DIY: How to Mod Your Bass with a Badass Bridge
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The Leo Quan Badass Bridge, a staple mod of the 1970s that came to favor for its extremely accurate intonation and additional mass, is enjoying a resurgence, and adding one to any bass with a 5-screw bridge is an easy upgrade.
How easy? Spend 5 minutes with Marshall Dunn, currently touring as Steve Earle’s guitar tech and co-founder of Nashville’s Stage Right Repairs, and he’ll show you. Special thanks to Music City indie venue Eastside Bowl, where we filmed Dunn at work on a stock Fender Mustang Bass.
Dunn starts by removing the strings and bridge screws, and cautions against removing the ground wire. Even though this is a quick mod, Dunn suggests taking it slow and steady (like all work done on your instrument), so he confirms the screw-hole alignment and shows you how to use a tape measure to confirm that the saddles are at the correct scale length for the instrument. He next shows how to use the two strings he removed from the bass initially to check the alignment of the new strings with the fretboard. It’s a matter of checking the relationship of the strings for proper spacing. The saddle notches in the Badass Bridge make that alignment even easier.
Once the Badass is installed, he explains how to do a quick, proper setup-and then it’s time to plug into a Fender Rumble 500 and let the Mustang and its new bridge do the talking. “Ultimately,” Dunn concludes, “I think if you’re going to mod your instrument and it’s gonna make you like it more, it’s gonna make you want to play it more …that’s the whole point. It’s pretty cool what you can do with just a couple of hand tools and just a little bit of time.”
For more information on Leo Quan Badass Bridges, go to allparts.com.
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00:00 - Pre-Mod Playing Demo
00:28 - Background Info on Bass & Badass Bridge
01:10 - Step 1. Remove the Strings & Stock Bridge
01:42 - Step 2. Check the Bridge Location
02:04 - Step 3. Measure the Scale Length
02:38 - Step 4. Check String Spacing, Insert Screws & Add Strings
03:23 - Step 5. Redo Basic Setup & Intonation Check
03:46 - Post-Mod Playing Demo
04:41 - Project Conclusion
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They definitely add sustain and top end/brightness. I put Leo Quan Badasses on all my basses. None of the knock offs, only the real thing.
Agreed. Especially the old school ones, they are the way to go. Best bridges ever.
I smiled with all my teeth upon hearing “Willie the Pimp.” Thank you.
A little Willie the Pimp in the beginning I dig
Awesome. Hugs from Brazil !
High Density zinc alloy. Individual string height adjustment, perfect intonation.
I bought a $20 knockoff BA bridge. On amazon..looks and sounds great..heavy duty.. i put it on my early 90s mex pbass...love it..made it way better.
Nice
Link please for the Bridge! Thank you.
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?
Hard to tell in the video, but will the grooves accommodate larger strings for a BEAD setup?
I have this bass and the sustain is pretty bad, I had no idea a new bridge could help
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.
It’s sounds brighter are those new strings on the last demo?
Same strings as pre mod.
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.
Nice but strings though the body would optimize this bass ?
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.
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.
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Change the strings instead
Exactly
He doesnt tell us if he can tell the difference? Waste of time dude
I noticed absolutely no difference.