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Modulus Mob
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Well, all the new ones anyways....
Aaaand I'm back. In a moment of weakness and frustration I sold my Lefty 89 Quantum and decided to quit playing. That lasted about 7 months. I got the itch again after subbing on a borrowed bass a couple times, and a singer I used to play with has been asking me to gig again. Luckily, the guitar center I sold the bass to still had it and had even reduced the price to a little less than they paid me for it! I took it as a sign and went back and bought it back this afternoon. I'll play it Sunday at church, in what is sounding like a semi permanent move. I usually play guitar there.
too bad youre a lefty, there is a beautiful 5 string quantum at the guitar center in arlington.
So this showed up at my house yesterday... very nice, pretty light. Sadly, it has reinforced me selling my Q6 i got a few months ago as I just am not comfy on a 6er...
I am working a lot this week, so I didn’t have too much time to check it out, but I plugged it in and it sounds good. The seller was getting some flack about the modifications he made (it was his bass, he could do whatever he wanted to it), and I will be replacing the pickups with EMG stuff (and removing the shims) asap, but it gets a really good flatwound p bass sound as is. I have a Lakland 5 string p already (which will be getting these D’addario chromes), but this bass it totally useable, just not a typical Q5...
I am working a lot this week, so I didn’t have too much time to check it out, but I plugged it in and it sounds good. The seller was getting some flack about the modifications he made (it was his bass, he could do whatever he wanted to it), and I will be replacing the pickups with EMG stuff (and removing the shims) asap, but it gets a really good flatwound p bass sound as is. I have a Lakland 5 string p already (which will be getting these D’addario chromes), but this bass it totally useable, just not a typical Q5...
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Anyone know a good replacement bridge for the m92-5? Starting to clean up mine from the butchering that occurred by it's previous owner. Would like to change the bridge.
Mine had a Schaller roller bridge. Hipshot A style would work. What’s it currently have?
FYI I just realized my last post made no sense in the context of your post so disregard please.
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is it a chrome schaller bridge? (need a gold schaller bridge if 'available'...
)what don't you like about the current bridge?
the gould-era moduli had either a schaller bridge (as loveandbass pointed out) or an abm bridge.
here's a pic of my q5 with an abm bridge:
here's a pic of another q5 with a schaller bridge:
heheh... ye must pay the toll!
it's an abm with fixed saddles. here's a pic of a couple from my parts drawer with adjustable saddles:
That’s true. I think only the 6ers had those, but I could be wrong. I know Peavey used those bridges too, probably not too many 6 string options back in the day.
ah, forgot about those. that tbx on ebay has one too. if i also remember correctly, there were a few that sported gotoh bridges that looked kinda like schallers but had a cylindrical fixed saddle and the gotoh label stamped at the back of the bridge.
and don't forget geoff's early creations with the graphite saddles...
heheh... ye must pay the toll!
it's an abm with fixed saddles. here's a pic of a couple from my parts drawer with adjustable saddles:
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The ABM fixed Bridge on the green Q6 same as originally came on my Q5. Changed over to black hardware and put this guy on, I believe another ABM.
is it a chrome schaller bridge? (need a gold schaller bridge if 'available'...
what don't you like about the current bridge?
the gould-era moduli had either a schaller bridge (as loveandbass pointed out) or an abm bridge.
here's a pic of my q5 with an abm bridge:
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here's a pic of another q5 with a schaller bridge:
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This about sums up what i don't like about the current bridge. Its been abused. And someone modified the G string roller by adding what appears to be a blob of solder. not sure if they couldn't get intonated properly and needed a touch of extra length or what. That combined with them filing out the string slots for the B and E strings. I just want to clean it all up.
And don't get me started on the hammer and chisel (or maybe screwdriver) routing done for the extra pickup.....
