Billy Sheehan Bass Kit

[kimball492]

Billy Sheehan Bass Spec In addition to the split pickup, the BB714BS carries a specially designed double humbucker installed at the neck position where it generates great low-end tone. The front humbucker is wired through a push-pull high-cut circuit that lets you choose between a traditional "Attutude" neck pickup tone with high-end, or a bass boosted ultralow 60's sound.
Bridge


Bridge and other hardware are black nickel plated which is in addition to looking great, is good for the environment as well since it has no lead.
Neck

Billy's BB 714BS comes with a neck that is slim, trim, and fast. The rosewood on maple neck is thinner and trimmer than the Attitude bass and offers greater playing comfort.
Controls


1 : Woofer Pickup Volume
2 : Main Pickup Volume
3 : Master Tone With Push-Pull Switch

[keloooe]

The reason why Billy uses stereo outputs is so he can run each pickup in a different rig. Both rigs are practically identical, he even uses two wirelesses!

[wazkelly]

Best stereo effect is to run neck PUP to your low frequency rig with either 12's or 15's and bridge PUP to a higher frequency and/or overdriven amp setup run through 10's. Ends up sounding like 2 bass players playing in unison.

For the huge stages that he would work on wireless is the only way to go. I made my stereo patch lead from a 25' stereo mike lead with a female mic canon connector attached via a male canon connector with 2 mono tails 10' long each. All up it was 35' long which is around 11m in metric fed into 2 Boss DI units then into separate channels on my 100w Marshall Super Bass Amp Head and finally blasting out through a 4 x 12" 25w greenback celestion slant front quad box. The 4 x 10's setup most use today had only just started to become popular as I got married and stopped gigging in mid 80's. These days I am happy to use just a 10" or 12" combo for either guitar or bass as they have come a long way in the past 30 odd years since I last was gigging.