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Connecting a pickup

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2011-02-06 13:44

I recently bought a pickup to connect to the clarinet barrel. So far it's working fine and surprisingly better than expected (no bark of E/B, no hum even with high input, which are some problems others mentioned having).

I want to connect it to the bass clarinet neck too. This requires making a rod with threaded hole soldered to the neck for the pickup to thread into (there's a threaded hole in the barrel for the soprano clarinet).

The question is, where is it best to connect it, or does it even matter? At first I wanted to connect it at the bottom of the outer curve, but there's water gathering there sometimes so maybe better not? Maybe the side at that place is ok in spite of the water? How about the top curve, where the register tube is, will it be too weakening at the spot? Maybe it's not good there and cause some hiss from the register hole or anything like that? Anything else to consider? It's a tunable neck with a register key on it.

Thanks.

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