About Bass pickup installation
Why was the Pickup set in the leg of Bridge?
Our pickup system has been developed based on an exhaustive study on how the sound of double bass is born, from strings throughout to the body.When bass players give the vibration to the strings, its vibration goes through the bridge to the top board, which then causes the sound wave of the air in front. The lowest registers come out boosted around the inner side of top board and f-hole. The top board shows its complicated vibration manners changing its most vibrating part depending on the register, but it produces such a flat and balanced sound when heard in a bit distance from the instrument.
It is this top board that has the largest influences to the quality of the tone. In view of energy transmission, the energy given by the player firstly goes through strings, then it goes into bridge, top board, and finally it comes out as the instrument’s sound. Attention must be paid to the fact that the energy goes in opposite way as well, such as the sound loud around the instrument vibrates the top board and this energy goes up through bridge to the strings. Many players must have experienced this opposite feedback especially in loud live sessions.