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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Bassguitar mod - Part 1


The Morgan YB-48 is a (Norwegian model only?) bassguitar that looks like this (left picture)

Stock 

Stock it has this setup:
  • Neck: Jazzbass-style bridge pickup
  • Bridge: Musicman Stingray -style pickup
  • Electronics: Preamp/active electronic
  • Volume, Balance, Bass and Treble pots

Mod

After some usage, I found myself not to happy about the sound. So, I did some mod/upgrade to:
  • Neck: Fender Jazzbass '75 Bridge-pickup
  • Electronics: Passive jazzbass pots (vol, vol, tone)

Here are some soundclips before/ after
Stock:
http://g-sun.no/Upload/Bass%20mod/Bass%20stock-neck.mp3
http://g-sun.no/Upload/Bass%20mod/Bass%20stock-bridge.mp3
http://g-sun.no/Upload/Bass%20mod/Bass%20stock-Middle.mp3
Modded:
http://g-sun.no/Upload/Bass%20mod/Bass%20mod-neck.mp3
http://g-sun.no/Upload/Bass%20mod/Bass%20mod-bridge.mp3
http://g-sun.no/Upload/Bass%20mod/Bass%20mod-Middle.mp3

44/16 wav.zip /all files here

Note: Of course not identical takes, so very unscientific 

My conclusions

 I realy liked the change. But, it seemed obvious to me that the bridge-pickup wasn't to happy about the passive mod. So, that brings me to Part 2 of the bassguitar modding..

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