Finally bought an EB-0

[Pilgrim]

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.

[Barklessdog]

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.

[drbassman]

I'm looking forward to mine!

[drbassman]

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.............

[Barklessdog]

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.

[hieronymous]

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!!!

[Barklessdog]

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.

[uwe]

Divine Mud and Holy Fallout!!! The Almighty Mud who created heaven and earth! He knoweth no language, yet his voice is heard ...

[godofthunder]

 Hmmmmm
 Looks like a '68 to me Bill, my since departed '67 EB3 had all those hallmarks.

[hieronymous]

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...

[Pilgrim]

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.

[chromium]

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?  ).  

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/

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!

[jumbodbassman]

never been and probably at my advanced age,  never be a mudder....

that being said i still own  some.  My 64 is actually a great bass although the bridge design is lacking...

[Grog]

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! 

[uwe]

Adding treble to a muddie is oxymoronic. It is not meant to be and fiddling with creation.