Recent content by bpabon

In fact, I'm in the midst of a similar mod to my L-1500 (I might also do the kiloton...) I swap the pickup selector to 3 way on/on/on And swap the bass control with a push/pull so when the coils are in series I can pull to select OMB and adjust in either case. Is G&L wiring deliberately sloppy...

Wow, @fig , this is amazing (to me) ! I have the wiring almost done (attached). I had to deviate a bit because I didn't have a .1uf cap so I used a .047f cap instead (at least for now). I assume that the coil select (a) goes out to the Active/Passive switch, where the active position send the...

Thank you all. Yes, this is becoming a PITA because I can buy an aftermarket pre amp for $100.... If I get these holes cleaned I'm tempted to put in little wire poles and the solder the wires to them, so I don't have to do this again.

100% this. I will respect the high quality comments with some more context: - the 9v battery was dead, so I opened the cavity. - the terminals corroded and required chemical and kinetic intervention. - the (30 yr old, fragile) preamp IN and DC in connections broke. - the bass tone pot had sloppy...

....so I decide to clean up my wiring harness, corroded connectors, brokend pots, etc. The preamp board uses through hole leads. I have been able to wick most of the old solder off and one leads dropped right out but the other holes are giving me grief with stubborn bits of wire and solder that...

I have had good luck with mine. There are some dead spots on the D string, but I love messing around with it. It made me decide to dive into fretless. Last month I got an old G&L L-1500 from a pawnshop. Apparently the quality of the finger board is really important with fretless because the G&L...

I had a recent experience related to this... Last year I bought cheap fretless on a whim because I had never played fretless before. It changed the way I think about the instrument (we play the string, not the fingerboard.....). The quality is terrible, the D string has spots where it rattles...

Just to clarify for folks who might scan the post too quickly. I'm not making a general observation about G&L weight, ergonomics, esthetics in general or fretless L-1500s in particular. I just bought a used bass online, pulled it out of the case and was not prepared for the sound. Wondering if...

Oh the gap is huge, and I don't mean to disparage the ($80, passive) Glarry. In fact, it was my gateway to fretless. I just wasn't prepared for this L-1500 (a non-famous model) to be as resonant. In terms of the active... even when it's unplugged it feels like a pipe organ. The first three...

... that might be what is happening. This fingerboard is ebony and the surface is really flat and even, like glass, but not as hard. The Glarry fingerboard looks like wood, with a perceptible grain. I suppose since G&L made instruments for people who played bass for a living they knew what they...

Ooh, I know this feeling. last year I came across the hardware of a G&L jb-2 and I have been day dreaming about possible necks, scales and wiring options....

I'm wondering if this situation is expected... (I'm a novice and have not played many basses.) Last year I tried a cheap (as in Glarry) fretless and I liked it. My kiloton is fretted and last month I stumbled across a fretless CLF L-1500 at a pawnshop. It's been played a lot so without much...

I happen to have both and it would be easy to describe the L-1500 as a kilo with a preamp. In my case they are very different but not for the reasons you might expect. The fretted tribute kiloton was last year's birthday gift to myself. The fretless CLF 1500 was a pawnshop find and, well it's...

Happy NBD, it's a beauty. Fwiw, my L-1500 is 3.63 Kg (8 freedom units), how much does the Fender weigh?

Wow...I hardly recognized Les Claypool, but I guess '94 was a while ago.