Gibson at NAMM 2019

Started by Basvarken, January 11, 2019, 03:29:41 AM

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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...
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Pilgrim

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

Quote from: Dave W on January 21, 2019, 10:28:08 AM
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.
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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...........

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ajkula66

Quote from: Grog on January 21, 2019, 03:03:29 PM
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...
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Barklessdog

Three bass line?
No les Paul basses?

Dave W

Quote from: Barklessdog on January 21, 2019, 07:19:12 PM
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.


Basvarken

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

Quote from: Dave W on January 22, 2019, 06:57:47 AM
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...
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Dave W

Quote from: Basvarken on January 22, 2019, 07:31:49 AM
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
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