he said it's all original but it's got clover tuners and strat knobs soo who's to say. the tuners are fender and look pretty old so they've probably been on there as long as he's had it
i looked at more pictures of guitars from that year and they have the straty knobs and clover tuners, so they must have changed that. i didn't realize.
i love love love the neck. smooth and fast. i haven't played a neck i liked more.
sounds fine running through my sunn 100s and 2x12. it's not as biting as it thought it might be but with a little eq it sounds lovely. the tone pot is a little scratchy but i don't roll it much while playing so not really a problem.
the black/black/black looked kinda questionable in the craigslist pictures but looks pretty slick in person.
there are a couple hefty dings on the bottom (that seem to be painted in with black sharpie haha). pretty great condition for a played, 30 year old guitar.
i sold my vox ac15 this afternoon then bought this a couple hours later for $450.
I have a '78 just like that too! I love it! The neck really is amazing! I only paid $300 for mine too! It still has the original hardshell case and is in very good condition for the age. hell of a deal! I think there's someone else on here that has one just like this too.
'tis i. got mine for £300. i noticed the other day that in strong sunlight it looks like a very dark green rather than black, but i suppose it's the clearcoat gone a bit yellow.
My 70s MM was natural with clearcoat and it went full on green on the back and under the pickguard. It was as if contact had caused it, back of the guitar on the case and guard contact at the front.
I noticed that the bass is really loud, so that with the volume knob all the way up it's pretty muddy and distorted. If I roll it back, it cleans up nicely. Do ya'll with the same bass have a similar phenomenon? Also, the tone knob doesn't do all too much.
If I remember correctly, Musicmaster basses have both a capacitor and a resistor wired in parallel on the tone pot. I'd have to see a schematic to be sure I'm not imagining this, though. If I'm not imagining this, perhaps this is limiting the tone knob's functionality?
My fake Musicmaster bass was wired with a standard tone pot setup, but recently something went south in there, and the tone knob has stopped functioning at all. It's a testament to my ham-fistedness when it comes to soldering.
hotrodperlmutter wrote:single coil pbass? looks the same.
That's the diagram that I used for my Squier Bronco to Musicmaster bass conversion. But I wouldn't mind seeing a diagram for a genuine vintage Musicmaster bass, to see if it's different. Anybody have an under-the-hood pic?
This guy on Youtube has removed the second capacitor from his Musicmaster:
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when asked what the mod does, he replied:
"In most basses there is only one capacitor for cut the high frequencies (with the tone pot).
In the Musicmaster there are other capacitor working all the time, so ever the high frequencies are eliminated.
It this second cap is removed, the Musicmaster works like the Precision Bass. So, the sound can be bright or mud. With the second cap working, the sound can´t be bright. Thank you for commentary."
I'll have to check that out on mine too. Cause I definitely noticed the muddiness of the bass. But I have played another '78 that actually sounded very similar to a p bass.
