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I flipped an EMG soapbar upside down...

kaljultdgl

kaljultdgl

Oct 21, 2019
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The bridge pickup on my bass was too thin sounding because it was so close to the bridge. It's an EMG 35J so it's a single coil in a soapbar housing.

I flipped it upside down so the coil is farther away from the bridge now and it sounds amazing! :hyper:

The only downside it that now the EMG logo is on the wrong side.
 
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I did the same thing. On my Ibby SRA305 the bridge rout is too close to the bridge to get any tone. So I flipped my 40JX and it put the coils in roughly the "60's" J-bridge position. Much more meat to the tone, with no loss of growl or top end when desired. I also put a 33-inch neck on it, which also helped the tone as well as my fretting hand.
 
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iiipopes said:
I did the same thing. On my Ibby SRA305 the bridge rout is too close to the bridge to get any tone. So I flipped my 40JX and it put the coils in roughly the "60's" J-bridge position. Much more meat to the tone, with no loss of growl or top end when desired. I also put a 33-inch neck on it, which also helped the tone as well as my fretting hand.
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That sounds cool, I wish I didn't have a 35-inch bass (neck thru) :D
But my fingers are quite long so I guess its only fair that I have this stupid long bass.
 
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sikamikanico said:
Tune half step down and capo at first fret. Then you have a 33” bass :)

or don’t capo and enjoy extra notes :)
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That is how I have experimented to see if I preferred any different scale length. To continue the examples: capo a 34-inch bass at the first fret to emulate a 32-inch scale; capo at the second fret to emulate essentially a 30-inch scale (well, actually @ 30.3 inches) I have a Rickenbacker which, of course, is 33 1/4 - inch scale, so to make it easier on my luthier, I said make it a flat 33-inch scale. That way, with a 2+3 tuner arrangement that gets the B tuner up the headstock sufficiently, I can still use standard long scale strings and get good tone, intonation and stability on my B string.
 
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