Microphone Accessories

David Gage includes a plastic loop mount to mount the output jack of their Realist pickups to the tailpiece. Their solution is to fully remove the E string from the bass, thread the string through the loop, and allow the ball end of the string to hold...

It obviously depends on the music and the venue -- but nothing sounds more natural, when amplifying or recording your bass, than a microphone. Upright Bass pickups were, essentially, a compromise - developed for situations when a microphone wasn't...