1973 Musicmaster Bass

[Dave W]

Jules has posted sound clips of a '73 Musicmaster Bass through a '64 B-15N. These had the same 6-pole pickup used on the Musicmaster guitar. Very nice.

[ilan]

Yep. I have a '78 that is awesome. Has that old-school tone. Nothing wrong with 6-pole guitar pickups... like Ric toasters, used on their basses and guitars.

[godofthunder]

 I have a oly white '78, nice little bass every once and a while I take it to rehersal, it sounds hot through my Ampeg B25!

[jumbodbassman]

Just about everything sounds good thru a 64 B15

[Chris P.]

A friend of mine bought a '71 in Daphne and it sounds great. My sonic blue Squier Musicmaster ('97) with matching headstock had a special four pole, but it was changed for a six pole. Nice too!!

We discussed it before:

Duesenberg bass humbuckers are six pole, Dano used one type of lipstick for guitar and bass, the new Gibson 335 Bass has a guitar humbucker, the Ricky toaster is for guitars too.

[Dave W]

A friend of mine bought a '71 in Daphne and it sounds great. My sonic blue Squier Musicmaster ('97) with matching headstock had a special four pole, but it was changed for a six pole. Nice too!!

We discussed it before:

Duesenberg bass humbuckers are six pole, Dano used one type of lipstick for guitar and bass, the new Gibson 335 Bass has a guitar humbucker, the Ricky toaster is for guitars too.

If you mentioned the Duesenberg bass pickups before, I missed it, nice to know.

Not sure about the Gibson 335 Bass, it's guitar-sized but has it been confirmed that it has 6 poles?

[Chris P.]

Yes, see my post about it in the Gibson section. The Gibsion R&D guy told me at the Musikmesse that it's a standard '59 humbucker. He was proud of the fact it worked so good for bass. Now they're busy making an EB-2 for next year.

Duesenberg now has some special split coils and singles for bass too, but their humbuckers have six poles.

[Dave W]

Thanks, Chris, too many threads for me to remember that it was a Gibson rep who said it.

[Chris P.]

No problem!

[drbassman]

I had a 72 Musicmaster years ago, sure wish I had kept it.