74 - The Confusing World of Bass Pickups - SOLVED Part 2

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Looking at bass pickups, but confused by all the terminology? There’s a whole world of mystery surrounding what pickups do and how they can affect your sound. Such a big subject requires a concise explanation, then, doesn’t it? In today’s episode Scott and Ian venture back into anorak territory on the topic of bass pickups. In this episode you’re going to learn: Why we’re not keen on Fender’s PJ pickup setupHow Leo Fender made waves the Music Man StingRayWhy Rickenbacker pickups hum constantl...

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0:00.0	Legendary.
0:10.5	Oh!
0:13.4	Well, this episode, obviously, the confusing world of pickups part two.
0:19.1	I thought it'd be awesome to talk about
0:20.9	what I got to do the other day.
0:23.1	Oh, please.
0:24.0	Yes.
0:24.2	That bass.
0:25.5	That bass.
0:26.5	Again, just in case anybody didn't hear it,
0:28.9	this bass played on this album, on this track.
0:35.3	You're a small town,
0:36.9	well, right? Yeah. You're a small town, girl.
0:39.1	For the voice as well, right?
0:47.4	Every wedding band bass player just groaned right now, dude.
1:02.9	And sort of like myself included, like there's a type of player, or there's, you know, a player out there that has played that song 800 million times over their lives and have a different relationship with it than you do, Scott Devine.
1:04.6	But I love that you love that song.
1:05.5	Do you love it?
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:10.9	Well, I do because of my experience the day, but it's funny, which I'll get onto in just one second, just one second. So if anybody's like, what experience? Just hang on. But just to your point,
1:17.0	I actually did play that song when I was 19 or 20 in a, in like a function band, like a corporate band.
1:26.7	I just started playing bass around sort of like 18, 19, right?
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