The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: uwe on December 02, 2008, 09:46:22 AM
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Does anybody have a schematic of an early EB-2 and how the then-mudbucker with the black plastic cover with the pole piece screws in the middle (not the original singlecoil) is constructed? I'm asking because my luthier and I noticed today that the mudbucker of my resurrected blondie (which was rewired) has issues. I sounds out of phase (it is not wired that way, that was checked) and the magnetic field is all weird: As you move the string away from the polepiece screw the signal gets stronger instead of weaker. Currently, the bass sounds as if played through a broken compression stomp box - something is wrong. Possibly an issue with the magnets.
Uwe
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Give me 5 minutes.
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Here you go. The copy I got from Kalamazoo in 1983, with a date of 1960. Close enough I hope.
The construction should not change for the pup - it should be wired in series. Maybe double checking the magnets is in order.
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By the way, when you are poking around in there, what are your coil bobbins made of? I think they should be thin gray fiberboard with the coils wrapped in black tape (not modern electrical tape but an almost paper material).
Maybe Jules has been keeping track but I think the first few years were constructed the same, but they switch to plastic bobbins in the mid-60s.
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Terribly busy with work right now, the usual Christmas rush plus litigation work from the financial crisis coming in, but I wanted to slip in a quick "Vielen Dank!!!", very helpful info that is!
Uwe