The Bass Bridge is an essential link in the tone chain, ranking right up there with your Bass’s pickups and the wood the body is made from in setting the core tone of the instrument, especially if you want to hear deep, harmonically rich resonance throughout the body of the Bass Guitar.
The more components a Bass Bridge has, the more energy is lost in the transmission, and the less part of the Bass’s frequency spectrum is passed back to the strings.
Do bass bridges make a difference?
Bass players have long debated how exactly a new bass bridge changes the tonality of the Bass. There's no consensus: some claim to be able to hear the differences, while others say that they're just listening to a placebo effect.
Do fixed Bass Bridges have more sustain?
Having a fixed Bass Bridge on your Bass will allow you to set up lower string action. Fixed Bass Guitar bridges have more contact with the Bass Guitar's body, which results in better sustain than Bass Guitars with floating bridges. This fact may be the purchase point for some Bassist ….