marring mounting system - goes on and off in seconds

Durable, yet repairable and modifiable

Each pickup us wound with 42AWG copper wire to about 5.4K ohms resistance, shielded in copper tubing and topped with a 5/8" ceramic magnet with about 2lbs pull force.

With the included Allen key, the player has the ability to easily and accurately "dial in" the perfect pole positioning for their bass and playing technique. Check out the audio demo video attached here and be sure to check out the whole build video and story. youtube.com/timsway

I make and sell them in a few "flavors," but this listing is for the classic black.

NOTE: This pickup only works with metal core strings. If your strings are not gut or plastic, they are probably going to work, but there are some strings that appear to be metal but have a synthetic core and do not work. Check your brand to make sure (and if you can't , see if a magnet tries to stick to them. If it does, they'll work).

Strings known to work perfectly:

Corelli (I believe all variations)

Thomastik (I believe all variations)

Belecanto

Eurosonic

Pirastro (Flexocor Flat Chromesteel, Permanent, Jazzer)

D'Addario (Helicore, Prelude, Super Sensitive, Red Label, and more)

Kaplan

LaBella 7710N, 7710T, 7720, 7720S

Jargar

Pirastro Passione

And many more. Read the label or contact the manufacturer

Strings known to NOT work with this pickup:

Any gut or synthetic gut string

Evah Pirazzi

Pirastro Obligato

Zyex

RotoSound

Innovation Super Silver

LaBella SuperNil

Aquila

Kolstein

Heritage
Feel free to contact me directly to ask any questions.