You don't need to mod it. It sounds better than most other basses.

Bought a bronco bass years ago, I did a ton of different mods over the years and finally did a full refinish and overhaul to make it one of my favorite basses I own 🤟

Bronco bass in stock form is fine. Sounds plenty good. I’d have no problem gigging it.

My son played his red Bronco until it fell apart and graduated to an Ibanez, so I rebuilt the Bronco with a ridiculously large MM Stingray bass pickup and it sounds awesome. I later acquired a black Bronco and rebuilt it with a dual-rail humbucker. Never found the need to replace the tuners or the bridge but I added iron-on white trim around the edges of both instruments, so now they are a matching red / black / white pair. My wife (unknowingly) christened them the "Bucking Broncos"! It's not hard to transform a Bronco into something like the Mustang bass - I have one of those, too.

I bought a pink one for CME. I bought it specifically to mod it, I went all out, more dollars than sense. I used Gibson mudbucker I’d been carrying sound since the mid 70s, in the middle I used a Fralin 52 Fender P bass and in bridge position it has a Lollar T-bird. I used a Badass bridge. No spacing issues. Gears are backwards turning Schallers. Strat Switching and push pull knobs gets every pickup choice. Wood needed to be added to the headstock to allow the tuning gears to fit. It’s an awesome bass, fun to play and very versatile. I play it through a B-15 clone loaded with a JBL D130, or a Vox AC-15 Mkii through a Foundation cab. Usually I just use my 64 Princeton. Great for recording. I’m 71 and I dont perform anymore but I still play as often as I’m able. Yours turned out nice. I’d love to send you a photo.

Bravo! Totally awesome modification. Sounds amazing. 👍

I just put a standard p-bass style bridge on mine and a seymour duncan li'l 59 humbucker (in single coil format) for hum free playing and have played it that way since 2007. Flat wounds sound extra good on this bass.

You did an awesome job on your Bronco Bass!👍 I put a set of Fender Jazz Bass pickups in my Bronco Bass.

8:41 lol at the walking polisher

I Just installed the pickup that you suggested. Huge improvement! Thanks!

Pretty cool. Enjoyed the video. I'm a short scale player as well.

Amazing video and great bass transformation

Good job its much better,iv you seen the new Broncos ? They changed those crappy tunners and put in a new bridge too. The artic white looks awesome.

This is awesome! I hope to do something like this in the future.

Looks fantastic. Black tapewounds would really make it pop, although change the sound.

wow love it .i have to do that maybe with some mustang pickups. thanks so muck for providing the links very much appreciated

A buddy of mine just found one of these in the trash. He brought it to me to play around with so we will see what happens. Got some good ideas from your video.

Beautiful job. I'm just finishing an even cheaper,(well initially) version using the Glarry Bronco copy,($75). I've replaced the pickup with a Nordstrum 51 P bass model,($125) wait it gets worse lol ! Replaced the disgusting white pickguard with a tortoise version, the same company you used,($30). Prewired wiring harness,($45).......I'm lazy : ) and came withing a click of swapping the neck ! Instead I removed the neck and sanded front/back and applied 10 coats of tru oil. I'm reserving the right to change the neck if it just sucks. So I'm left with a stock body,neck.....for now and bridge. Hey it's still cheaper than therapy lol !

It came out great! The blacked out hardware is way cooler. I did the same mods to a Squier modified Jaguar. Original tone was disappointing. Swapped pickups, bridge, pots, wiring, tuners, all hardware and knobs black and I even repainted it with hot rod paint I found on line that comes in a rattle can. Looked way cooler and I was really floored by the difference in tone. It's now one of my main go-to basses.

To a large extent, my mood is improved by gray-headed wise men for whom 30" is a "short scale". At the time when I made my first acquaintance with a bass - 45 years ago - a large number of world-renowned bass players considered 30"-30.5" to be the normal standard. The commercial short scale label tends to be a XXI century marketing gimmick.🤓

Great Job!

Nice mods, looking at getting a short scale bass

That bass is fine for what it is supposed to be.

Awesome mod. I really enjoyed the video. I would have went with a higher quality pic-up to go with the rest of the upgrades. The tonal difference from the demo was hard to hear. A custom shop 51 P pic-up perhaps? (Then you have spent well over twice the cost of a new Bronco though).

So this bass comes with a stock 6-pole piece Strat pickup?!? That’s CRAZY! I’m guessing that this might be part of the reason for the 17mm string spacing: To line the strings up decently between the pole pieces… No WONDER they had the pole pieces totally covered on that stock pickup! I totally get that Fender might have wanted to use standard off-the-shelf parts that were economical, but given how practically everything else about this bass seems to be specific to this particular model, it doesn’t seem like much of a saving. At the very least, why couldn’t they just use a T-bass pickup as you did?

Wow-looks great.

Hm… It sounds almost like a regular guitar now. Too much high end. I liked the stock pickup a bit more, although it is admittedly noisy.

Good Job

Couldn't you use Mustang replacement parts? IIRC, my Squier Classic Vibe Mustang is 19mm string spacing, but it feels like you should be able to slap one of those bridges onto a Bronco. Great work eitherway! I've also always liked the way the Bronco looks. If they just had lollipop tuners the Bronco would be a 10/10 in looks IMO.

amazing job, but one of the most important part is to show and feel how it sounds after all this work, was just a couple of seconds without hit hard the strings or at least show the results. anyway, nice video.

How did the string alignment over the pickup’s pole pieces turn out? I imagine the pickup was designed for a standard P-bass.

I want one!!!!!!

The bridge isn't hard to find at all... they're all over Amazon

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Can I take a look at the back of the headstock after you replaced the tuners? :D

Was your scratchplate a direct drop-in replacement?

That was a guitar pickup!

Thanks for the video. You sure nut width is 38.1mm? Cheers

Is Bronco bass original pickup is kind of stratocaster pickup?

did you change the pot and wher did you get them

Budget bass!!!

Isn't it possible to just throw a rail pickup in there? No problems with alignment right?

I want one so bad

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what pickup did you add in?

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