Is it me or do musician-related internet forums really, really suck? What a bunch of whiny jerks. People complain about Linux geeks alot and how snotty they can be, but I guarantee you that SOMEONE in an open source forum WILL help you. Musician forums seem to be primarily made up of 16 year old kids who want to download (bad) tabs, armchair quarterback musicians who are “in search of that perfect vintage tone that sounds perfect in my living room because I have never played out in my life” and the classic stuck-up Berklee jerks who shit on everything anyone ever says about a musician that didn’t play with Zappa, Mahavishnu, or Dream Theater.
I refuse to participate in these stupid forums, so I am going to ask my question here and maybe some of the bassists that cruise by my site will be able to answer it:
Has anyone tried using an active boost-only 2-band preamp (like an Aguilar OBP-1) with Bartolini single coil (9SU) Jazz Bass pickups? I’m concerned the noise might be a little much and preamps traditionally increase the noise in single coil pickups, but I as have single coils and a preamp in my Sadowsky (all Sadowsky-brand stuff) and the noise isn’t bad, I’d like to know if anyone had experience with this using other pickup and preamp configurations (not necessarily Bartolinis but perhaps another single coil)
