The Gene Simmons EB0 has come home!

[godofthunder]

  It took about 6 months but I was finally able to bring the GS EB0 home yesterday, it's easily the most I have ever paid for a bass. I haven't had much time with it but even the Gibson Custom Shop can't seem to deliver a problem free product.  The pickup was miss aligned under the cover only two bits of 1/2" square foam blocks at opposite corners to keep it in place, I added two more blocks and some thin foam pad to keep the pickup firmly up against the cover to keep it from flopping around.  Full review and video to follow.

[morrow]

Never was a Simmons fan , but that is a beautiful thing. I am partial to DC shortscales.

[senmen]

Hi GoT,

funny, I had exactly the same problem with my bass.
Only two small foams set diagonally beneath the PU
and it fell forward and did move in the cavity and clacked
against the pu cover.
Had claimed towards Gibson through my dealer and
they sent me new better foam.
Problem now solved, all fixed, and the pole screws
are now located where they should be. 
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

[4stringer77]

What's under the hood? Is it a TB+, an actual sidewinder or something completely different?

[senmen]

The Gibson Spec Sheet says:
Rhythm SG Bass. 
Attached photos of the pickup when it came in with
the pole pieces lying very deep, the pu loose inside
clacking towards the cover, and falling towards the neck.
I had put in simply some small cardboard in front
to have it secured until I had received proper foam
from Gibson. 
But at a retail of nearly 8K EUR and being a CS instrument
this is normally not acceptable. 
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

[senmen]

PS I also think it is strange that the pick up cover had been
mounted that quickly after the paint job!!

[gearHed289]

My wallet and I are waiting for an Epiphone version. 

[uwe]

Finger-lickin' good!

[Basvarken]

Weird that they had the polepieces screwed down so deep. Normally -when they raised into the holes of the cover- they should help to keep the pickup in place.
Maybe that's even their only function (even with a real mudbucker), no?

[ilan]

Glad I'm not the only one sticking usable pickups under mud covers.

The cover and the plate with screws came from the cheapest mud lookalike I found, the rest of its parts were thrown away. I didn't want to use the original cover (the real 1970 mudbucker is complete and safe in a sealed box where it can do no harm to an otherwise perfect bass).

[exiledarchangel]

The Gibson Spec Sheet says:
Rhythm SG Bass. 
Attached photos of the pickup when it came in with
the pole pieces lying very deep, the pu loose inside
clacking towards the cover, and falling towards the neck.
I had put in simply some small cardboard in front
to have it secured until I had received proper foam
from Gibson. 
But at a retail of nearly 8K EUR and being a CS instrument
this is normally not acceptable. 
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

This pickup design (the new mudbucker I mean) is so wrong. That metal (aluminium?) plate on top, I bet it sounds much better without it.