If you could add one simple feature to your bass...

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Low8 said:
Be it a classic design or a modern creation, what's the one feature you wish you'd add to bass you play?

While I'm not a big Music Man fan, I dig their bridge with the adjustable foam mutes. I don't see why more makers haven't copped this design.

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Rickenbackers all come with mutes and have for years. I roll up flannel for basses without them if I need one. It works well.
 
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The more modern basses I own don’t need much improvement. I still play a P-Bass a lot so I’d like a spoke wheel truss rod nut on those.

I also prefer the vintage stamped metal bridge on a vintage-style Fender, but I don’t like how the individual saddle have no track, channel, or other design feature to keep them locked in place. Nobody’s come up with a workable solution so I guess it’s not a big deal to anyone else. I suppose it could be solved if the bridge had walls on the side that went up like a vintage Tele bridge does.
 
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Low8 said:
While I'm not a big Music Man fan, I dig their bridge with the adjustable foam mutes. I don't see why more makers haven't copped this design.
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Well, EBMM dropped the mutes from their bridges around 1995, and then brought them back on the “Classic Series”, but dropped the whole Classic Series a couple years ago…so the only basses they made since then with bridge mutes are the Tim Commerford models.
I had a ‘94 with bridge mutes, and I have to admit that I really never used them. Kind of a PITA to adjust quickly if you’re doing a live show…
 
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I just got a Ray35HH. It has 1, 5 way switch that provides 5 different pup configurations. I'd like to have a 4 way switch for each pup + a blend pot. This would solo either coil, both in parallel and both in series. That is 16 pup configurations with blend. Infinite tone adjustment at your fingertips. But, I'll make due...........lol
 
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cxcxcx said:
I also prefer the vintage stamped metal bridge on a vintage-style Fender, but I don’t like how the individual saddle have no track, channel, or other design feature to keep them locked in place. Nobody’s come up with a workable solution so I guess it’s not a big deal to anyone else.
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When Westone's Thunder 1-A was made in 1983, offending Fender in the process to the point of being sued for P-bass patent infringement due to how close the Westone guitar got, considering it doesn't look like a Fender, they sorted this with shallow channels. The way I play, near the bridge, you can be sure it matters to me! :)

Westone also added a nice active booster with a great filter, to the otherwise identical passive electronics of a P-bass. This results in microphony in cables unless the volume is set to full, presenting a low resistance output from the op-amp in the active circuit. The one modification I'd have liked was to get the passive sound routed through that final output stage so the low resistance was ALWAYS there regardless of setting for volume. As it is, I set full, then use 22K and 100K resistors as potential divider in a Neutrik right-angle jack to get the attenuation to feed my preamp because the output of the Westone is very strong. I'm ok with this but it means I can't just grab some other cable unless microphony in the cable doesn't matter. I feel better when I don't have to think about that so I get rid of it.
 
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Geri O said:
Ehhhh....

Can't think of anything I'd like to add to any of my basses.
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Gotta amend this....

As mentioned above, I'd like to add truss wheels to any of my basses that don't have them.

The Lulls are constructed so that the addition of a truss wheel isn't practical because of the neck material that would have to be removed. I as given a reason that Mike Lull decided against using spoke wheels and it sounds plausible enough. I guess.....:D
 
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Low8 said:
Be it a classic design or a modern creation, what's the one feature you wish you'd add to bass you play?

While I'm not a big Music Man fan, I dig their bridge with the adjustable foam mutes. I don't see why more makers haven't copped this design.

You reading this Hipshot??? :cool:
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This would be my choice as well. As soon as I read the title I was going to type this exact request.
 
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Low8 said:
I love it when I learn something new. Thanks.
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They are an integral part of the bridge assemble although they are easily removed. I think it was a good design.
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elgranluis said:
The mutes are not part of the bridge.

They are actually for sale in their online store for a pretty reasonable price, so you can mod any bass , musicman or not.
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Killing Floor said:
They are an integral part of the bridge assemble although they are easily removed. I think it was a good design.
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So are you saying that I can buy his mute kit and install it on my StingRay5 Special and Short Scale Sterling StingRay ?
 
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