Description
Every upright player knows the frustration: mics feed back on stage, and cheap piezos flatten out your tone the second you switch from plucking to bowing. Ned Steinberger and David Gage set out to fix that with the Realist, and this version swaps in a wood element for an even more natural response.
The idea was simple — build a transducer that could handle pizzicato and arco with equal honesty, so you’re not riding your volume or tone knobs every time you pick up the bow. That kind of consistency matters when you’re moving between styles in a single set, whether you’re walking a bassline one minute and bowing a legit part the next.
- Wood element construction for a warmer, more acoustic-accurate voice
- Designed to reproduce both pizzicato and arco playing with even, balanced output
- Simple, dependable design — no complicated setup or extra gear needed
- Built to be affordable without cutting corners on tone
Recording engineers and working musicians alike have noted how evenly this pickup handles the transition between plucked and bowed passages — something a lot of piezo systems just can’t do convincingly. If you’ve put in the hours shaping your sound on the instrument itself, the Realist is built to carry that voice through your amp instead of getting in the way of it.
A straightforward, road-tested solution for upright bassists who need their real tone to translate live and in the studio.
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