Bass Pickup & Preamp Demos

big blade pickup in a MTD Saratoga – 1-19-16

A quick pre-NAMM 2016 demo of our new Big Blade pickups installed in a MTD Saratoga Bass.

big blade preview – final revision – 1-14-16

A run-through of many of the tones possible with our brand new Nordstrand Big Blades Pickups!

big blades sneak peek – 11-5-15

Carey shows off the brand new big blades.

DL vM5 tracking bass for a Moba Jones tune – 8-2815

This a video of Carey playing a tune that he and his song writing/music partner (aka Moba Jones) are working on. (This tune is in a rough mix state.) Carey is using a Nordy DL vM5 (Dan Lutz Signature) bass. The pickups are a BigMan and a NP5 – both located right up on each other in their “proper” locations. For this particular track, Carey used the BigMan only in parallel mode with the controls all flat. Carey tracked directly into a UAD Apollo Quad using the Neve 1073 Unison plugin only. He added a dbx 160 plug for compression on the bass. (Carey comments that the mix had plenty of UAD plugs to make it sound the way he likes it!)

Carey Nordstrand and Dan Lutz show off the new DL VM5 (Dan Lutz Signature Bass) – 8-5-15

Dan is elated with the outcome of this new design and wanted to really show off the wide array of tones available from the bass. Carey Nordstrand captured the audio in his studio using a UAD Apollo straight into ProTools.
Both Dan and Carey were extremely stoked at the wide array of tones the new DL VM5 can cover.

DL vM5 Nordy Bass Tone Walkthrough – 7-14-15

Premiere bassist Dan Lutz gives a walkthrough of exactly what his new Nordstrand DL vM5 signature bass can do in terms of tone. The bass has a BigMan and a NP5 pickup, and between the two an entire world of killer tones are possible. This was recorded direct through a Noble tupe pre/di and Carey sweetened it up a little in Pro Tools with Neve 1073 channel and Ampex tape stereo bus plugins (UAD).

Dan Lutz vM5 Quick Tone Teaser Preview – 5-28-15

Before the DL vM5 was released, Carey and company couldn’t quite contain their excitement and released this teaser vid of Dan manhandling the vM5.

Nordy Modern vJ5 – Big Singles Sound Demo – 5-4-15

Here’s a demo of a new Nordy vJ5 Modern loaded with Big Singles. The playing examples were all recorded direct to Pro Tools through a Universal Audio Apollo.

Nordstrand nP5 Pickup Sound Demo – 4-28-15

A quick sound demo of a Nordstrand np5 pickup in a Nordy vP5 bass. This particular pickup has Alnico 3 magnets. The playing example was recorded directly into Pro Tools.

Carey Nordstrand Design (CND) Pickups in Ibanez SR Basses– 4-20-15

In this video Carey Nordstrand talks about the new Carey Nordstrand Design, (CND) Pickups that will now be standard equipment, OEM, on select Ibanez SR Series basses.

Nordy vJ5 with NJ5 Pickups – 3-30-15

Demo of a killer Nordy vJ5 loaded with Nordy NJ5 70’s wound pickups.

Nordy vPJ5 Fretless Demo – 3-24-15

A quick little sonic demo of a custom vPJ5 we recently completed. This bass is passive with Big Split and NP5 pickups. Controls are volume, volume, and tone. The body is ash and the neck is one piece maple with white veneer lines. It weighs 7.73 pounds. Color is Fiesta Red with a matching headstock.

Nordy NP5 Pickup Demo – Also Nordy vP5 Bass – 1-12-15

Here’s a demo of the NP5 pickup in Carey’s personal vP5 bass.

Nordstrand Fat Stack 5 Pickup Demo – 11-25-14

Carey demonstrates the tonal versability available out of Nordstrand’s Fat Stack pickups.

Nordy vM4 with BigMan Pickup – 8-26-14

A demonstration of the Nordy vM4 bass with a BigMan pickup. This bass has a 2 band preamp as well.

Nordstrand Pickups Dual Blade 5 Neo Demo – 2-26-13

Ian Enderson tests our newest bass pickups, the Dual Blade 5 Neos. The whole clip is recorded with the bass in passive mode through a Streamliner 900 DI into ProTools. These are dual coil blade style pickups with neodymium magnets (no need to worry about pole spacing!) with the outside coils optimized for splitting. In split mode they deliver a great J type tone.

Al Turner – Burnin – 7-21-11

Al “The Burner” Turner trying out his new Nordy vJ5 before a rehearsal with Cheryl Lynn

Mo Plays the OLP – 3-14-11

Mo Mina plays the OLP 5 string MM style bass with Nordstrand’s new 2 band preamp.

Josh Slaps the OLP – 3-14-11

Young Josh slaps an OLP 5 string MM style bass that has our 5.2 and a new 2 band preamp made as close as possible to the original 2 band SR preamp. (By the way, Josh has an injured index finger on his right hand so he can’t play fingerstyle til it heals.)