#Bartolini #MTD USA Pickups vs Bart CBJD-3 Pickups, Active & Passive - John East Uni-Pre preamp
🚨 Grab my customized Line 6 Helix product family presets here: https://seanfairchild.com/shop 🔥Check out my first commercially available bass instruction video! https://bit.ly/DoubleThumbing 0:00 Bartolini CBJD3, buffered 0:22 Bartolini CBJD3, passive 0:43 Bartolini Stock MTD USA (CBTA), buffered 1:08 Bartolini Stock MTD USA (CBTA), passive A direct in comparison between the stock Bartolini pickups that come in MTD USA basses (this one was a 2020 635-24) and Bart's CBJD3 inline split coil J aperture pickups. The MTD ones are roughly J aperture and underwound, but offset split coils in a reverse P configuration. The CBJD are in M5 shells and both of the inline coils are bridge-ward. The EasTone Uni Pre has a stereo buffer input, just as the MTD stock Bartolini preamp (NS3TMB) does. But unlike the Bart, has a full, true bypass before the buffer stage and after a passive tone control, so I'm able to compare the pickups with both buffered (not boosted, EQ flat, tone control all up) as well as in true passive mode. The stock MTD Barts are normally run through a stereo gain raising buffer and are thought to be very quiet without that buffer stage. My findings is that they're only about 2.8 - 3 dB quieter than the normal winding CBJD3 pickups.
🚨 Grab my customized Line 6 Helix product family presets here: https://seanfairchild.com/shop 🔥Check out my first commercially available bass instruction video! https://bit.ly/DoubleThumbing 0:00 Bartolini CBJD3, buffered 0:22 Bartolini CBJD3, passive 0:43 Bartolini Stock MTD USA (CBTA), buffered 1:08 Bartolini Stock MTD USA (CBTA), passive A direct in comparison between the stock Bartolini pickups that come in MTD USA basses (this one was a 2020 635-24) and Bart's CBJD3 inline split coil J aperture pickups. The MTD ones are roughly J aperture and underwound, but offset split coils in a reverse P configuration. The CBJD are in M5 shells and both of the inline coils are bridge-ward. The EasTone Uni Pre has a stereo buffer input, just as the MTD stock Bartolini preamp (NS3TMB) does. But unlike the Bart, has a full, true bypass before the buffer stage and after a passive tone control, so I'm able to compare the pickups with both buffered (not boosted, EQ flat, tone control all up) as well as in true passive mode. The stock MTD Barts are normally run through a stereo gain raising buffer and are thought to be very quiet without that buffer stage. My findings is that they're only about 2.8 - 3 dB quieter than the normal winding CBJD3 pickups.