That's ok, Rob, historically, we've always taught you a lesson or two. Neighbors helping neighbors.
The Genesis basses stem from the late seventies - that was way more than a decade before TB Plus chrome guitar size pups saw the light (on the LP Standard and the EB-650 in 1992). Even the origin of that type of pup, the plastic soap bar version (unjustly so unpopular here), only came out in 1987 with the Gibson IV and V and, later that year, the reissued modern TBird (the short run 1986 TBirds for Japan still featured Bicentennial pups). To be fair: I've seen the TB Plus soapies also on an allegedly prototype Victory of the mideighties - should have snagged that up while it was on Ebay
- so they might have been around a little earlier than the IV and V, but certainly not as early as the late seventies.
Who was it again from the fold here that put TB Plus guitar size chromies (when they were still retailed) on a maple bass and said they sounded unpleasantly harsh, but liked the sound after they had been transferred to a mahogany bass? Certainly, on the all maple EB-650 I find the sound of them a little too harsh too, it seems like they need warm mahogany to sound just right. In contrast, there is nothing harsh to the all maple Genesis with those pups it uses.
Uwe
