Gibson at NAMM 2019

[ajkula66]

I like it.

Hopefully a one of 6-7 GCs in my area will have it in stock sometime soon for me to try it out...

[Pilgrim]

Nice looking bass, and the pickup is in about the right place.  I think that one is a winner just as it is.

[slinkp]

Hard to tell yet. Could it be an EMG35-size soapbar? Plenty of replacement options if it is. Or it could be a TB+ size pickup with different innards.

Or even the same innards with an arbitrarily different name, who knows

It does say there's a coil tap pull switch, so at the very least it's got 4-conductor wiring on the output, which I don't think the TB+ ever had.

From zooming in on the picture, the corners look more rounded to me like the TB+ than like the EMG 35, which are nearly square.  But that's not a lot to go on.

[doombass]

Yes the casing looks like Thunderbird but that does'nt tell what's underneath.

[Grog]

To me it looks a lot like the EB pickups without pole pieces. Those had coil taps...……..

[ajkula66]

To me it looks a lot like the EB pickups without pole pieces. Those had coil taps...……..

I hope that you're right, loved the sound of my 2013 EB...

[Barklessdog]

Three bass line?
No les Paul basses?

[Dave W]

Three bass line?
No les Paul basses?

There are already three basses in the 2019 line: SG, Thunderbird and EB4/EB5. This will be the fourth. The most recent LP basses were the Gibson Memphis ES-LP basses from 2016 and 2017.

[amptech]

It's really nice! I will resist the urge to comment on the bridge, but it's great to see it back.

[fur85]

Looks like Gibson took down the page. Here's a cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QdjVfOZPCgkJ:https://www.gibson.com/Guitar/USACYC512/les-paul-junior-tribute-dc-bass-coming-soon+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[Basvarken]

Probably complete panick caused by all the positive reactions. Even on Talkbass. 

[Dave W]

I wonder if the pickup as shown is just a mockup on a prototype. The whole thing could be a photoshop job based on the DC Junior guitar.

Let's hope someone at Gibson is watching the positive reactions.

[Basvarken]

I wonder if the pickup as shown is just a mockup on a prototype. The whole thing could be a photoshop job based on the DC Junior guitar.

Let's hope someone at Gibson is watching the positive reactions.

The pic in the opening post shows three of them ready to leave for NAMM. I don't think they'd make three mockups just to have them hanging on a wall...

[Dave W]

The pic in the opening post shows three of them ready to leave for NAMM. I don't think they'd make three mockups just to have them hanging on a wall...

I must be missing something b/c I don't see what you're talking about. The three at the lower left corner? Those could be the DC Junior guitars.

[Basvarken]

Yes that's the ones I meant. I think the visible E string on the brown one is too thick to be a guitar string. But I could be wrong