+Bridge preference+

[Cliff Bordwell]

Do you have a bridge design preference?
One piece.
Two piece
Mono rail style.
Other.

I would love to hear everyone's thoughts about the bridges they like.

Some visuals

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[ladros2]

Other,

G&L L-2000 Bridge.

 

[mark beem]

I like individual bridge saddles on my ERBs. Helps cut down on sympathetic string vibrations...

On standard string basses (5 & 6) I like Hipshot "A" styles best but have nothing against their "B" styles...

Two piece bridges a-la Warwick, Stambaugh and Drozd are cool too...

It all depends on the bass...

So since I have no one style I like best I picked "Other"...

 

[echo008]

I voted 2 piece... more specifically.... Alembic Bridges (although very similar to the Jerzy Bridge in the pic above)
they are my favorite, for looks and ease of adjustment.
- Tom

 

[emjazz]

In my experience I've preferred the tone of one piece brass bridges on my 6 strings but I seem to like lighter aluminum one piece bridges on 4 and 5 strings.

As far as the Jerzy Drozd basses I've heard that his 2 piece bridge is a pain to adjust as far as intonation is concerned.

 

[Aj*]

Two piece or monorail, probably two piece as it allows for adjustable string spacing.

 

[Figjam]

I like one piece bridges with a lot of bass (ernie ball), helps for slaptone.

 

[lyle]

other

 

[BillytheBassist]

Monorail's are great, as well as hipshot A's.

 

[pickles]

I like a quick change bridge, and think that bridges with too extreme of a break angle or too short of a run from the saddle to the tailpiece tend to mess with the overtones on the lower strings. I don't like saddles that shift, and really have no use for asjustable string spacing.

Wilkensons and the private labeled derivatives are great IMO.

 

[bikeplate]

Hi

Whatever Sadowsky chooses to use

Rob

 

[pickles]

Hi

Whatever Sadowsky chooses to use

Rob

I mostly like the bridge on the metro, but it doesn't really care for non-taper B strings due to the high break angle and short run after adjusting intonation. I could barely wedge a .135 D'adarrio Prosteel in there, and once I got it in place, it didn't sound good at all I think due to the high break angle, and the fact that very little of the string was consumed behind the saddle. Most strings are not very flexible right at their base!

That string worked fine on my wilkenson equipped basses.

 

[bikeplate]

HI

Roger, along with alot of other manufacturers, recommend and use a taper wound B. Thats why that saddle is ahead of the E saddle instead of behind it for intonation

Rob

 

[steve66]

Definiately the third pic where each string has its own bridge. The Schecter custom line does it that way.

 

[Fuzzbass]

I've always found 2-piece bridges to be the sexiest by far!

 

[LowEndLobster]

I LOVE two piece bridges. I have two basses with them and want more .

 

[Vox Populi]

I have a monorail bridge on both of my main basses.

 

[PilbaraBass]

As long as a bridge serves its purpose well for the particular instrument, I don't care WHAT type it is. I have 3 distinct types on my 4 basses

My bridges:

Carvin AC40
Acoustic Guitar Type, through body string anchor
+ Great Acoustic Tone via the ribbon Piezo pickup
- No intonation or string height adjusment (really not needed)

Home-built P-bass copy
Leo Quan Badass II, single piece bridge
+ Great Adjustment
+ Nice and Chunky
- None

Yamaha RBX170
Bargain-basement production one-piece bridge (Fenderesque)
+ Great Adjustment
- None really

Wishbass (bridge modification)
Monorail blocks (minus the slides), adjusted through channels carved into the bass top, anchored via through-body
+ Great adjustment
- None really (works much better than the old "corian" bridge)

 

[PilbaraBass]

I LOVE two piece bridges. I have two basses with them and want more .

Translated: I LOVE two piece bridges [on my Warwicks]. I have two basses [Warwicks] with them and want more [Warwicks].

 

[Johnny Fila]

I can tell you which one I can't stand..........the Spector bridges are a pain the ***. I hate working with those. Love the basses, hate the bridge though.

Hipshot A and Gotoh 206.