Gots me a Squier Bronco bass

Shaguar · Post by **Shaguar** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:38 am

...yeah the one like Aen's, with the Badtz Maru face on it.

I got it for 150$ canadian, which is around 125$ US I think.

I like it. I've only played bass once before and thought the neck on those things was way too long. I like the shortscale feel to this one. It plays nice and the neck is smooth and comfortable. But I will definately have to swap out the shitty strat pick up that's in it for something from GFS. Any suggestions?

Also I think that if I keep this bass as a mainstay I will get rid of the ugly cartoon face that's on it and go for something a little more serious. Might even refinish the body at some point too, I have too many black guitars.

astro · Post by **astro** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:44 am

I stuck a Red Lace Sensor pickup in mine. Sounds huge now, fat and growly like a Jazz bass neck pickup.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:46 am

I played one; it was amazingly light albeit having tons of fret buzz. I don't think you can get a pickup from GFS that fits without altering the pickguard, but this seems to be a good option.

http://store.guitarfetish.com/gfsjbprojaba.html

Shaguar · Post by **Shaguar** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:52 am

Oh I dont want to put a true bass pickup in it, I intend to stick with the guitar size pickups.

I was going to order myself a set of rails for my strat clone(which has a fullsize HB in the bridge) and use the bridge rail on the Bronco. Good idea or not?

Oh and this thing sooooo needs new strings. The G string is corroded all to fuck.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:04 am

I guess I don't understand. I didn't know guitar pickups worked (well or at all) in basses?

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:05 am

cobascis wrote:I guess I don't understand. I didn't know guitar pickups worked (well or at all) in basses?

well squier seem to think they work well enough to sell a bass with a strat pickup in it.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:38 am

http://store.guitarfetish.com/sistpi.html

If you're intending to get another strat pup, those are really the options. Mind you, I have no experience with GFS, just nothing better to do.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:01 am

Reece wrote:
cobascis wrote:I guess I don't understand. I didn't know guitar pickups worked (well or at all) in basses?
well squier seem to think they work well enough to sell a bass with a strat pickup in it.

i think it was fender who started that trend in the 70's with all the shortscale basses having strat pickups. buddy of mine has a 78 musicmaster and it's a strat pup. my squier bronc had a squier strat one (FUCKING HORRIB)

now my new squier 'musicmaster' affinty has a GFS hot rail. should be called a hawt rail

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:22 am

Yea, my '78 musicmaster bass has a strat pickup in it too. It sounds pretty decent in that bass though, the ones in the squier broncos definitely have to go.

Shaguar · Post by **Shaguar** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:14 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:
now my new squier 'musicmaster' affinty has a GFS hot rail. should be called a hawt rail

This one? http://store.guitarfetish.com/lilkiblhurap.html

Do you remember which of the 3 winding options you have?

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:27 pm

this one.

MODERN WINDAGE - had it wired up and heard it briefly with the shit stock pot and jack, and it sounds really heavy. i'm saving for a pickguard right now (the one i got didn't fit and it was used, so the guy wouldn't take it back), and i have the pots. Just need to find out what kind of resistor to use with this hotter pup, and wire up a new switchcraft jack, and i should be in business.

i will poast when i get the body back together.

should look similar to this once completed (except maple fretboard and white witch hats):

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:57 pm

EDIT: I very retardedly posted in the wrong section, while rushing out the door a few hours ago.

Excuse the retardation, for those who saw the fruit of my foolishness posted in this very Bronco-ish thread.

roachello · Post by **roachello** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:03 am

Ya'll need to hop on the mustang bass train. Those r some sleek n unique sounding basses.

Shaguar · Post by **Shaguar** » Sun May 17, 2009 1:03 pm

Here is what I plan to do...

Turn this:

Into this:

It's a Mustang bass PG style. The Badtz Maru bass has through-body controls, so seeing as I dont want to fill the cavity and rout it for a proper Mustang bass control plate I figured I'd just round out the PG where the plate goes and leave the controls as is. Although it would probably be cooler with a chrome control plate.

I may go for a red tort PG too, though that would look a little weird with the maple fretboard I think. I'm going to cut the PG myself, so does anyone have a Mustang bass PG tracing I could have?