who makes a good SBA tenor neck?

[hornstar]

I want to have the option to go electric, and use gnarly pedal effects, for certain musical situations. so far, my experience is that only a neck pickup will avoid the problems of feedback etc when putting a mic through a guitar pedal. so, I figure buy the neck and installed a neck pickup.

who makes a good neck for a SBA tenor?

thanks for your help.

[sessionsax]

Selmer makes a Ref 36 neck that seem like it would fit the bill. I think Saxquest has a few of em.

[Lenny]

The tenon diameter of the Ref 36 necks is much closewr to a late Mark VI. Much smaller than most SBA's that I have seen which tend to be even wider than early VI's. One resson why the Ref 36 doesn't really seem like its modeled that closely on an SBA.

I would love to find an SBA neck myself since I tried one once on my 5 digit VI and it was great.

Contact Madd Duran , maybe Gloger can make one to fit those dimensions.

[Dr G]

I want to have the option to go electric, and use gnarly pedal effects, for certain musical situations. so far, my experience is that only a neck pickup will avoid the problems of feedback etc when putting a mic through a guitar pedal.

Feedback problems are more an issue of placement with respect to the mains and the monitors. The other problem is that if your monitors are loud and the soundman is notching the eq to eliminate feedback, when you sweep the eq with the "gnarly effects" you add back the freq's that are the culprit.

Have you tried a clip-on bell mic? Do you wear earplugs? :wink:

[Ro]

Just a thought, but if you plan to buy a neck to drill and place a pickup on, I would go with the CHEAPEST one that fits. The quality of the neck should not matter much if you are distorting your sound through fuitar pedals.

[Dr G]

Hmmm, no, I respectfully disagree. Intonation still counts. :cry:

[shmuelyosef]

I play often in LOUD R&R situations with a clip-on mic...it's not even fancy (a AT Pro-35 with a belt clip preamp). Cost a lot less than a neck plus pickup plus labor to install. I use it often with a WAH pedal and have no problem if I think about it as they are setting up the stage. You have to pay attention to where you stand and where the stage monitors are. If you have one pointed at your side, you will have feedback problems. However, in small clubs where I do my own sound, I find that I can stand right in front of my amp (only way I can hear myself through the earplugs) if I put it on a tilt-back stand, or up on a post, and still get no feedback.