{"id":122,"date":"2005-07-24T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2005\/07\/24\/Carvin-BK5"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T00:37:42","slug":"carvin-bk5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/carvin-bk5\/","title":{"rendered":"Carvin BK5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carvinguitars.com\/kits\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gear\/CarvinBK5.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carvin BK5 Bass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This instrument was built from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carvinguitars.com\/kits\/\">kitset from Carvin<\/a>, hence the lack of a brand name decal. But it is effectively a Carvin B5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-380\" width=\"480\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-1.png 688w, https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-1-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-1-676x481.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t use the active electronics much, for some reason I get better results with passive plus outboard amp modellers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"\/mp3\/bk5a_pickups.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>2019 Update<\/strong>: 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&#8217;ve had a lot of success recently recording in stereo and processing the signals separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t use the active electronics much, for some reason I get better results with passive plus outboard amp modellers. Here&#8217;s an mp3 of me playing a riff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}