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For sale Price Reduction! G&L Custom Shop Fallout Bass

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G&L Custom Shop Fallout Bass

And the hits keep coming as I need to free up some space in the house and in the budget. This is one I’ll assuredly hate to see go.

This is a 2022 Fallout Bass from G&L’s Custom Shop in Blackburst over swamp ash with a quartersawn 2A flamed maple neck.

The Custom Shop obviously turns out the best BBE has to offer and this bass is no exception.

Nice light weight at 7 lbs, 14.1 oz.

It is cosmetically excellent with the plastic still on the pick guard and it plays and sounds the business as you might expect. It will come to you in its original Custom Shop case with its COA and all other paperwork that came with.

Everybody needs a nice Shorty these days, no?

If I have my figures right, this bass would list for $3750. Not sure how street price relates after the most recent pricing changes, but nothing from the CS comes cheap.

It can be yours for $1999 plus shipping to the lower 48.

Hit me up with any questions or for specific pictures you might like.

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Mar 3, 2009
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Hotchkiss, Colorado
Top of the list, I hope?

It's very alluring! Of all the modern short scales, the Fallout is my favorite body shape.

I'm mostly looking at medium scale Jazz style instruments, but I love short scales and would like to replace my vintage Mustang I let go of last year.

What is the total profile of this G&L? I've never had a humbucker with a splitter switch before, I'm super curious how what sonic options that offers. I also wish I could play this bass, I've never picked up a Fallout before.
 

ahbass2500

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Nov 28, 2003
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What is the tonal profile of this G&L? I've never had a humbucker with a splitter switch before, I'm super curious how what sonic options that offers. I also wish I could play this bass, I've never picked up a Fallout before.

Basically a P-bass with a little extra. MFD pickups are high output. The coil tap switch adds tonal variety (series with treble cut on one coil/split coil/parallel).

Series with treble cut is high output and thumpy. Due to the treble cut on one coil there is a little hum in this mode. Don’t be afraid to cut volume on this setting.

Split coil is closer to standard P-bass. Keeping in mind the MFD is high output so it is quite vintage P bass.

Parallel is close in tone to split but is audibly different when you hear them side by side. Trying to think how to explain the difference and I think maybe it is a touch of mid scoop as this is frequently described as a more slap friendly setting.

The great thing about the Fallouts is that they don’t feel tiny like some short scale basses. You get the short scale feel without the feeling that you are playing a toy. Recognizing some people like the smaller short scales. They just never felt right to me and the Fallout does.
 
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Jfp

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Not much to add to what Ahad writes except to mention that the series with treble cut is also known as OMG (as in Oh My God! thats bodacious) mode.

be happy to answer any other questions you may have.
 

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