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No name bridge..check....rings...check.... new Schallers ...negative....tuner axis too short...Gotoh bridge...negative...screws and screwholes to thin... Waitng for an idea of new tuners..

The most difficult part is done... the new golden bridge arrived today from the UK. Customs sucks ! Now only the new gold Schaller tuners have to arrive...

I use the YYZ only to add a bit of "tube" but don't want a totally distortet signal. By the way, the drums sound more clean too on the plain recording, because I chained it wrong on the other one. The drums got the YYZ effect .. 😛

Before Brexit, you could do local deals and ship to friends in or from England. Now customs and VAT makes those deals impossible. Still waiting for my gold replacement bridge for exactly the BB of the recording. In customs for more than a week now somewhere at an airport...

The same with spare parts from the UK for me... Brexit sucks!

So here a quick and dirty recording of the same lick with the BB1000MA in P mode without the YYZ BB1000MA P mode with YYZ pedal BB1000MA plain without effect pedal

For example ... I adore Mark King ( who does not) and love the look of his Status signature basses. I was more than one time about to order one. But I did own several (other) Status basses and it's sound just did not fit my needs. I did rarely play other basses with more comfortable necks but the basses just don't rock in my very own opinion. The natural tone of a graphite bass is just not rock n roll. Of course you can throw some synh / distortion effects on it and make it work somehow... but a beautiful wooden growl... 4000 Pounds but it does not do that growl 🙂

I know... it was just a joke. I think, playing an artist model is one thing, doing it all exactly ike that star guy... makes only sense if you (try to) play like he does and if you are in playing exactly his kind of music. Because everyone has his way of playing and the world's best bass players set ups won't fit my playing.

P pick up only ! 😄 (Sorry, couldn't resist) 🙂

On the way...

It is a repost of my recording because it kind of went lost on the end of side 277 😉

It's the pu position. The YYZ makes the sound more beafy... rather fat than thinner..! BB1000MA P-Mode (YYZ)

What strings are you using on your BB's? I usually string them with D'Addario steels. But on the red BB of the recording I tested some Rotos. I'll stick to the D'Addarios...

Al, can you hear the more straight sound of the reverse pu in the recording? It is not as boomy as a normal P.... I like this, every sound guy loves it 🙂

Can do so but not today,- the floor with the music stuff belongs to someone else right now... bass is not welcome at the moment 😛

If you remeber ..I put off the pu rings of the 1000ma ...they are gold now...will be on their way to me tomorrow 🙂 Still waiting for the gold bridge..it will come from the UK...we will see how customs work these days... And because it is a boring sunday I fiddled arround with some basses and played the 1000ma in P style mode because the J-pu falls in to the body cause it is fixed with the pu ring usualy...the P sytle pu works cause the ring is only optics... So as usual..Yamaha bass, cable, SDRUM pedal for the beat and a yyz for some sound...smartphone in front of a little HD20 Hartke combo. That's it. And just some weird riff that I figured out in 5 minutes. So nothing fancy. BB1000ma P style mode

And did I see a Telecaster... I love mine 😄

My gang of 4

Nothing to add here ! 🙂

That's why even my 300 got a ring.

I think with some vintage white pu's... we'll see 😄

So here's the 1000 without his pu rings. Not too bad...

I took of the pick up rings today to let them anodize in gold. Looking at the 1000 without them.... looks cool to. Now I am thinking about doing some work on another of my 1000's.. I always wanted to be able to replace the pick ups... so my idea ist: a new finish and before that... adjusting the pick up holes to the standard. Candy apple red again with vinage white Dimarzios... maybe all black hardware..

Nothing to sell 😛 Ordered a fitting gold bridge and tuners. Found someone who can electroplate the pu rings incl. screws and the rest is just assembling

I'll keep you informed about the porn of gold 😛