The process for making a pickup is relatively simple. However, the devil´s in the details!
How should the pickup sound? – Ha – first error! A pickup itself can´t sound no matter how complicated its structure may be, as Helmuth Lemme, a Munich “pickup guru” – electronics engineer, musician and author – never tires of emphasizing. The pickup as a sound transmitter is just one of many cogs for the specific sound of an instrument, albeit a not insignificant one. In the absence of better information, I have to agree with this opinion without comment. – so there´s no Voodoo!
Who doesn’t know the whirring sound – sometimes louder than the expected pure sound – that drives you crazy! Poorly shielded pickups might be responsible for this – this nerve-wracking situation is unlikely to occur with Bassrefiner pickups.
These are hand-wound, elaborately shielded (copper foil soldered to ground) and epoxed dual-coil humbuckers with matched magnets, either in Music Man (MM), J-Bass, P-Bass or soapbar style.
In contrast to established manufacturers, this characterization of the Bassrefiner pickups does not require pages of esoteric stuff which is very enjoyable to read in Lemmes book „Pickups, Potis & Co“ or to hear in Manfred Zollners „bullshit“-videos on his youtube-channel „Physik der Elektrogitarre“. So – influenced by this you won´t find any „Geschwurbel“ here on my website.
The secret of making great pickups? Well, it´s all about Know How to design the customers expected sound – but secret?
There are as many „dream-sounds“ as there are bassists. So if you want me to wind a custom pickup for you according to your ideas let me know – supporting your dreams would be a pleasure to me!
Links to a very big amount of research work by Helmuth Lemme and Manfred Zollner can be found when pressing the ‚links‘ button at the main menu.