Hi!! DUMB QUESTION Alert re my L-2000 Tribby

OldSchoolBass · #1 07-03-2007, 11:07 AM

First, I bought through a friend of a friend, and it looks great. Blueburst, maple neck, sweet. For $250 I felt like Jesse James.

Played it at a show the other day, and going blind, plugged in and thought one of my speakers was shot.

Turned out I was maxing this and "diming" that, and the PU's are way powerful, etc. Hence the distorted sound. So I have to play around and work on the settings to get rid of that semi-distorted sound. Ok - cool. Make sense? I read a few thread that had the same issue, so THANK GOD it's not one of my speakers.

Leads me to the second part of my question. Three knobs, three switches.

Um, can anyone walk me through these six controls? And apologies for my ignorance. Always been a TONE / VOLUME kinda guy.

lug · #2 07-03-2007, 11:11 AM

Here's a linky to everything you want to know!!!!

G&L FAQ and Links: Please read first before posting

OldSchoolBass · #3 07-03-2007, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by lug

Here's a linky to everything you want to know!!!!

G&L FAQ and Links: Please read first before posting

Funny, just saw that handy-dandy FAQ section. D'OH!!!!!!

I'm Jack Kass, nice to meet ya.

OldSchoolBass · #4 07-03-2007, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by lug

Here's a linky to everything you want to know!!!!

G&L FAQ and Links: Please read first before posting

As far as the toggles go, when it says "forward" - does that mean towards the pickups/neck, or forward as in puching forward to the floor? I obviously could listen and figure it out, but I figured I would complete my stupidity here and now.

Thanks again for the link!

Orpheus55 · #5 07-05-2007, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by OldSchoolBass

As far as the toggles go, when it says "forward" - does that mean towards the pickups/neck, or forward as in puching forward to the floor? I obviously could listen and figure it out, but I figured I would complete my stupidity here and now.

Thanks again for the link!

Forward means toward the floor. FWIW, I usually play with both pickkups on (center), center switch back, and preamp switch (last) back.

tornadobass · #6 07-05-2007, 09:22 AM

At least on my L-1000, the switches actually went toward the neck and the bridge. On my Tribute L-2500, they go up and down...but the instructions must be written for the US version, hence bridge-neck directions rather than up-down.

fourstringbliss · #7 07-05-2007, 10:25 AM

The first switch is the pickup selector, and up is the neck pup. The second switch is the series/parallel switch - up is usually parallel, but you'll have to experiment with this (the fatter one is series). The third switch is passive/active/active with treble boost. Up is passive, middle is active, and bottom is active w/treble boost.

I usually have my bass set at about 50% or the sound is way too thick. I am using a Sansamp, though, which really thickens the tone.

Hope this helps!

tornadobass · #8 07-05-2007, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by fourstringbliss

The first switch is the pickup selector, and up is the neck pup. The second switch is the series/parallel switch - up is usually parallel, but you'll have to experiment with this (the fatter one is series).

On my Tribute L-2500, up is series and down is parallel. The other descriptions match, although I think the thickness is a key to the axe and it does well full out on volume & tone controls.

fourstringbliss · #9 07-05-2007, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by tornadobass

On my Tribute L-2500, up is series and down is parallel. The other descriptions match, although I think the thickness is a key to the axe and it does well full out on volume & tone controls.

My paralell was up and series was down on the L2000 Trib I used to own. This was reversed on my current L2500 Trib until I changed it. I'm with you about the thickness, but I find that with my Sansamp PBDDI I get all the thickness I could ever need in parallel. I've replaced the series/parallel switch with a singles inside/parallel/singles outside switch and it's just about perfect for me now.

OldSchoolBass · #10 07-09-2007, 10:54 AM

Like I said, it was the distorted sound that freaked me out. Turns out I was overloading something, using the wrong input - I am so used to passive pickups, I just turned everything up, and plugged into the wrong input and

I could land Apollo 12 with all of those buttons and switches - I have a bad habit of grabbing an unfamiliar bass just prior to a gig - (drives my drummer nuts)

this was me -

tornadobass · #11 07-09-2007, 11:07 AM

I think if you used the neck pickup in series with the preamp on, it'd be easy to overload some amps, even before the clip light comes on for the overall gain structure.

OTOH, I've done fine with mine in the passive/active input of an SWR SM-400 without any clipping.

fourstringbliss · #12 07-09-2007, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by OldSchoolBass

Like I said, it was the distorted sound that freaked me out. Turns out I was overloading something, using the wrong input - I am so used to passive pickups, I just turned everything up, and plugged into the wrong input and

I could land Apollo 12 with all of those buttons and switches - I have a bad habit of grabbing an unfamiliar bass just prior to a gig - (drives my drummer nuts)

this was me -

To be honest, it's probably just the really high output of these pickups. I found that I need to cut the bass in half when I'm playing through my Sansamp or I distort.

OldSchoolBass · #13 07-09-2007, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by fourstringbliss

To be honest, it's probably just the really high output of these pickups. I found that I need to cut the bass in half when I'm playing through my Sansamp or I distort.

I have a Hartke HA3000 and a Epifani NY 1 x 15 and a 2 x 12... Apparantly had the bass in the wrong input... Scared the corrrrapppp out of me, as I just had the one 12" replaced. I was like - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

But it was me. Mr. DoDo No-Nada about his bass.