Well, Paul, you were right!
Thank You, Werner. I've NEVER understood resonant frequency, vis-a-vis pickups, until reading your post.
I would like to explain myself a bit. The reason I value these discussions (including my friend Bob Novy) is that I always wanted to know WHY.
I got taken to cleaners early on, when well meaning friends said I just had to use an XYZ bass or an ABC amp, . . . because that's what so & so uses ! Of course I sounded terrible. I made myself a vow to educate myself, because the sound I heard in my head was going to come from other products. And those other products were built by professionals who all had to obey the same laws of physics as everyone else. Once I at least began to understand the language, I made progress in leaps and bounds.
--Adjusting my action was nothing like the WRONG things most people told me.
--The way to make a loud, clean, bass rig was NOTHING like most people told me.
And on and on. But when I began to ask professionals questions where they could see I was trying to be informed, the heavens opened up, and I'm in their debt. This process is repeated over and over in this forum, and the Wickershams have made themselves graciously available way beyond what most do. But there are lots of good people out there who have helped me.
Since my ears were that worrisome to me in that I could hear way too much, getting the technical hurdles out of the way allowed me to just play.
I sounded better, so I sounded better.
Joey
