Author Topic: Variation on the Sliding Pickup. (Read 360 times)

jazzyvee · « **on:** March 24, 2013, 04:39:51 PM »

jazzyvee

sonicus · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2013, 04:58:06 PM »

Very interesting Jazzyvee !

Who is the builder may I ask ?

811952 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2013, 05:24:41 PM »

I like that concept quite a lot.

jazzyvee · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2013, 05:28:42 PM »

Sorry but your guess would be better than mine I saw it when I was browsing a bass page on Facebook but it didn't name the builder.

Jazzyvee

jagerphan84 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 24, 2013, 06:23:11 PM »

It's made by Spalt.

pauldo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 24, 2013, 07:02:10 PM »

Innovative!
Be fun to test ride it.

bigredbass · « **Reply #6 on:** March 24, 2013, 09:36:45 PM »

Of course, I look forward to the discussions in the Spalt Forum regarding which 'tonewood' is best for fabricating the little pickup arm for that 'FAT' sound, if it wouldn't sound better if it was hinged on the other side of the body, and 'if I put a Seymour Quarter-Pound Jazz in it instead of that Bart, will it void my warranty?'

J o e y

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2013, 04:51:20 AM »

Will the quarter pound be long enough to reach all strings? This looks like a 6 (or more) string PU and its magnet is probably a bar instead of rods like regular jazz PUs...

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2013, 05:01:22 AM »

Over the Top?

Look at this The Beast hybrid guitar/bass, can't say a thing on its look, but it is certainly bold.

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2013, 05:01:35 AM »

Over the Top?

Look at this The Beast hybrid guitar/bass, can't say a thing on its look, but it is certainly bold.

http://www.spaltinstruments.com/instruments/custom-work-624-conventional/other/

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2013, 05:16:17 AM »

There is something odd on building a top guitar to just look like a (s)crap one, but their totem instruments have a provocative and distinct look, no doubt about it. Very artistic, loved that danger/hazardous guitar

http://www.spaltinstruments.com/instruments/totem-resintops/2006/#

sonicus · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2013, 04:02:40 PM »

Ok , I checked out The Beast LOL___

SO what is a SUSTAINIAC ? (my spell check software does not like it )LOL ,, Tell me tell me if you think you know. Is it HIP ,,,,,,, may be even a HIP TRIP ? A variation of a compressor?

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2013, 08:30:01 PM »

Apparently, the Sustainiac is the pick-up with the bar pole pieces. Blah blah, woof woof.....

Peter

JuancarlinBass · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2013, 09:17:29 PM »

I remember a Sustainiac ad on a Guitar Player mag flexi-disc like... 25 or 26 years ago

Some sort of electromechanical device that read the note you' re playing and provided a vibration in equivalent frequency that made the string keep going... or something like that.

Back then it seemed hip.. maybe hipper than hip, but... what is hip?

oddmetersam · « **Reply #14 on:** March 26, 2013, 05:39:06 AM »

My bandmate in Sizemo, Micah Ball, has a Sustainiac that he so far only uses in our subterranean studio. Yes, it has a clamp that fits on the end of the headstock and it's connected by a cord to a floor unit. I admit I haven't checked it out up close because he's got so much stuff in his arsenal that between him and our madcap drummer I've got my own hands full.

I do know that when the thing is activated it interacts with vibrations emanating from the guitar and somehow amplifies/excites things so that you can have virtually infinite sustain. With all the other stuff he goes through the net result sounds alternately like a MOOG, a theremin, an Indian tampura drone and an electric banjo on steroids...if any of that makes any sense.

No, we've yet to record any music with that thing....