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Gibson Basses / Re: Ripper converted to a G-3?
« on: July 03, 2013, 06:08:01 AM »
Got a G1, love the pickup (always thought it was a humbucker until reading through the fly guitars info page),
but i have always wondered if the bass would sound better with a glued neck. I can easily slip a slice of
pizza into that neck pocket gap.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson scale length explained (I hope)
« on: June 22, 2013, 08:11:55 AM »
Quote from: 4stringer77 on June 22, 2013, 06:34:50 AM
amptech, TI jazz flats also have a .106 E string that come in the 32" scale set.
http://www.juststrings.com/toi-jf324.html

Oh; thanks - but I do like the feel and sound of the thin ones. For my shortscale gibson's, .100 is about as thick as i go.
I have a .100 set of chromes on my fuzztone (with mod-bar) and a three point bridge, intonates fine.

But I like the sound of the thin Thomastik's better, the scale was just not 'short enough' on the two point.

I'll probably put Thomastik's on my whole collection the day I can afford it. I dug out a 32" epiphone 1820 from the closet the other day,
strung with thomastiks - 1995 vintage. They still tuned and sounded fine, amazing strings.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson scale length explained (I hope)
« on: June 22, 2013, 02:55:17 AM »
I have experienced some issues with my '67 eb-3. The old 2 point bridge is usually ok to intonate, but strung with Thomastik Jazz flats (round core)
the low E can't reach perfect intonation at the 12th. fret. I think it's .93 or .95, quite thin. I usually start intonating the G string with octave at 12th, and when tunig it i use the E at 9th. fret (G string) as reference for the other strings. Nevertheless, I'd have to file down the contact point where the bridge meets the post to be able to intonate the low E according to 12th. fret, the allen screw is all loosened but It's not quite there.

Anybody with similar issues using thin strings? It's really interesting to read this thread, maybe I should try to compensate slightly for the off-scale length and end up with better intonation...

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Gibson Basses / Re: Does anyone here care about 5 strings?
« on: June 20, 2013, 07:04:35 AM »
Ah, just another little brother of the EB-6.... :bored:

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Gibson Basses / Re: EB-OF at Olivia's
« on: June 19, 2013, 03:26:36 PM »
I think this one has been relisted several times.
I bought an EB0F from england last summer, and there was also this bass and another one around at the bay at the same time. Mine was heavily modified and listed as EB0, but I remember the other two was listed at a high starting bid.
If i remember correctly, even higher than the new  (now ended) listing. I searched for photos of the fuzztone circuit (to restore my own) and came over this listing as well as other EB0F´s. Not many made, but not a bass for everyone, I suppose.

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Gibson Basses / Re: So clue me in - Triumph content
« on: May 25, 2013, 06:07:27 AM »
Quote from: uwe on May 24, 2013, 09:06:49 AM
Hey, you stole my settings then!!! As an 18 year old that was, wait for it, full presence, full treble, full high mids, full low mids and, yes, you guessed it, full bass.  :rolleyes: And I played D'Addario XL Reds too.  :mrgreen: 18 year olds are kind of alike.  8)

Oh, i used them too, but on my ricky 4001. I think i used a couple of sets then they stopped making them, at least they
were not available in Norway. Then, a couple of months ago, I heard an instrumental song our band recorded some 12 years ago - a slow, strange melody with only bass and guitar - and I just had to get one of those XL red sets again. Though not very versatile, they do have that nice piano tone that sounds really good in the right song, at least on a bright bass like the rick.

If they start making them in flats I might try it on my eb-3 :)

Anyone who have used them on eb shortscales with good results?

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Gibson Basses / Re: Need pix of the brothers!
« on: May 15, 2013, 11:50:07 AM »
I usually end up givin´them the finger when rocking my grabber, can´t help it!
A couple of shots of my ac/dc cover band in 2008. The grabber is perfect for hard rock!

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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...
« on: April 20, 2013, 05:08:59 AM »
And a couple of close-ups!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIwaYwbjF3M&feature=player_detailpage
Nice plec-playing here.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...
« on: April 20, 2013, 04:54:50 AM »
Is the EB well running dry already?

Holdsworth fans should know this singer well, and Mick Moody is there as well.
Nice EB0F playing here, although at 4:26 parts of the pickguard is modded or taped over.
Not many EB0F clips from the early days around.

Also note the dog sitting between the orange cabs, the trippin´ audience and a purple marshall that matches Paul´s
pants nicely :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFoXgAMgS-Q&feature=player_detailpage

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Gibson Basses / Re: Jack Bruce, an EB3 and a diode.
« on: April 20, 2013, 03:25:43 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on April 19, 2013, 08:32:33 PM
The fuzz on my former EB-0F sounded terrible. Jack got the effect he wanted, and fortunately it sounded a lot better.

I put an arbiter fuzzface cct. in my EB0F, sounds better I think.
Rarely used though, but with the attack low you can use it as a boost to push the front end of the amp a bit.
I can see that the original ´maestro´cct. is not for all.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Novak's EB-AA and EB-BS
« on: April 20, 2013, 03:21:17 AM »
Quote from: 4stringer77 on April 18, 2013, 04:19:25 PM
That's why I disengaged the choke on my EB3. Why would you want to limit the pickup's full potential? Don't be shy about unleashing the 2D. Force your will upon the audience and they will learn to love the sound.


Everybody should try to disengage the choke, it´s wonderful!
My #1 EB-3 has the standard neck-both-bridge switch rather than 4 position.
Some might find it troublesome to balance the mud with the mini, but as described in earlier threads it can be done
with resistors if you don´t have a pickup winder.

I´m currently working on a mudbucker in minihumbucker size. Many have probably done this before, but still.
It´s just a downscale of the big sidewinder, with two alnico bars. The only dilemma is the bobbin size and
magnet wire thickness. If you reach for perfect balance using both pickups, maybe you´ll find that there is no point replacing the mudbucker after all.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Strange EB0
« on: April 16, 2013, 02:46:03 PM »
Quote from: dadagoboi on April 16, 2013, 02:33:24 PM
Judging by the size of the screws in the jack plate and cavity cover alone, the work was NOT done by Gibson

True, but the jack plate was listed as the only modification done (!)

Are we by the way sure this instrument was not made for just one purpose, to screw up the minds of people
on this forum?

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Gibson Basses / Re: Strange EB0
« on: April 16, 2013, 01:07:26 PM »

Guess I'm too stupid, but I just don't see it Dave... ???
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Nor can I... That ´line´you see, is it not just the grain?

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Gibson Basses / Re: Strange EB0
« on: April 15, 2013, 08:13:07 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on April 15, 2013, 07:25:52 AM
I don't think that sunburst EB-3 on flyguitars is a legit factory finish. It's a real Gibson EB-0 that was converted, it's a refin and there's zero evidence that the refin was done by Gibson. Routing templates have been around for decades now, no evidence that was done by Gibson.


I know, but I was hoping someone here (older than me) would agree that getting these parts (coil w. gibson nr, switch w/ 1-4 plate, pickup w/ chrome ring, pickguard etc) would be difficult in the mid sixties if you had no contact with the factory?
I mean, even the yellow wire tubing?

I don´t mean to ´EB-3 this thread´, but was it at all possible to buy original parts from Gibson back then?

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Gibson Basses / Re: Strange EB0
« on: April 15, 2013, 03:51:55 AM »
I still think it's tempting to suggest Gibson might have done this sunburst as a custom job.
I've been comparing it to the EB-3 (1963 sunburst) from the flyguitars site (borrowed a pic.)
and the colours are very similar. Even that checkering is the same, with that large pattern.

Of course, it does not prove anything, BUT the EB-3 is also possibly converted from an EB-0, by who? Gibson?
It sure is a rather professional routing job, and given the obviously old refin, could anyone buy Gibson bass mini-humbuckers
and also the GA-90 1C coil if they wanted to convert their EB-0's? Does not sound likely to me.

Of course, these days you can buy any part you like at any time if you got the dollars, and to learn
som 'quick checkering jobs' and ageing stuff is done rather easily on the internet too..
Maybe some punk's got a gibson sunburst shop in the basement, ageing cheap epi's??

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