I bought it!

[tramp]

This past weekend, I drove 120 miles to try out an L2000. I liked it so much, I bought it. The sound is fantastic althought I am still searching for my settings. Trying to get a little growl out of it. I lowered the E string as it is too high and there was a fret buzz on the frets below the A fret. The string saddle was all the way down which put the string at a good height. The neck looks pretty straight. I have never adjusted the truss on anything so I am a little nervous about that. I would hate to mess up anything. Any suggestions.

tramp

[Youngspanion]

Don't touch it. Truss rods are very tricky and if you don't have experience with it, don't do it.

Of course you may still try. If you do, remember. Turn the truss rod only a quarter of a turn and then give the neck some days to settle in. You'll want to losen the nut. That will add relief to the neck, and add some bow.


Good luck


steve

[quickervicar]

Congratulations, Tramp! You'll love it even more after gigging with it.

A hint on the "growl" settings:

-both p'ups on
-series wiring (second switch set to forward position)
-preamp on
-treble on 10
-bass on 8

Try that out. You may need to adjust pickup & polepiece heights down the road to get even string-to-string volume, but get the action set up first.

[floydman]

another setting suggestion, my current favorites :
neck pickup, series, passive, bass at 3 treble at 4

or
bridge pickup only, passive parallel bass at 6 treble at 4

[unclejane]

Originally Posted by tramp

This past weekend, I drove 120 miles to try out an L2000. I liked it so much, I bought it. The sound is fantastic althought I am still searching for my settings. Trying to get a little growl out of it. I lowered the E string as it is too high and there was a fret buzz on the frets below the A fret. The string saddle was all the way down which put the string at a good height. The neck looks pretty straight. I have never adjusted the truss on anything so I am a little nervous about that. I would hate to mess up anything. Any suggestions.

tramp

My WAG is the neck is too flat for your tastes, so you might try loosening the rod (the rod works in same direction as a bolt - lefty-loosy/righty-tighty). This will add some releif.

The bottomed out saddles may be an issue. I'm accustomed to this on my fretless models because the saddles are _always_ too high on fretless models .

On a fretted, tho, if bottoming a saddle and the string is still too high you may have to do some more adjusting. The easiest/lowest cost thing to do is file down the saddle groove with a good carbide nut file (make sure the groove is rounded so there are no sharp bends in the string where it goes through the groove). The older 3-bolt G&L's had the ability to adjust the tilt of the neck, if it had that I'd try adjusting the tilt "down" so that the heel is raised a bit. If the saddles are way high, like they were on my L2000, the tilt might not have enough adjustment to get the strings high enough.

I wouldn't mess with shimming the neck. That involves taking apart a perfectly good bass and destabilizing the neck/body joint in unknown ways with a shim. Filing the saddles is the better option here.

All this is assuming the string height at the nut is correct. If that's off the open strings will be all wrong and fretting will require too much effort if too high, etc.

LS

[Bulltrout]

This is all good stuff, but, where are the pictures?

[El Tookay]

Originally Posted by quickervicar

Congratulations, Tramp! You'll love it even more after gigging with it.

A hint on the "growl" settings:

-both p'ups on
-series wiring (second switch set to forward position)
-preamp on
-treble on 10
-bass on 8

Try that out. You may need to adjust pickup & polepiece heights down the road to get even string-to-string volume, but get the action set up first.

....we have a WINNER! This is exactly my go-to setting. Big, mean, BALLSY! Like crackin' the throttle on a big Harley....

[tramp]

I will post a picture of it tonight. It is a player!

[tramp]

Here are the pictures of my L2000. I love this color.

[wyleeboxer]

Originally Posted by quickervicar

Congratulations, Tramp! You'll love it even more after gigging with it.

A hint on the "growl" settings:

-both p'ups on
-series wiring (second switch set to forward position)
-preamp on
-treble on 10
-bass on 8

Try that out. You may need to adjust pickup & polepiece heights down the road to get even string-to-string volume, but get the action set up first.

Yeah Ive been running the bridge pup only, but the other night I switched to this setting except I use passive... after tweaking my pre-amp on the amp, bass flat and boosting the highs and mids, DAMN HUGE!

[El Tookay]

Originally Posted by tramp

Here are the pictures of my L2000. I love this color.

.....yep, me too..........

[sbassface]

honeyburst baby!

[chunkstyle]

i'm all for innovation, and there will always be room in my quiver for a neato bass or something different and cool...

but the L-2000 is it for me. excellent purchase.