Recent content by JMerwin

I recieved the artec's and wow, the poles on the bridge pickup will be way off the line of the string. Looking more closely at my stock pickup and it's mounting, I suspect that the low volume on that pup is due to the same. The pup is slightly off center, which might put the bass side pole...

I put flats on my G2220 at the same time I installed the KA Bridge. I like the feel of them. I will say that the tone changed, not better or worse, just different. More mellow I suppose. I just twiddled the knobs on my amp. That said, the more mellow tone got me wanting to address the...

I've installed the Kickass Bridge. It's a very nice bridge. I'm not sure if it matters tone wise, but it looks great and the string spacing is adjustable. I've ordered a set of artec humbuckers. I'm not happy with the volume coming off of the bridge pickup, and I found a set of alnico's for...

I've got a couple of heavy bridge options on my watch list. The nice thing is it appears that the same bridge will work for my Gretsch as well as my 60's classic vibe jazz bass.

I'm a guitar player, just getting into bass. I can't justify big bucks either, but I do love making what I have be the best it can be. Nearly everything I have has some sort of mod or improvement.

I managed to find the Attec alnico ($40 on ebay) and ceramic ($33 on ebay), a single (neck only) roswell filtertron ($137 with shipping from Europe for a set), and a dirt cheap h style ($25 on ali express). I did find a link (can't find it now) to a gretsch blacktop, but it had been sold...