Not wishing to cause strife,Yeah right :mrgreen:
And to a regular audience, you can fake-mud with it well enough.
I like the modern SG basses, especially with the trapezoid inlays. They look great.
Who needs a bridge pickup, anyway? :vader:
Not wishing to cause strife, but this bass beats an EB-3 in every respect.
The pre-'72 EB-0/3 is a wonderful bass that shines once you swapt the mud for a good single coil.Pre' 72 EB basses are wonderful. They do need electronics tweaking to sound great. Single coil works, shorting out one of the mud coils work too. I like to wind down the mudbucker and wind a hotter bridge humbucker. Ditch the vari tone and you're ready to go, great sounding and just wonderful playing instruments that weighs practically nothing.
Yeah, sure, after you chuck away half of the entrails, the bass sounds indeed better. Is that your definition of a "wonderful bass"? 8)
Last I heard, the Fender P just "worked" straight out of the box, no modifications needed.Did I just really write that or was my hand forced? Has my account been hijacked?
PS: Actually, the 1972-onward EB-3 basses are the more versatile models ...
You have so many good basses, you can use something a little cultish. That's what it is, a cult instrument.
I've been thinking about getting an EB-3..............You're killin' it for me.
That and stringholders with the generally superior two point bridge, just get rid of it all, let it swing!
Don't let him🙂 It's a wonderful experience once you dare try it out 8). Can't see why tinkering with the electronics is unholy either, I'm sure T bird owners have a specific pickup they like. Or dare I say, even replace the bridge?
I've been thinking about getting an EB-3..............You're killin' it for me.
I like the modern SG basses, especially with the trapezoid inlays. They look great.
My '76 EB3 (which I sold) only sounded good through a tube amp and a 4x12. My SG Bass sounds good in any amp, I recorded an album with it and you can go from Fender-ish tones on the bridge pickup to width and warmth on the neck. Great basses!
Ha ha, that's a good point Uwe. I'd give one of my nuts for that discontinued Schaller bridge too. Still haven't found a replacement for the now concave bridge on my EB-1. Guess a hipshot could work since I've seen other EB-1's with them but the idea of a flat back full contact bridge on a carved top makes me shudder.
Is that your bridge by the way? I'll pay you dollars for it, they're almost as good as euros now you know.
That’d be great if it can fit an EB-1. Is he on Reverb or does he have a website?
You wish! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
He would have fallen to his knees and asked which one of his nuts - left or right - he could sacrifice for that TB Plus sound which would have driven his Marshalls mighty fine! :P :P
Mine’s the reissue with the humbucker so the bar bridge made for offset posts probably wouldn’t work then. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for an evertilt.
You wish! It's got the TB Plus bobbin construction but with the wide coil separation it doesn't sound like one. And its output pales in comparison to a real mudbucker.
My Super 400 Acoustic is "just" medium scale. Sound wise, I notice that less on that bass than on my electrics.
Wish-wash-wosh! It doesn't sound quite like a real TB+, yes, but it shares the characteristics. And the output of a mudbucker is mostly one frequency, while the TB+ covers a broader spectrum. The TB+ just lets you hear more of the bass, with a mudbucker you hear mostly the mudbucker - it doesn't make much of a difference on what it is planted.
For the record: Of course, a mudbucker is a force of nature and worthy of cultish reverence plus nice to have in the arsenal. The amount of 60ies and 70ies home hifis through which you could actually hear what was being played through a muducker is limited though. :mrgreen:
I have large hands, so a long scale fretless is more comfortable to play for me, with a short scale I need to adjust a little, especially in the higher registers.
Stanley Clarke has huge hands, plays an upright like a mandolin, and still prefers 30" basses. If guitar players of all sizes can manage the in the solo region (not to mention violinists), then we should have no problem on a 30" bass. To me scale is about sound. If I wasn't a vintage snob I'd probably be very happy with a fanned fret 30-to-34" bass.
Carles Benavent on a fretless EB-2D, with Paco de Lucía.
https://youtu.be/RSYESgZM0NI