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View Poll Results: Which of the following do you recommend on Geddy Lee Jazz given my situation? | |
Keep the BA bridge and add a neck shim
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Replace the BA with a Fender vintage style bridge
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Replace the BA and add a neck shim regardless
|    | 1 | 10.00% | |
Do nothing, keep the bass stock
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06-18-2010, 11:08 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dearborn, Michigan | |  Remove Leo Q BA bridge or shim neck?
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Hey guys,
My Geddy Lee jazz could use a bit lower action. The saddles on the stock Badass bridge are just about as low as they can go. I've got an original Fender bridge with threaded saddles that I'm thinking about using instead of the Badass bridge. I've heard that the original fender bridge may not be as sturdy but adds back some low-mids and is capable of very low action compared to the BA bridge?
To me, it seems that the neck could use some angle regardless (shim in the back of neck pocket with a business card- we're talking a 0.010" here I think).
I'm getting ready to put some new DR low riders (45-105) on soon and was hoping to get some opinions.
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06-18-2010, 11:10 AM
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06-18-2010, 11:17 AM
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06-18-2010, 11:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dearborn, Michigan | | | Good question, right now its about 0.015" taken at the 8th fret b/w the 1st and 17th. |
06-18-2010, 11:32 AM
| | | | I suggest trying the shim with the BA first, then changing the bridge if that dosen't work... |
06-18-2010, 11:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | File the grooves deeper, That is what I did on my frettless. I have the action so low I can feel the strings with my thumb!
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06-18-2010, 11:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Virginia | | | Can't remember if I shimmed my Geddy or not, but the BA is one of the reasons I chose it over the Highways, so I can't see swapping it. The-BA-steals-tone is a saw I've heard before but I don't believe it. (If it was cut poorly, then maybe.) Perhaps also go slightly lighter DR's (.40-.100)
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06-18-2010, 11:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | I've never liked what any of the BA bridges I installed for customers did to the sound of their basses, so I'd yank it off in a heartbeat.
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06-18-2010, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dearborn, Michigan | | | I appreciate the input so far.
JTE: could you be more specific? What did you notice that you didn't care for on the BA bridges you installed? Are you talking from a set-up & adjustments standpoint or a tone stand point? -or both?
Does anyone else have thoughts on this? |
06-18-2010, 04:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Metro Detroit | | | The BadAssII seems to bring out an upper mid presence, I like, that wasn't there initially(IMO). It doesn't overly accentuate it. I have one Jazz with and one without. The one with sounds more modern, but it also has Sadowsky HC pickups. The one without has single coils in it and it sounds more classic.
I say shim the neck. It doesn't take much to get it there.
Last edited by Craig_S : 06-18-2010 at 04:19 PM.
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06-18-2010, 04:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dearborn, Michigan | | | Craig - do you agree with using 1 business card as a shim material? I've also heard that playing cards provide a good material as well. |
06-18-2010, 04:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Metro Detroit | | | Strips of business card at the heel will do. I've seen strips of sandpaper used. I've seen guitar picks. I've seen wood... I usually use card stock. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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