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Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« on: September 13, 2012, 02:16:20 PM »
I just got an SB450 and it has low string output on the E and G strings. Very strange to me. Its a later bass with the the bigger black humbucker style pickups.What could be causing this? any Thoughts?? :-\
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2012, 06:01:44 AM »
The magnetic field of those humbuckers is a bit narrow. File the saddle slots of the E and G deeper or switch the saddles around so that E and G are lowest. You'll get there. It can be fixed, especially on the front pup.
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2012, 12:06:20 AM »
Tryed thr string height suggestion. Worked a little bit. Gonna try a badaass two instead of the schaller roller on it. will see if that works....
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2012, 04:43:56 AM »
Quote from: weekend warrior on September 15, 2012, 12:06:20 AM
Tryed thr string height suggestion. Worked a little bit. Gonna try a badaass two instead of the schaller roller on it. will see if that works....

It might help if you narrow the string spread on the Schaller roller. 
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2012, 05:00:05 AM »
Is there room for a "Nail That Tone modification" as seen with Mudbuckers who suffer from the same narrow magnetic field?




Just put a bent nail or Allen key on the side to widen the magnetic field.
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2012, 09:49:04 AM »
Hmnnnnnn....
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2012, 06:20:55 AM »
I had no idea a Schaller roller bridge was on it!
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2012, 08:36:52 AM »
It wouldn't be the original bridge, would it? Did the Schaller roller bridge even exist back then?
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2012, 10:08:12 PM »
It had the shitty two poster on it originally.Someone pulled the posts as you see and doweled the holes. It had a badassI on it when i got it.Thank god it was sitting on top and not routed for it.I've been tinkering with it and got it sounding pretty even.Its a smoking player and if it weighs 7 pounds i'll be shocked.Ive been thinking about routing this for a vintage Tbird set up. Thunderbuckers with trim rings.I think it would send the bass right over the top.
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2012, 10:27:38 PM »
heres a full shot of the bass
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2012, 10:46:40 PM »
Yup, the early SBs still had the two point. And even though - weighing words carefully here - it is such a well thought out and practical concept, as Dave always says, WITH A STRINGHOLDER IT NEVER CAME WITH OF COURSE, it does have its, let's say inherent limits. Perfection, one might say, fatefully stranded on the unlikelihood of the string pull of a long scale. Unforseeable, really.

SBs are fine basses (especially with the 3 point Holy Immaculate Trinity Bridge they came with later), but I'm not allowed to say that here. Powers that be insist that they sound dead.
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2012, 01:35:00 PM »
A dozen or so years without the tailpiece was just a slight oversight, that's all.
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2012, 01:40:33 PM »
Quote from: Dave W on September 19, 2012, 01:35:00 PM
A dozen or so years without the tailpiece was just a slight oversight, that's all.

Unforseeable, really.
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2012, 11:15:13 PM »
And i thought the rick bridge design was flawed.....
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Re: Low output on the E and G strings on my SB450
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2012, 07:49:56 AM »
Some of us never had problems with the 2-point. We must lead charmed lives.
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