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Epi EB 0 conversion to Mike Watt EB 3


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I have just paid for an Epiphone EB 0 short scale bass and expect deliver sooooooooon..... I got it 'cause I want to try and recreate a version of Mike Watt's EB 3.

Details here [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/interviews/mikewatt3.php"]http://www.flyguitars.com/interviews/mikewatt3.php[/url]

"With EB-3's, maybe the windings or the magnets, they were always mismatched, so when you used a preamp it buffered. The one thing I like is one volume knob. I like blending the pickups, but when you have two volumes, as soon as you go down or up, you loose your blend, so I like one volume knob and a blend control. So the chicken head knob, I turned that into a blend control and then one of the volumes is the volume and the other three knobs are bass, mid and treble. So that's how I got it set up. Both my Red and blue EB-3s have Aguilar OBP3 onboard preamps. I changed the guts to get rid of some of that muddiness."


I want the same controls (Varitone etc) as on Mike Watt's bass. Where can I get the components from?


Help appreciated - cheers

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[quote name='Pookus' post='428514' date='Mar 8 2009, 12:27 PM']I have just paid for an Epiphone EB 0 short scale bass and expect deliver sooooooooon..... I got it 'cause I want to try and recreate a version of Mike Watt's EB 3.

Details here [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/interviews/mikewatt3.php"]http://www.flyguitars.com/interviews/mikewatt3.php[/url]

"With EB-3's, maybe the windings or the magnets, they were always mismatched, so when you used a preamp it buffered. The one thing I like is one volume knob. I like blending the pickups, but when you have two volumes, as soon as you go down or up, you loose your blend, so I like one volume knob and a blend control. So the chicken head knob, I turned that into a blend control and then one of the volumes is the volume and the other three knobs are bass, mid and treble. So that's how I got it set up. Both my Red and blue EB-3s have Aguilar OBP3 onboard preamps. I changed the guts to get rid of some of that muddiness."


I want the same controls (Varitone etc) as on Mike Watt's bass. Where can I get the components from?


Help appreciated - cheers

[attachment=21676:watt_196...son_eb_3.jpg][/quote]

Found the preamp and wiring is all done here [url="http://www.bestbassgear.com/aguilar-obp3-preamp.htm"]http://www.bestbassgear.com/aguilar-obp3-preamp.htm[/url]

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