Sneaky-Pete
I bought a Squier Bronco bass a year ago from Bothners Plumstead.
Took it home and looked at the single pickup...guess what...
a bottom end 6-pole strat pickup...probably the cheapest one they could source...
HOW is a strat pickup right for a 4 string bass..?!!
I tossed it in the bin and fitted an EMG imported from Guitar Fetish.
Then I threw away the nasty tin bridge and fitted a chunky imported one
that weighed 4 times as much.
Net result....what a nice bass!...completely different guitar.
Nice round tone, good sustain..not a dead note on the fingerboard, after setting it up properly.
I like the Broco bass because it's a short-scale one...perfect for people
with long palms and short fingers, or just small hands.
I guess the reason you don't hear much about them is that the standard model out the box is awful.
But tweak it a little and it's a pleasure to play compared to lugging around a telephone pole (P Bass to you)...
Anybody got one?....played one?....know where one is going cheap..?
AlanRatcliffe
Well yeah - they were trying to build a cheap short-scale bass. Not really intended for the more discerning player. Contrary to marketing made to sell rail and F-spaced pickups, the magnetic field from a normal polepiece is pretty wide and a standard six string pickup has a fairly consistent field right across the width (switch to your neck pickup on a six string and bend a string across a few poles and listen for dropouts between them).
kapepper
didnt they use surplus stock pick ups of the fender XII on the mustang bass in the sixties?
Arent early fender VIs fitted with strat pick ups?
