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Do we have a thread for modded Eb-0's?
- Thread starter leehutch
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Model One pup, BadAss I bridge, Gotoh Tuners. Guitar strings to make it actually produce a sound I can live with.
This mod was performed by my son's dog whilst trying to get a ball that rolled behind the EBO in a corner.
Honorable mention to the alembic modded EBO played by Phil Lesh of the Dead. Arguably one of the first active basses. They added the Guild Bisonic pickups, each pick up had a stratoblaster mounted underneath the picksups, each blaster went to its own set of controls, Hi and Low outs to a stereo pre amp, Hi and low cabinets (12s and 15s I think, maybe just 15s early on). The guys at Alembic also fabricated a new bridge and tailpiece (brass Id assume) for it to. Psychadelic courtesy of Bob Thomas ,same guy who painted the cover for "Live Dead" a record you can get a good idea how this beast sounded. Easily one of my favorite bass tones ever
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I miss my modded Epiphone EB-0. Loaned it out to a friend over 2 years ago. I swapped the pickup for a DiMarzio Model One, installed an HAS Sound 5-position Varitone control, and a push-pull coil tap to toggle the Model One between humbucker and single coil mode. Despite all the additional tonal options, at the end of the day, it was a pretty tonally-limited bass. But that one tone was great for certain things: the Blues, for example.
subbed to thread -- I just picked up this Sekova EB3 copy for classic blues recordings.....Im in the process of modding now, replacing nut and that bridge will go bye-bye too...once those are done, Ill hear what it sounds like with its pickups but I will be checking in here if they are not to my satisfaction
OK I'll play...
Normally, I wouldn't have taken the route of modding a '69 bass, but it had already been modded - more like molested, really - before it came to my hands, and severely so. The bridge pickup came from some type of a Hofner Beatle Bass copy, and the routing had been done with a teaspoon. The chances of me getting it back to the original condition were next to none.
The original 2-point bridge sported a mute - there are traces of it in the lacquer - which was lost along the way, hence the Hipshot which is a thing of beauty compared to the original Gibson offering IMO. Having said that, had the mute been in place I wouldn't have had replaced the bridge.
The bridge pickup is Bartolini BB4CBC-T, a somewhat odd choice on a bass of this kind, but I'm extremely happy with the result. Stacked pots (500 KOhms) give each pickup individual tone/volume controls, while the 3-way switch is wired to the Bartolini only.
Normally, I wouldn't have taken the route of modding a '69 bass, but it had already been modded - more like molested, really - before it came to my hands, and severely so. The bridge pickup came from some type of a Hofner Beatle Bass copy, and the routing had been done with a teaspoon. The chances of me getting it back to the original condition were next to none.
The original 2-point bridge sported a mute - there are traces of it in the lacquer - which was lost along the way, hence the Hipshot which is a thing of beauty compared to the original Gibson offering IMO. Having said that, had the mute been in place I wouldn't have had replaced the bridge.
The bridge pickup is Bartolini BB4CBC-T, a somewhat odd choice on a bass of this kind, but I'm extremely happy with the result. Stacked pots (500 KOhms) give each pickup individual tone/volume controls, while the 3-way switch is wired to the Bartolini only.
