Fender Bridge

[Rhys]

I was playing a pretty cool sounding Fender Jazz delux with active electro., I was actually quite impressed.

However!

I know alot of you have fender bass's, so whats the deal with the bridge?, too me it doesn't look very stable, and a bit cheap.

Wasn't a fan at all.

ehh maybe its just me, but yeah that was pretty much the one thing setting me back from buying it

 

[bovinehost]

Does that bridge look a lot like this one?

http://www.bovinehost.com/79ray/CSJazz4.jpg


Perfectly good bridges. Nothing terribly complex or groovy looking about them, but they work just fine. I wouldn't let that hold me up if I were you.

 

[shaver]

ah, i hate those bridges...i re drilled my bass to fit a new bridge in...i think its a fodera, but i should have just goten a "bad ass bridge"

 

[Rhys]

Yeah thats pretty much what it looked like!

still doesn't do it for me.. But sound over look right

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Hi Rhys....

>>>>Fender Jazz delux with active electro

>>>>the bridge?, too me it doesn't look very stable

I have a 97...no probs.

http://a0.cpimg.com/image/8E/57/16414350-9ae8-02000180-.jpg

 

[bovinehost]

Yeah, stable? They surely are. I've had more Fenders than I can remember, and SHOCKINGLY, the multi-million dollar Custom Shop Jazz I now play has a regular old Fender bridge.

Even more surprising - it works great. Does it LOOK like a space-age statue of a monkey screwing an arthropod? Nooooooo. Does it do what it's supposed to do? Yeeeeeeeees.

Don't let looks influence you too much. A bridge is supposed to intonate properly and hold your strings comfortably and not suck your tone dry. Most decent basses come with bridges that do those things. Fender bridges are fine.

OF COURSE, THEY AREN'T MUSICMAN BRIDGES.

Had to add that last bit due to forum name.

 

[phatcactus]

I find that the plainness of Fender bridges is quickly overcome with a set of chrome bridge and pickup covers from eBay. I just put some on my American Deluxe P-Bass, and now it' all yum lookin'.

Yeah, it kinda limits where you can pluck the strings, but it's sooo pretty!

 

[hands 5]

I wish the SR5 had the same type of bridge that my pre EB Sabre has because my Sabre plays like "butta" but Sr5 was very "stiff/tight which made me work to hard to play it which meant IT HAD TO GO !.because no matter what I tried to do with it , the feel just wasn't there.

 

[bovinehost]

Doesn't sound like a bridge problem to me.

 

[hands 5]

Doesn't sound like a bridge problem to me.

well the only thing I could and can compair the SR5 to are my other basses that has or had the feel that I was looking for or that I like to have that's to include my Fender Jazz ,Tobias,MTD , the afformention 79'Sabre( love this bass !)and the F bass that I will be purchasing. Now granted the preGibson Tobias (which has been sold) and the MTD 635(which will be sold)are high end basses so they should have nice playability.but the my Jazz basses(74 and mi 90's MIJ) are not high end basses but nonetheless played better than the SR5.
Like I said if it ain't happening It's outta here .I don't give a damn who it's made by. or I just might want something different for the hell of it.

 

[bovinehost]

"...but Sr5 was very "stiff/tight which made me work to hard to play it ..."

I hear you. If basses don't feel right, they don't last long at Camp Bovine, either, but I've owned quite a few SR5s and "stiff" and "tight" are not two words I've ever used to describe how they played.

Sounds to me like either a setup issue (too much relief or saddles too high or a combination of both) or a string issue (Rotosound flats come to mind, although there are other high tension strings out there).

 

[hands 5]

"...but Sr5 was very "stiff/tight which made me work to hard to play it ..."

I hear you. If basses don't feel right, they don't last long at Camp Bovine, either, but I've owned quite a few SR5s and "stiff" and "tight" are not two words I've ever used to describe how they played.

Sounds to me like either a setup issue (too much relief or saddles too high or a combination of both) or a string issue (Rotosound flats come to mind, although there are other high tension strings out there).

I think if I would have had more patience with this bass I proably could have tried to really take time to set it up right however "Patience is not my virtue,with that being said it might not have been my favorite of the basses that I own or owned but the SR5 did a few things that my other basses just didn't do in some settings........O yeah ! BTW the SR5 is very capable in a Jazz type setting because I used it in one.