[crippleddisposition]

I am looking at buying eather a gibson grabber or G3 they bolth look the same but the pickus are different was wondering what one people think is better

[Redbird]

I had a Grabber and it has a great gritty rock tone.

The G-3 is generally considered by many to be the best sounding of the Ripper/Grabber/G-3 trio. Many dissagree of coarse.

It's not so much which sounds better, but which sound you prefer.


The G-3 has single coil Pickups and has a great Fenderish bright clean sound, while the Grabber has just one humbucker with a great gritty, but more limited sound.The Fretless Grabber is also supposed to sound great. The sliding pickup does not alter the sound that much.

I know people who love each, including the Ripper. The Ripper has the best bass neck that my son or myself have ever played. The Grabbers neck is a lot thicker to me. The G-3, I do not know about it's neck.

You should decide if versitility is what you want, then go for a G-3 or Ripper. The Grabber has a great rock sound, but only that sound.

[jules]

I'd say the G3, but then I prefer the ripper to either of them. Redbirds right, the G1 sound is a bit limited. I don't have one just now, but when I did, the pup was always as near to the bridge as possible, so thats even less variation!

I guess the pickup doesn't quite slide far enough. Perhaps there are reasons for this - but it would have been good to have the pickup right near the bridge or right near the neck. Isn't there a Dan Armstrong guitar (bass too?) with a pickup that does that?

Jules

[crippleddisposition]

i was wondering what the ripper sounds like compaired to the grabber or the G-3

[Redbird]

Rippers are more subtle than either . I had a black fretted one and I could get a nice low sound, an articulate clean sound and a nasel varitone tone. I really liked the Ripper, actually they all are good basses in their own right.

The G-3 is going to be much more Fenderish & brighter. The bass player from green Day played one one their Dokey LP

From "Guitar World "


This other bass player I knew in Minneapolis was like "Hey I got this old Gibson that I just bought for $180. If you want it. I'll sell it to you"
It was a G-3 Grabber, with three pickups, and he hadn't really played it yet. I plugged it into my Yamaha amp, hit one note and said, "I'll take it!"
His jaw hit the floor; that one note sounded so great, he knew he'd screwed up. He let me pay him when I got home from the tour; He charged me $180, but I sent him $200 bucks. I used it on Kerplunk! through Insomniac, and I toured with it for well over 500 shows. I finally retired it after about the third time it's neck broke, but I still have it at home.




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[doom]

but it would have been good to have the pickup right near the bridge or right near the neck. Isn't there a Dan Armstrong guitar (bass too?) with a pickup that does that?

The only Dan Armstrong model I know of with a moving pickup is the lucite model where you can switch differently wound pickups (at one location) between songs for a different sound. It is close to the bridge though.