Recent content by Onelessfixie

These pickups take away so much of what makes a Jazz bass a Jazz bass imo. The neck pick up soloed especially lacks all the gritty edge that gives a jazz bass its testosterone. Overall the sound is just too hi-fi and just downright sterile. Tone as always is a very subjective topic, but if this...

Swapping out the bridge is going to add a very minimal perceptible difference in tone. I'm not sure why there's so much dislike of the three point bridge, honestly it's more than solid enough to do its job well. I also found it suits the overall rock & roll spirit of the Thunderbird quite well...

While it is possible for your particular instrument I don't believe it will be very practical. The biggest set back I can see with trying to do this on a violin bass is the bridge. I just don't think it's going to have the adjustment range to intonate properly. However don't let the nay sayers...

Do you pay for set ups or do them yourself? Either way if you really want those low notes and don't want to sacrifice standard tuning, you might want to consider stringing BEAD using the lower 4 strings of a 5 string set. If you intend to permanently stay in a drop tuning like DADG or DGCF...