EB, SG bass make!

[quadebass17]

I want to know your expierence/ knowledge on this.

I'm building a custom bass.

its an SG body, and i'm putting either
A) EMG 35hz active pickkups
or
B) EB MM pickups (brand recommendation?)

its going to be white, but woodgrain. It will have a black outline stripe on body.

Rosewood Neck with Pearl Block inlays.

then.


Black headstock
Black neck(back)

then where the body meets neck,
its will the black wile fade to silver then to the white.

all the accesories will be black.

Gibson Bass Bridge, Leaf Tuners, Gibson Knobs,
Gibson Pickup Switch, and

modified straploks for throwing the bass occasionly.

its short-scale too.

and i'll string it with Rotosounds or EB hybrid slinkys.




Do you like?

or think i should add anything?

tell me!!


or post pics if you have a sweet SG style bass!

 

[bongomania]

It needs Darkstar pickups, and forget the silver- just stay with black and white.

 

[quadebass17]

It needs Darkstar pickups, and forget the silver- just stay with black and white.

what are those???

 

[Kenny Allyn]

what are those???

Check here ... http://www.talkbass.com/reviews/showproduct.php/product/1035

... Here are two of them on my 76 Fender Jazz

 

[quadebass17]

what style are they generally used for?

i know the EMG's have a bit of distortion already in them and i like that....

i play alt. rock but i like to have an edgier sound.

 

[SKATE RAT]

i also say go DARKSTAR.or anything except EMG's.

 

[MikeBass]

what style are they generally used for?

i know the EMG's have a bit of distortion already in them and i like that....

i play alt. rock but i like to have an edgier sound.

Err......EMG's are super clean, wide dynamic range pick-ups.

Try something like a true passive pick-up if you want some junk in there.
Like single coils ala' Seymore Duncan Quarter Pounders (I believe they are single coils).

But EMG's are anything but dirty sounding pick-ups.

 

[Barkless Dog]

What woods?

Short or long scale?

I would do the Dark stars or Rio Grande Pit Bulls

My project EB-0 with added Rio Grande Pit Bull, Big D varitone and push pull coil cut switch

 

[depalm]

It needs Darkstar pickups...

YEP!
+1

 

[quadebass17]

well, my schecter has EMG's and i do like them.

But what style are the Darkstar's used for?

i'm interested but i've only seen them on Fender Jazz, which leads me to think they are to soft for my style.

I was thinking putting a soapbar EMG with a Darkstar?

or Tell me about those Rio Grande things.

 

[Barkless Dog]

Rio grande pit bulls are two really hot P pickups put together.

a High output pickup

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[quadebass17]

what genre are they played in??

 

[Weaponofdoom]

where can I find a bridge similar to this one?

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[Barkless Dog]

Thats a Gibson two point, which is not known as that great of a bridge to say the least. It had nylon saddles, also it's short scale.

there are not a lot of short scale replacement bridges out there.

 

[bassteban]

Thats a Gibson two point, which is not known as that great of a bridge to say the least. It had nylon saddles, also it's short scale.

there are not a lot of short scale replacement bridges out there.

How is a bridge 'short(or long for that matter)scale'? Wouldn't that depend entirely upon where(in relation to the nut)it's installed?

 

[Barkless Dog]

With Gibson Short scale the string spacing is much narrower than regular bridges.

The string spacing gradually gets wider towards the body, so with a short scale you are moving the bridge closer to the nut, thus at a narrower string spacing, vs long scale.

If you put a long scale bridge on a short scale bass the two outer strings would be almost off the neck near the body.

 

[Weaponofdoom]

the bass I'm looking to use it on is shortscale, does that matter?

 

[Barkless Dog]

Yes You need a short scale bridge.

Mike Watt uses a Badass & Schaller version for his EB's, both of which are no longer in production, but do come up time to time on Ebay (be warned they are highly sought after and usually go for at least $100+).

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You can clearly see on Watt's bass if you put on a 34" scale bridge the strings would be off the neck.

 

[Kenny Allyn]

i'm interested but i've only seen them on Fender Jazz, which leads me to think they are to soft for my style.

I never thought of a Jazz as a "soft" sounding bass

... As per the review, they have a very FAST attack and broad range with hi output, and BIG (not muddy) lows!

 

[Barkless Dog]

A large part of your sound is your technique & rig your going through combined with the bass your using.

Funny how Chris Squire, Les Claypool, John Entwistle, Jack Bruce always sound pretty much the same reguardless of what kind of bass they are playing. You can spot any of these guys sound reguardless of the type of bass.