Your Perfect Short-Scale

[knucklehead G]

If you were designing a bass with a 30" scale, what pickups / electronics configuration would use? What woods?

 

[Darkstrike]

Wenge neck, with an ebony board, ash body, single EMG 35-DC in the MM sweetspot, with a matching EMG pre-amp, Hipshot hardware, including a trem.

EMG stuff wired at 18v.

Mmmmmmm......

 

[Darkstrike]

Then again, a P/Hum combo would be awesome too.

 

[KramerBassFan]

30' scale length
Big Mud bucker (or dark star) in the neck
All mahogany
Alembic type electronics
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[edwinhurwitz]

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[RDagBasses]

I did this one , 30" scale, with darkstar pu's , korina body and neck (wengé reinforced) hipshot bridge and tuners... it works, powerfull and precise clear sound (well... clear for a bass but not muddy at all)Link Removed

and this one, 30" too but Hollow mahogany body with mapple top. one piece mahogany neck with violette wood fretboard, different sound but similar tone definition
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(video on youtube for both model)

my favourite scale !( short fingers...)

 

[nukes_da_bass]

Gibson EB-3 style but 5 string, with a B extender to keep it from being floppy...and anything but jazz pickups.

 

[Hoover]

My "perfect" short-scale bass would be a medium scale bass...


But I wouldn't kick that Alembic Series I outta bed!

 

[Tommygunn]

Starfire or EB2. Or the Guild JS bass, the one that looks remotely like an SG.

 

[AntAir267]

Bronco bass in Torino Red with Hipshot Ultralite Tuners, Seymour Duncan Hotrails attached to a selector switch that is attached to a 250k volume pot which is attached in turn to a Fender no-load 250k tone pot, side jack, and a string-through Musicmaster Reissue bridge. In fact, that's my latest project.

 

[RoadRanger]

[...] single EMG 35-DC in the MM sweetspot [...]

Just curious where that would measure out on a 30" scale? I just picked up a 30" Cort Action Bass Jr. that has a single passive humbucker and I'm trying to figure out if the pickup is "optimally" placed .

 

[Plake]

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61 Ebo with LP p/u, schaller roller bridge, passive

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Epi, 2 barts, schaller tuners and bridge, Aguilar obp-3 preamp

 

[Craigster]

I picked this up about 6mos ago for around $400 and I think it works great as a short scale for low dinero: Ibanez abg 200

 

[gnjpowell]

60s -early 70s vintage EB-3