Carvin BK5 Bass

This instrument was built from a kitset from Carvin, hence the lack of a brand name decal. But it is effectively a Carvin B5.

I don’t use the active electronics much, for some reason I get better results with passive plus outboard amp modellers.

Here’s an mp3 of me playing a riff from Porcupine Tree and demonstrating the different sounds you get from blending the pickups and changing the coil tap on the HB2.

 

2019 Update: I have to confess I have modified the bass to be passive, and to feed each of the pickups to Left and Right of a stereo output socket. By default, a mono cord will get the output from the neck pickup. I’ve had a lot of success recently recording in stereo and processing the signals separately.