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Gibson Basses / Re: 1 meg pots and TB Plus pickups
« on: August 02, 2016, 11:23:31 PM »
Quote from: Dave W on August 02, 2016, 01:43:46 PM
A tone control is a passive treble bleed circuit. With the tone control on 10, there's no bleed of treble frequencies to ground, no matter whether you're using 250k, 500k or 1meg pots. They're all equally as bright as the pickup will allow.

..As bright as the pickup and tone pot will allow is more correct. Correct me if this is not the case with TB+ circuits, but with the tone pot on 10 you bleed the trebles through whatever resistance your pot value is to ground via the tone cap. Not that I'd ever bother changing the value to 1M, because as you said the pot will have more like an on/off function and have a lot of useless travel, but it answers georgestrings' question.

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Gibson Basses / Re: 1 meg pots and TB Plus pickups
« on: August 02, 2016, 09:13:26 AM »
Quote from: georgestrings on August 02, 2016, 08:14:53 AM
I have read that going from 500k pots to 1 meg pots will bleed off less treble, and sometimes allow slightly more output - but I have no direct experience with this...


    - georgestrings

Slightly more treble if you use 1 meg (or just make your tone pot a 'no load on full' pot by scraping away the end of the resistance track) is possible, but i would not worry about doing this if more output is the goal. The pickup impedance is so much lower than the resistance of the harness/loom so that is mainly what the amp will see.

Just bypass the circuit and run the pickup(s) directly to the amp, and see if it's worth doing something.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Black pickup EB-0 on local CL $850
« on: July 31, 2016, 12:16:37 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on July 30, 2016, 02:29:44 PM
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/msg/5706654480.html

Misidentified as an SG bass, can't be as early as 1960,

Gruhn's guide gives me 1962 from that serial nr. I'd love to get that one, if it was'nt molested by that miserable piece of three legged metal.

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Fender Basses / Re: New from Fender
« on: July 27, 2016, 11:01:36 PM »
Quote from: dadagoboi on July 27, 2016, 05:25:26 PM

...I'm confused, I can imagine how anyone else reading this feels.

That's because guitar finish brings out feelings, and when we feel instead of think we become irrational :)

In the practical world, I'd agree that todays laquer works with/acts like that from the old days. I have only done about 10 finishes now with 'modern' nitro, and half of them was old gibsons where I did not remove the old laquer, so my foundation and experience might be questionable. One of the instruments had opaque car paint over the original finish and I was able to remove it and shoot modern nitro over old nitro. The only problem I ever had was a black modern nitro reacting with the black headstock paint on a '65 EB0.

I like old stuff allright, no problem admitting it - but it really does not bother me that modern nitro is not what it used to be as long as it looks good and is compatible with the old.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Another budget semi-hollow.
« on: July 26, 2016, 11:19:00 PM »
EY pickups, who makes the china t.bird pickup, also makes a very cheap firebird pickups that is a normal humbucker with two polepieces
and alnico5 bar magnet unlike other inexpensive pups. Sounds decent, better than a stock EB3 you ask me, does not hum and is really cheap. Not massive output (was it 6500 - 7000 ohms maybe?) but i think they have normal or hot of these too. Maybe worth trying?

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Gene falls
« on: July 21, 2016, 11:56:38 PM »
Quote from: uwe on July 21, 2016, 09:29:42 AM
What other band shares its DNA with their fans while still playing?
Angus Young?

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Gene falls
« on: July 19, 2016, 11:25:23 PM »
Quote from: TBird1958 on July 19, 2016, 04:14:32 PM

Embarrassing - very, I was just glad I didn't break the purple '76 on my way down  :-[

...Or injuring that road worn cherry :mrgreen:

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Zer0 Glide Nuts
« on: July 18, 2016, 10:58:32 PM »
What an annoying video. Some people just spend too much time worrying about this, like it is something to fill up the emty space where their talent should have been. Althoug math and logics will say straight frets and normal nuts is a compromise, good instruments in the hands of good players (they don't even have to be that good) have always sounded good to me.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Of mudbuckers and magnets.
« on: July 15, 2016, 05:02:05 AM »
Quote from: Alanko on July 15, 2016, 03:18:13 AM

There does seem to be a general lack of mainstream, period-correct spec reproduction mudbuckers.

To me, that just makes sense. The market for mudbuckers seems to be limited, an aquired taste you might say. This forum i guess is the exception, though even here you have gibson bass lovers who finds the original mudbucker somewhat limited in the tone departement.

After all, though expensive at the moment, original units are plentiful. The last mudbucker i bought on ebay cost me about $60 without cover, but I waited a long time for one that cheap. Another point is that you can find good gibson bass projects anywhere at better prices than other vintage basses (rick, fender) if you are looking for mudbucker equipped ones and not Tbirds - if you look outside ebay.

I can't see any manufacturer in his right mind would decide to put a period correct 60's mudbucker into large scale production, no matter how much I love that damn thing!

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thomann and Gibson. *Custom colours*
« on: June 29, 2016, 02:34:07 AM »
Quote from: exiledarchangel on June 28, 2016, 03:27:45 PM
I had to confess, didn't expect that slapping.

I tried that slapping trick at a gig once - no response from the audience whatsoever :-[

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Orlando
« on: June 15, 2016, 11:25:16 PM »
Quote from: TBird1958 on June 15, 2016, 10:22:31 AM
Did I mention I  F*&^%)G hate guns................

 Sorry, it's the only constructive input I have at this point.


My thougts too, but I kept quiet 8)

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Gibson Basses / Re: Bought a 65(?) EB-3
« on: June 04, 2016, 02:54:17 AM »
Quote from: bobyoung on June 03, 2016, 04:15:23 PM
OK, I got the bridge and just had to try it out, very easy to put on and it actually works very well. It came almost intonated already. The most apparent thing is that the E string sounds better, it's more even with the other strings and the middy sound of it isn't as loud as before and they all play in tune all the way up the neck. I didn't tighten it down too much. I'm not crazy about how it looks, the old one just looks right, this one is shiny chrome and is pretty big compared to the bar bridge, but it sounds and plays better, nice to be able to individually set the string heights too. I haven't played with the side placement yet on it although i just noticed that there is more of a space between the E and A than the A and D and even less between the D and the G on the nut. When my wife gets home next week I'll take a picture and post it. The bridge is fairly heavy but I don't notice it playing the bass, does nothing for the neck dive either. All in all it's a pretty big improvement in the playability department.

So you don´t need that silly old bridge. Ship it to me :)

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: Silly impulse purchases (obscure Canadian gear)
« on: June 04, 2016, 02:47:21 AM »
Can´t say if it will work for guitar in your cab, but if you are after something close to alnico sound - a neo speaker might suit you. I now use eminence basslite S2012 neos in my marshall 412TV and celestion BN12-200 neos in my musicman 212. They are both good sounding and take 200W (celestion) and 150W (eminence) each. It was the 412 cab you needed speakers for, right? 

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Gibson Basses / Re: NOS 20/20 on the bay
« on: May 30, 2016, 07:29:57 AM »
Same here; google images. I think the company was called Olympiatees or something.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Bought a 65(?) EB-3
« on: May 30, 2016, 12:49:22 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on May 29, 2016, 06:07:44 PM

What about the Hipshot? The two point Supertone (.pdf) shows 3.265" -- and yet two of the three customer reviews for it mention using it on '71s. I'm confused.

At any rate, there's the issue of the bar bridge posts, which aren't quite on a parallel. Didn't someone here a few years back mention using a two-point Supertone on those posts?


I used a two point supertone on my fretless 1967 EB0 project a couple of years ago, there was no modification needed regarding the offset - one of the post holes is oblong/adjustable. The post screws must be modified though, if you are to use the original screws/posts.

But I can´t see that the bar bridge does a bad job of intonating the bass; i bought the supertone because I had no bridge for my project - and original bar bridges (at the time) was far between and silly priced!

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