{"id":2412,"date":"2012-10-11T21:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2020-12-16T00:59:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:59:21","slug":"ask-a-tech-upgrade-preamp-or-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/electronics\/pickup\/ask-a-tech-upgrade-preamp-or-pickups.html","title":{"rendered":"Ask a tech: Upgrade preamp or pickups?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Best Bass Gear customer was wondering whether he should upgrade his preamp or his pickups:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have a ESP LTD B206 bass that I am very happy with in every way except for the electronics. Would installing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/basslines-bass-preamps.htm\">Bassline<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/aguilar-preamp.htm\">Agulliar preamp<\/a> with the stock pickups improve my sound? If I can only afford to do one thing right now which would do more the pickups or the preamp?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking to upgrade your tone I would start with the pickups. The pickups are the most important part of the electronics, and the preamp is simply there to tweak the sound of your pickups.<\/p>\n<p>To figure out which pickups will fit your bass you should first measure the length and width of your neck and bridge pickup.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have the dimensions you should think about what kind of tone you are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you want a more vintage sounding instrument, or something really bright and articulate, or something focused on strong lows and low mids.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different tonal directions you can go when looking at upgrading your pickups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/aboutus\/evan.html\">Evan<\/a>, Best Bass Gear Tech<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a question for one of our Best Bass Gear techs? Ask away in the comments or send them an email to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:sales@bestbassgear.com\">sales@bestbassgear.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Best Bass Gear customer was wondering whether he should upgrade his preamp or his pickups: I have a ESP LTD B206 bass that I am very happy with in every way except for the electronics. Would installing a Bassline or Agulliar preamp with the stock pickups improve my sound? If I can only afford &#8230; <a title=\"Ask a tech: Upgrade preamp or pickups?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/electronics\/pickup\/ask-a-tech-upgrade-preamp-or-pickups.html\" aria-label=\"More on Ask a tech: Upgrade preamp or pickups?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,23,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13457,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/13457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}