Hear Kai Eckhardt on the Hotwire J-Stack Pickups!

Hear some of the possible sound variations!

A bass can only sound as good as the pickups installed! It´s a fact. We have been experimenting for a long time and then decided that we wanted our own...

In the year 2000 we got together with some bass pros and pickup designer Basscultur and started to develop the Hot Wire Pickup range. The first ones were hot stacked humbuckers in a single coil format, with a high output, totally shielded and potted. Hot Wire Pickups deliver the typical Vintage-Sound of the sixties, but without annoying noise.

These passive pickups pick up everthing the player gets out of the instrument. Happy customers declare that they are really HOT and aslo work with active electronics. You wil appreciate it when you are sitting at the computer with the bass, working in the studio, or playing on a stage with a lot of lighting.

HotWire Pickups fit any bass, we make them to order and sell them separately as well. HotWire Pickups upgrade any bass and can be ordered from us directly. 

The PREZZ delivers the real Rock Bass Sound! We have worked long on this one! The sound is reminiscent of gthe good old originals of the fifties and sixties. We use ceramic magnets on steel poles, and wind 0,056 wire on 7kohm per coil. Availalbe for four, five or six string basses.

The Pee-Jay combination is an all-time favourite giving you the best of both worlds: the phat rock tone, a crisp slap sound, and a great walking/Jaco tone!

We make the Hot Wire MM for four and five stringers keeping the MM sound of the late seventies in mind. It works great with our Pee and Jay pickups and really shines in combination with our Retro MM-Electronics!

For maximum punch and variable sounds we created the Hotwire FUNDERBUCKER, a Soapbar with Split-Coil Function. It was designed for our Funderbird bass, but it works gereat in other bass too! Sounds like a great bass in singel coil mode, select the neck pickup and the humbucker position, you get pure rock n roll - already in passive mode!

For the real "Boutique-Experience" we can make wooden pickup covers. For the same wood as the neck, or the vody, and in the same finish. We can also make a special pickup in a custom size if needed. 

Watch out for theMOTHERBUCKER...! As there are "Sixties" and "Seventies" Pickup positions, we thought it would be cool to have those in one pickup! The Motherbucker in soapbar size was used in our Flash model first, now also in the Inlaw. The comination fits any bass if you are not afraid to do some wood working!

The Motherbucker Pickup sports two stacked J-coils in one cover, and a mini 3 way switchtaking you from 60ies "Jaco" to 70ies "Marcus" and also have a real phat tone when all coils are on!

Same with the neck pickup: two different J-sounds plus a phat P-tone when all coils are on. With neck and bridge pickups you have accces to virtually all vintage 7ender sounds and then some!

Brand new: the W-BUCKER! W stands for WOW! Looks real dangerous and is used on our Inlaws. It pumps a lot of power for a real loud passive tone!  If ordering, let us know the string spacing required.

On request, we use other makers´ pickups.  we have had good experiences with Harry Häussel, Seymour Duncan, Sadowsky, Delano, Nordstrand, Hansen (Lakland), Bartolini...