Vintageing an EB3

This will be an interesting project!

Perhaps some good tips from this following video…:
 
syscokid said:
This will be an interesting project!

Perhaps some good tips from this following video…:
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CME. That’s just down the road a piece from me….. okay maybe a 50 mile long road, but I’ve been in there a few times.
 
Seamus OReally said:
I’d just play it and watch it age with time.
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I will not do any ageing; it will age sufficiently fast by itself. I just added the cover of the bridge after previosly improving the latter, moving the brindge pickup into a reasonable position and replacing the mudbucker by a real one. On a close look You might see that i also set it closer to the brindge. Electronically, this is actually VVT with a no-load pot + a "producer pot" (just pretending to do something).

So i actually improved the bass as a player with some vintage look and feel.
 
An aside: The old story of the “producer’s knob” is probably bull. If I was running a session and asked the bass player for more treble, and he pulled that crap, I would easily hear that the requested change had not been made. I’d say, “nope, that sounds the same.”
 
iblive said:
Must be out of touch. Never heard of a “producers knob.”
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Supposedly, Leland Sklar had a dummy knob on his basses that he could turn when a producer asked him to change his tone, and supposedly they would say, “Yeah, that’s it.”

The story is bull because:

Top-tier producers can hear. And they don’t hire guys who think they know better than them. Lee Sklar would never have risen to his enviable position with a crap attitude like that.
 
Seamus OReally said:
Supposedly, Leland Sklar had a dummy knob on his basses that he could turn when a producer asked him to change his tone, and supposedly they would say, “Yeah, that’s it.”

The story is bull because:

Top-tier producers can hear. And they don’t hire guys who think they know better than them. Lee Sklar would never have risen to his enviable position with a crap attitude like that.
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Ahhh. Urban legends. Gotta love them.
 
Seamus OReally said:
Supposedly, Leland Sklar had a dummy knob on his basses that he could turn when a producer asked him to change his tone, and supposedly they would say, “Yeah, that’s it.”

The story is bull because:

Top-tier producers can hear. And they don’t hire guys who think they know better than them. Lee Sklar would never have risen to his enviable position with a crap attitude like that.
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Yeah, but Leland Sklar is a hilarious dude! I was walking around inside the 2009 NAMM show at Anaheim, when I noticed Leland nearby at a vendor's booth taking a pic of something. I got my phone camera out and took a pic of him taking pics. When he noticed I was taking a pic of him, he flipped me off and yelled: "Now take a pick"! I was laughing so hard, I couldn't compose myself enough to take a pic of him and his bird. Then he said: "Allright, you flip me off and I'll take a pic of you!" I respectfully obliged.

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Well, in his podcast Lee actually demonstrated the switch along with the story on one of his basses. But i can easily imagine he just makes his fun of it.

Back to my bass: it came with those 4 pots, and i need only master vol, treble and bass reduction. So there is still a pot left unused. And at least as long as i do not set up something like a varitone switch in that position i'll call it producer pot.

Did i tell You that i did number the pots of my weakest amp going to 11?
 
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