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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: drbassman on September 08, 2011, 07:30:56 AM
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I've been wanting an EB-0 for my collection and didn't care if it were perfect. I found one I can buff up and play easily and bought with an offer. This is not a project, I bought it to play!
I'll share more when it comes in!
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/drbassman/eb0-1.jpg)
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Welcome to ze müd.
(http://www.motorcycle.com/images/content/Event/tn_07_Garson_Blitzkrieg_WWII_mcspeedmud.jpg)
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Cool bass Bill, enjoy it! ;D
I need one of these someday!
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Nice, and a two-point bridge to boot.
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Thanks guys! I really don't have enough mud in my life. At least the 2 pointer already has the necessary tilt in it to work properly, so I won't have to adjust it!
Actually, since I'm considering this a player (after some buffing) I was wondering if one of the Hipshot bridges would fit on this. I'll have to look, just for fun.
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Bill - welcome to the club! given your new group, I think you will find places to use it - definitely the most distinctive sounding bass I own. it's light, balances decently and is fun to play.
Gee, you have the NEW IMPROVED model bridge - mine has the old "bar" bridge...other than that and the Dimarzio pickup, they're clearly brothers.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Electric%20Basses/Gibson%20EB-0%201964/PB070018.jpg)
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Yeah, I love the older belvelled EB-0 bodies. Can't wait to play it, finish flaws and all!
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Nice bass Bill! I saw that one on ebay, sure does look like a nice player.
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Nice bass Bill! I saw that one on ebay, sure does look like a nice player.
Thanks Scott, I offered him $795 and he took it. I think I did OK.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjnOj9O16_I
(ps jump to 1.50 if you don't get quaint old English musica-hall humour - recorded the year I was born...)
btw... nice... very nice... 8)
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Thanks Scott, I offered him $795 and he took it. I think I did OK.
Bill I think you did better than ok ;D
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Bill I think you did better than ok ;D
Thanks Scott, we'll see how it looks in person.
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Looks great! Looks like the brother to mine. I paid $900.00 a few years back with the handrest missing so you did good in my opinion. I always thought of these as transition models, with the old handrest and the new ultra hip Tilt-o-matic bridge! ;D
(http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af119/Grog_03/1968GibsonEB-0.jpg)
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Looks great! Looks like the brother to mine. I paid $900.00 a few years back with the handrest missing so you did good in my opinion. I always thought of these as transition models, with the old handrest and the new ultra hip Tilt-o-matic bridge! ;D
(http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af119/Grog_03/1968GibsonEB-0.jpg)
Wow, yours is a beauty! Hope I can dress mine up as well. It will look nice next to my EB-3, if I ever get her done!!!!
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The EB0 lands on Thursday!
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Cool. I guess all the Gibson fans on this group have known this for years, but those early mudbuckers are the most outrageous pickups I have ever heard. It was a real revelation to hear that pickup in my EB-0 when I got it working right.
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Cool. I guess all the Gibson fans on this group have known this for years, but those early mudbuckers are the most outrageous pickups I have ever heard. It was a real revelation to hear that pickup in my EB-0 when I got it working right.
So true, nothing else like them.
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I'm looking forward to mine!
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The mud has landed. It's in well-used shape (scratches, dents, dins, PO's initials carved into the back, cigarette burn on the headstock) and will clean up nicely. No breaks or repairs and the neck is pretty straight. I'll check the truss rod when I have a minute. The Mesa loved the mudbucker and it really is in a class of its own when it comes to bottom end. It has rounds on it and it stills sounds like mud! No way it's a 68 like the seller said. The bridge, knobs and stenciled logo/flower pot say 70's to me. Anyone else think so? More later.............
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/drbassman/EB-0/DSCN0492_734-1.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/drbassman/EB-0/DSCN0493_735.jpg)
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It has rounds on it and it stills sounds like mud!
It is truely a trebless pickup, the only way to ad attack or treble is with adding another pickup. You can get kind of a plunky sound picking right near the bridge.
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It is truely a trebless pickup, the only way to ad attack or treble is with adding another pickup. You can get kind of a plunky sound picking right near the bridge.
Well, the other way to add treble is to put it through a fuzz! Then filter away! Well, that's my approach anyway...
Congrats on the excellent score!!!
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Well, the other way to add treble is to put it through a fuzz! Then filter away! Well, that's my approach anyway...
Congrats on the excellent score!!!
As Jake pointed out long ago, one of the best pickups to use with fuzz & overdrive effects, they take on a whole new life.
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Divine Mud and Holy Fallout!!! The Almighty Mud who created heaven and earth! He knoweth no language, yet his voice is heard ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl14xh4GSrc
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Hmmmmm
Looks like a '68 to me Bill, my since departed '67 EB3 had all those hallmarks.
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Hmmmmm
Looks like a '68 to me Bill, my since departed '67 EB3 had all those hallmarks.
Agreed - I think of '70s ones as having the mudbucker away from the neck or at the very least a mounting ring? My Melody Maker Bass seems to be a '68 and it has the ringless mudbucker like yours...
(http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7228/melodymakerbody3.jpg)
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Yea, though I walk through the shadow of the valley of Mud,
I shall fear no tweeters: for thou art all bass;
Thy chrome pickup cover and handrest, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a gig for me in the presence of my bandmates;
Thou annointest my head with Mud; my amp runneth over.
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Well, the other way to add treble is to put it through a fuzz! Then filter away! Well, that's my approach anyway...
It is truely a trebless pickup, the only way to ad attack or treble is with adding another pickup. You can get kind of a plunky sound picking right near the bridge.
Another option too - and it won't get you all the way out of the low hovering clouds - is to wire the coils in parallel. I had done my '69 EB-0 up like this, and the parallel mode would shave a couple hundred pounds off the sound. Still sounds decidedly "mudbucker", though (and that's a good thing, innit? 8)).
I don't get the impression you were looking to change/modify it, but I do have some details and sound-clips here for anyone curious: http://www.hillscloud.com/2011/06/1969-gibson-eb-0-pickup-coil-tap-and-series-parallel-modification/ (http://www.hillscloud.com/2011/06/1969-gibson-eb-0-pickup-coil-tap-and-series-parallel-modification/)
I also think it looks like a '68. Seems like a dead ringer for the one I had (I had sold it, since its sound overlapped so much with my '66 EB-2D and '68 EB-3). Your's is in much nicer shape, though.
Congrats!
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never been and probably at my advanced age, never be a mudder.... :mrgreen:
that being said i still own some. My 64 is actually a great bass although the bridge design is lacking...
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Still looks like a '68 to me also, check the pots................... That hand rest wasn't used on many basses after '67, I think they just used them up on the early '68s. Nice score! :toast:
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Adding treble to a muddie is oxymoronic. It is not meant to be and fiddling with creation.
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Can't be later than early 1970. I've never actually seen a solid headstock with the mudbucker by the neck later than 1969, but it did appear in the 1970 catalog.
The mudbucker certainly is capable of a little treble, it's just overwhelmed by the lows and low mids. If your preamp has enough cut and boost, you can find it.
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This is the only one I've come across, it's an early '70s EB-3, ( bought at Willie's) that belongs to a friend of mine. It looks identical to my '69 with the exception of the pickup ring on the mudbucker. Id like to say it's a '72 but I'd have to double check on that. I was surprised that it was dated early '70's with the tuners & other sixtys features.....
(http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af119/Grog_03/70sEB-3-1.jpg)
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I'm surprised to see a solid headstock example with the slothead era pickup ring. The 1970 catalog pic doesn't have the ring. In any case, we know by sometime in 1972 that the pickup was moved away from the neck. Doc's has no pickup ring and the pickup is at the neck, so I don't see how it can be later than 1970.
@Doc: is there a Made In USA stamped in the back of the headstock?
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I won't be doing any mods to this one. I am gonna clean her up a bit, but that's all. I'll check the pots to see. I could have been mistaken about the features and the year. My knowledge about the old EBs aint't the greatest.
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No Made in USA stamp.
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The Made In USA stamp appeared in early 1970. Another indicator yours is earlier.
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The Made In USA stamp appeared in early 1970. Another indicator yours is earlier.
Another detail I had forgotten. Thanks Dave.
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Yea, though I walk through the shadow of the valley of Mud,
I shall fear no tweeters: for thou art all bass;
Thy chrome pickup cover and handrest, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a gig for me in the presence of my bandmates;
Thou annointest my head with Mud; my amp runneth over.
;D :mrgreen: ;D
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;D :mrgreen: ;D
I forgot to say "AMEN BROTHER!"
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Muddy for nothing and the chicks for free!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkUbR4PGh9g
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That's plumbing the depths of the muddy waters for sure...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO4A6xx65WU
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;D