Bartolini Answers and Solutions

If you do not have some soldering experience and have not installed or replaced pickups or electronics before, we advise you to have a good technician do it...

In our testing of every pickup before it is shipped, we use a mechanical "picking tester". This device picks a short length of plain string (0.017...

The typical shell that houses a magnetic pickup has a "wall thickness" of 1/16 inch or 0.063 inch or 1.6 mm. The magnetic structure (bar, polepiec...

The tone of an instrument is heavily influenced by the position of the sensing bars or polepieces of the pickup along length of the string. The closer the p...

Pickup shapes are usually associated with the instruments that first used them - P-Bass* pickups, J-Bass* pickups, Music Man* pickups, etc - and with the so...

These notes were in the last 3 pages of the old "brown catalog" first printed about 1982. When the pick releases the string it causes two ripple...

In most electric instruments the string ripple is sensed by magnetic pickups. These pickups usually consist of magnets, coils, core materials and/or polepie...

The length of string sensed by the pickup contributes strongly to its tonal quality of the pickup. This "window" through which the pickup "lo...

This table shows fret positions for bass fretboards calculated without taking string stretch into consideration. Please check Measurements and Calculations ...

We get this question a lot because a lot of people associate AlNiCo and ceramic with particular tone qualities.  But these qualities are only true in very s...