Could you tell us about the custom pickups and electronics utilized in Skjold basses?
My pickups are custom made to my specifications and use a split-coil design for humbucking. They are modeled after vintage specifications and give a very good representation through the entire frequency spectrum. They use rare earth magnets (neodymium) which produce a very clear top end and full bass response. The C-4 uses two of my regular pickups in the same housing. This focuses the midrange which is best for fretless and passive applications. When used with the selector switch, you can go from the neck pickup to both in series to both in parallel and to the bridge pickup. This gives you four distinct passive tones. John East makes all the preamps I use except for the custom Audere. The best things about the East preamps are their flexible and musical properties. I wanted the broadest and most transparent preamp I could get in order to use several different wood combinations and still offer the player ultimate control over the sound of their bass. The Pro Deluxe preamp has the frequ
