Will do as soon as I get a mo. I can post the eBay ones at least….
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SGC Nanyo club!
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The UK's Basschat forum has a more comprehensive thread on SGC. There was 4 or 5 posts just last week regarding which pot does what.
Obscure Musical Backwaters - The Great SGC Nanyo Thread
Thanks
I’ve posted in there too - this one is unusual as it’s a rare beast (I have an SGC 315 too) and has 18v preamp vol/blend and 3 way EQ. BUT I think it’s slightly different to the Godlyke Deity that followed it (which has a notch filter). Plus I think the pots *may* need replacing (batteries left in there for years I suspect)
Why would the 'pots' need replacing ?
Battery corrosion would mainly affect the clips, wires from go to the punch down connector block. The 'pots' don't make a direct connection to the batteries.
Zooming in on the preamp photo both the clips and the connections are pretty clean; circled the connections with red and yellow. Your Vol pot is circled in blue, Blend in orange. No need to mark the EQ pots, it's a run of the mill preamp.
There is a trim pot I've circled in white. On a preamp with active/passive that would set parity between the two settings, avoiding output jumps as you switch. Here, I'm guessing it's for gain.
BTW
You might want to double check the BassChat thread, doesn't appear to have any posts regarding your bass. Recent posts jump from last Sept, Stevie in Glasgow asking about bridges for 315's, to SICbass on Thursday ; he was asking which pot does what on his red fretless 4 string.
Thanks. I think I did it as a reply to someone owning the same bass.
the pots feel a bit ‘wobbly’ (2 have centre indents and one doesn’t, plus the volume and blend controls (which also has centre detent)
Will know more tonight once I’ve tried it with new 9V batteries. Was doing weird stuff yesterday but that’s on two VERY old knackered batteries.
The guy I bought it from said it was his dad’s. Assuming he’s passed as the London flat I collected it from looked like a hoarders den so assuming (again) it may be somewhere that is being cleared out and emptied.
Also the tuners/strings were very rusty/mucky despite the bass looking hardly played. And some fret ends appear to be lifting slightly (only spotted once home on further inspection).
And the fingerboard edges look to be de-laminating (whatever coating it has).
certainly worth saving but may have been stored badly for a while I suspect.
Didn't know there was an official SGC Nanyo club here on TB... I scored one out of nowhere yesterday. Made a post about it here if you're interested. Any info on this that you would have would be nice to have too!
Rock on !
Rock on !
There's also a pretty thorough thread on the UK's Basschat forum, it runs to nearly 700 posts over 22 pages.
Obscure Musical Backwaters - The Great SGC Nanyo Thread
Seeing as I actually put a bit of time & effort into this, it seems a shame to let it get wiped when Basstalk goes. Cut & paste starts here: I sold my SGC Nanyo Bass Collection SB301 (snappy name, huh?) last year and almost immediately regretted it. I’ve just managed to replace it with an...
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Thanks, I'll absolutely check it out!There's also a pretty thorough thread on the UK's Basschat forum, it runs to nearly 700 posts over 22 pages.
Obscure Musical Backwaters - The Great SGC Nanyo Thread
Seeing as I actually put a bit of time & effort into this, it seems a shame to let it get wiped when Basstalk goes. Cut & paste starts here: I sold my SGC Nanyo Bass Collection SB301 (snappy name, huh?) last year and almost immediately regretted it. I’ve just managed to replace it with an...
Hello.
I have a basscollection probably sb305. I would like to know if anyone else has this model, because mine has a difference in volume between the bridge pickup and the neck pickup. I would like to know if it is a characteristic of this model or a defect. Thanks.
I have a basscollection probably sb305. I would like to know if anyone else has this model, because mine has a difference in volume between the bridge pickup and the neck pickup. I would like to know if it is a characteristic of this model or a defect. Thanks.
I see others are necro-ing this very old thread so I guess I'll join the club. 
I have what I believe to be a SB315FL based on the catalog I downloaded from here. It has aftermarket EMG active pickups. The tuners and bridge are GOTOH, but the bridge isn't like any I've seen on a Bass Collection and I can't find one like it on the GOTOH website. The only serial number I can find on it is handwritten on the headstock: BCAEC0001. It doesn't match the format of any BC serial numbers I've seen. The neck does appear to be original. The 0001 makes me wonder if it was a one-off custom job. There's no S/N or model number on the control plate, or inside the cavity.
The story behind it: I bought it from a friend, who got it from a friend. What I was told is that this friend's friend worked in a music venue in Las Vegas, some musician left this behind and it sat in the lost and found for a year before they let the employee take it. It was in a Warwick hard case. The only thing I've done to it since I got it are change the strings and drill a new hole for a tuner screw that got stripped out (though it looks like whoever had it before me had to do the same with three of the other tuners).
Can anyone tell me anything about it? Am I correct about the model number? Did they ever have a custom shop?
I have what I believe to be a SB315FL based on the catalog I downloaded from here. It has aftermarket EMG active pickups. The tuners and bridge are GOTOH, but the bridge isn't like any I've seen on a Bass Collection and I can't find one like it on the GOTOH website. The only serial number I can find on it is handwritten on the headstock: BCAEC0001. It doesn't match the format of any BC serial numbers I've seen. The neck does appear to be original. The 0001 makes me wonder if it was a one-off custom job. There's no S/N or model number on the control plate, or inside the cavity.
The story behind it: I bought it from a friend, who got it from a friend. What I was told is that this friend's friend worked in a music venue in Las Vegas, some musician left this behind and it sat in the lost and found for a year before they let the employee take it. It was in a Warwick hard case. The only thing I've done to it since I got it are change the strings and drill a new hole for a tuner screw that got stripped out (though it looks like whoever had it before me had to do the same with three of the other tuners).
Can anyone tell me anything about it? Am I correct about the model number? Did they ever have a custom shop?
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The bridge is a Gotoh Type 206, as same as used in some Yamaha, Sadowsky and the Fender Roscoe Beck V bass. Some Bass Collection were equipped with that bridge, which is also called "Omni-Adjust".
I got some of them recently, it's a very rare bridge to find nowadays.
I got some of them recently, it's a very rare bridge to find nowadays.
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A good musician friend of ours passed away about a year ago and his family still had his fretless sb330 lying around. They asked me if I wanted to have it. Who wouldn’t?! So I cleaned it up, put some fresh strings on it, did a little setup and fitted a new battery. Very pretty and light bass!
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