The Last Bass Outpost

Quote from: BklynKen on April 08, 2021, 07:58:40 PM
Too bright? Color me intrigued.

Uh yeah, IIRC saw something about that on TB (not like we can check atm).

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Oh and on the subject of Traynors ... one complaint I've seen from ppl regarding the YBA200, is they are too bright. Had mine connected to a Trace 215 this week and my guitarist requested I wind back the low end.

QuoteI would be surprised if they weren't the same as ones the Epiphone uses.
It just doesn't make sense that a Chinese company all of a sudden makes large quantities of this pickup without a large order of a big company (such as Epiphone) as an initial motivation.
It's not that the market gave a signal that there would be a huge demand for a sixties repro thunderbird humbucker without a vehicle such as the Epi VP.

And if the mass produced chrome and nickel cased repro humbuckers are not going into Epi basses ... where are they going?

I had a pair of 9k Chinabuckers in an Epi PRO-IV, which were certainly a step up from the original electronics. They went with the bass when it was sold. They sounded pretty decent, but lacked much of the 'throat' of a Thunderbucker. I raise the (single) pup 'danger close' to the strings.

Konichiwa

This is from an email received from the owner of EY Guitar Parts (retailer of the 'Chinabuckers').

'The pickups are from the same factory, who offer them to Gibson, and they are all same with Gibson ones, and just no logo on them'.

Make of that what you will. It was well before the introduction of the Epi VP/760s.