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Installing Soaps on a Burner?
Recently bought my 2nd Smith Bass, A Burner (Solid Ash, 5 string), Although this one is Really "Smithish" as it came with an Aguilar OBP-3 with 2 bands of mid. its an 18 volt system and the bass sounds very nice actually, the install is clean the cavity fit both batteries quite nicely although a bit tight.... Anyway
Was thinking about buying a set of soapbars and having the bass routed as well as a new Smith pre. My question .... Would the soapbars work out OK with the tighter 16mm spacing? - T |
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Why?
What P/U's are on it now?
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the standard Burner J PuPs with the full "Ken Smith" name on them
Im really just asking for curiosity but I do Kinda feel like Im missing something, it is a Smith, I want a Smith Preamp. As for the soaps I was just curious if that would work |
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Hmm....
Well, on the Burner, if I remember right, the spacing is 9mm at the Nut and 16mm at the bridge. With that spacing the strings would not line up over the poll pieces on the Smith P/U's for a Smith 5. Would it work, maybe, but I wouldn't do it. Why? Because I like precision and accuracy. I use the poll pieces on the Smith Soap-bars to "dial-in" each string up and down the neck for a consistent output level. The adjustments I make are small, however, my ear hears the the benefit of this adjustment (if needed). If you have strings falling outside the range of the poll pieces, I suspect you may have some challenges with output level consistency up and down the neck.
On my '99 burner 6, I have the Smith flat-top soap-bars. With the flat-top's there's no need to adjust.
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Dang!
Dang! I need to type faster I guess. Ken, once again has beat me to the punch on this.
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Thanks Tim, I appreciate the effort, for real! - T |
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Burner & Soaps..
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Happy New Year -T |
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