mav Posted February 19, 2012 Posted February 19, 2012 My first post although been lurking around, just sharing my love for me SG standard. Wasn't all wine and roses tho.. Had the usually lack of definition from the E string so I changed strings to 50-105 daddarios short scales. Put a strap button behind the E & A strings. But biggest difference made was changing speaker cabs. My rig is GK800RB into a Hartke 4.5XL. The Aluminium cones really work with the SG tightening up the E string. Sounds huge!! I have the neck pup on 10 and the bridge between 7-9 there's a filter sweep type effect when turning around that range so you have some variety and can find the sweet spot. I like the TB plus neck pickup reminds me off my Thunderbird bass. So I'm a happy camper.
MrNylon Posted February 19, 2012 Posted February 19, 2012 Congrats! Very nice. I like your choice of the D'Addario strings. I have a set of D'Addario ETB92S Nylon Tapewound strings to string on a Heritage Cherry SG like yours, when it comes in. The gauge size is great.
69tele Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 i'm happy with mine too, but still have issues with the HB cover rattling even though I fitted felt washers underneath were did you relocate the strap button ? for balance?
Lungimsam Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 Make sure your control cavity screws are in tight. Rattle can be caused by the screws being loose on the rear control cavity cover. It will sound like it is coming from the face somewhere. At least on mine.
mav Posted February 21, 2012 Author Posted February 21, 2012 were did you relocate the strap button ? for balance? No, I had some spare strap buttons and threaded the string though the screw hole and tucked them behind/under the bridge. you can see them in the pic. Stopping the string winding from sitting over the bridge saddle. I have not touched the strap button on the bass.
bassballs Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 No, I had some spare strap buttons and threaded the string though the screw hole and tucked them behind/under the bridge. you can see them in the pic. Stopping the string winding from sitting over the bridge saddle. I have not touched the strap button on the bass. Very clever, I used to use ball ends from old strings to do the same trick, but now I have a HipShot Supertone Bridge on my SG Bass, a great improvement over the old three point bridge. BTW I also love my Gibson SG Standard Bass
69tele Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 ahh right i understand cool trick. om my rattle tightening the screws on the neck pup makes it go away
pfox14 Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 That really brings me back. My first bass was a short-scale EB-3 cause I wanted to be Jack Bruce
Versatile Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 Cool bass ! Interesting thread too... My first bass was a short scale SG copy It worked well as I swapped between bass and guitar (at times that was an SG too) V
mav Posted October 9, 2012 Author Posted October 9, 2012 Still loving this bass! Pulled the wickedest tone at a blues/rock gig Saturday night. To achieve such tonal ecstasy i used a couple of pedals, an MXR M87 compressor and an Aguilar Tone Hammer. The Compressor was at a minimal setting, just enough to rein in the extreme dynamics of super fat bottom end E string to clear singing D & G strings. Great to have full control of my volume. I set the Tone Hammer to have the upper mids reduced and AGS engaged for some nice over driven "Jack Bruce playing though a Marshall circa 69 " effect. This bass is so light I could have played all night. Still in love.
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