Squier Bronco Bass Pickguard Mod

I had a look this morning at my Squier Bronco short scale bass. 

 I changed the pickguard to an orange one which I think looks very good. 

I was going to change the pickup from the Strat single coil to a Vanson hot rail humbucker but changed my mind. I don't like how the blades are arched so the outer strings would be about 2mm further from the blades than the centre two - a 33% difference! But I liked the original pickup anyway despite it being low output so will stick with that for the time being. 

I was pleased to see that the pots are decent Korean Alpha pots. 

 

 

Squire Bronco Short-Scale Bass

New Fender Squier Bronco short-scale bass! It sounds good as it is, but I've got a Vansen Hot Rail humbucker pickup for it, and a jazzy orange pickguard!

I'll do a 'before and after' comparison between the two pickups, but here's a spectrogram with the standard Strat-type pickup. You can get a good variety of tones with the four strings and the tone pot.