People don’t understand you don’t need a big bridge. Would you like about those bridges is the saddles. The Bridge material itself does not give you sustain. It’s the saddles if they are made of brass or steel. Brass saddles will brighten things up but suck away your mids. If you like that then just get a bridge with thick brass saddles. The zinc material has nothing to do with the sound except adding a few extra pounds to the bass.
Good video, but I have a question about the replacement Quan Badass Bridge . Right now as we speak I just finished replacing the stock Bridge on my Gretsch G2220 4 string bass and I discovered it did drop in with ease except that the Badass Screws are longer and thicker with a larger screw head. I did not want to take the chance of damaging the bass body or stripping the old holes so I just used the old Chrome color ones. (or can I just use the replacement Badass screws without any issues) Will this be a problem as far as string tension pulling the bridge forward or not if I keep the old smaller screws in? right now it is very snug, but I haven.t restrung it because I'a going to spray paint the Pickup Rings Gold to match the other gold hardware. Thank you in advance to anybody else who might have had a similiar issue. Also were the screws different on the Badass than on the your stock Fender Mustang bridge?
If you loosen the strings a lot and retune them, they will sound fresher again. You can also pull on them a few times when they are loose and let them slap against the fingerboard. That, by the way, is the real effect when it comes to boiling out the strings. You can save yourself the boiling: Just loosen the strings, let them snap a few times, and they'll sound fresh again for a while.
I'm confused by this though - didn't Leo Quan stop making Bad Ass bridges some time ago? I've seen a couple of bass rig interviews where the tech said when they found out they were stopping them, they went out and bought as many as they could so they had them to fit that nay new bass they got could be fitted with one. One of those techs was Geddy Lee's tech. I've seen them online and they're about £120.00 which is about $140.00 or so. Expensive. And now rare.
I'm not sure how I would know if there was a difference in sustain, I didn't hear it before you changed it... no baseline to compare to. Take your word.
