Not a Gibson - but interesting...

[lowend1]

http://www.staggmusic.com/products/products_detail.php?langue=uk&oneid=581

I heard Stagg's stuff is crap, but I'm strangely drawn to this thing

[nofi]

lucy from the old pit played a fretless stagg something or other and was quite happy with it. i do know it was not this bass.

[clankenstein]

i wonder what a mudbucker in that position would sound like.

[Dave W]

I've seen one in a store, sitting right next to another Stagg, this V bass: http://www.staggmusic.com/products/products_detail.php?langue=uk&oneid=610

I didn't play either of them, but the "mudbucker" on the EB-type had polepiece spacing much narrower than the string spread there by the bridge.

All in all, they look just like what you'd expect in a cheap Chinese bass.

[Basvarken]

I stumbled upon another Gibson like Stagg. Or is it the same ( the pics show different instruments...)?




Now I know that Stagg instruments are usually not much more than firewood.

But the concept of this mock EB0 surely tickles my curiosity.
In particular the place of that mudbucker.
Placing it right at the bridge might be a brilliant solution to the somewhat troublesome surplus of low frequencies reproduced by the mudbucker?

With a mahogany body and maple neck and a price of just about 150 Euros it might be worthwile to check it out.
Any opinions / experiences?

[Dave W]

That's the same one that was originally at the Stagg link in the first post. It's still on their site, under their Rock Series.

I would be concerned about the mismatch between the polepieces and the string spacing. That would be a problem with a real mudbucker, maybe not with this one, all depends on what's under that cover and how it's made.

[uwe]

A real mudbucker in bridge position curiously doesn't transmit much tone at all. What it needs, it can't get in that position, and what it gets, it can't process.

[Freuds_Cat]

Billy that Stag look a lot like the Korean Dean Edge 4 I picked up recently with the exception that the Dean has Soapbars. To be honest its the cheapest non SX bass that I've ever bought and I actually play it a lot. It has fantastic balance, is light and the neck is a shape that not only do I find very comfortable but quite different to any other that I've tried.

[ilan]

I played one today. A long-scale model. It needs some work (better fret dressing etc.), but it's a nice bass and it makes a sound I can use.

It's heavy - probably 9+ lbs. - but the upside is less neck-dive than you'd expect. Actually it was quite comfortable to play with a wide strap.

The sound was surprisingly nice. fatter than a bridge-position J but not muddy, and still punchy enough without being clanky. A very usable sound if you're into sweetspot-type tone.

The pickup looks like a cheap unit, the polepieces don't line under the strings, and it's not grounded very well, there is an audible pop when a finger touches the metal cover.