71 - The Confusing World of Bass Pickups - Part 1

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Hey, Scott here... and we’re back with another brand-new podcast for you! At some point, we all wonder what life would be like with different pickups in our bass. Yet it’s the ONE thing that most of us dare not mess with! Even to experienced bass players, terms like impedance, inductance, resonant frequency and ohmic load can make things pretty confusing. In today’s episode, we dig into some of the technical basics and get to grips with everything a bass player needs to know on the topic of p...

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0:00.0	What are you thinking?
0:01.0	Here's...
0:01.6	Tell me your problems.
0:02.3	Here's what I wonder.
0:03.2	Here's what I wonder.
0:03.8	What was the first pickup that you had experience with on a bass guitar?
0:09.9	What was the first pickup that you played?
0:14.5	A jazz style pickup, jazz style setup on a status bass. Do you say you say oh you did it dude you did you say status
0:26.2	yeah we say status yeah which is status status yeah it was like a ash bodied bolt on cheap status bass with jazz pickups that's the sort of like the first
0:43.0	sounds cool well that's the first one that i could play it like i took home but i was making
0:48.7	bases as well so i did have you know like experience with the bases that we were making as well.
0:56.9	Overwater, baby.
0:58.7	Do you let me switch up to see.
0:59.6	I'm going to have to switch this here off.
1:02.1	It's like I'm sitting in the sun right now.
1:04.5	Wait, that.
1:06.0	Dude, I would give anything to be sitting in the sun right now.
1:10.1	That would be, I would give anything to be sitting in the sun right now. I would be, I would give anything to be in a
1:13.3	warm place right now. Are you free? Is it, is it super cold in Minneapolis? We, we just got another
1:19.8	monster dump of snow too. I think overnight we got like five new inches of snow. It's insane.
1:25.8	This winter has been the snowiest winter. I mean, I don't know, but I'm going to just say it. It's insane. This winter has been the snowiest winter. I mean, I don't know, but I'm
1:30.2	going to just say it. It could just be crap. I think I've just been the headling so many
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