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Are they really that different?

#21
Chef said:
The one other thing to keep in mind with G&L:
the string spacing is narrower than most. This bothers some folks-like me-and not others.

ymmv.
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I played 19mm basses for 23 years before I took a chance on my first L2500. It took a lot of work to get comfortable, and after 2 years, I still wasn't totally comfortable. I even put 0.5mm shims between the saddles to give me a full 17.5mm (silly, yes, but it helped). However, I loved nearly everything else about the bass so much that I'm willing to keep at the narrow-spacing thing if I can get a new M-2500 to my own specs. The new M-line solves my other issues with the tone that I tried to solve on the L2500 through single-coil switching and an EMG preamp. If it's as good as I imagine, I'll be happy to deal with the spacing.

Oddly enough, the 17mm spacing and the lack of airy highs don't bother me at all on my fretless L2500. I am mainly running it to an external ACG EQ02 filter preamp now, and I may add single-coil switching, but I won't change anything else about that bass.
 
#22
Truth is, I have no idea what I want or need as far as new basses are concerned, so until I decide what that is, I'm just going to play the two basses I have. It's not like a Rob Allen Mouse and a Skyline 44-02 suck or anything.
 
#25
Of the 3 choices, if I were in a quandary between them, I'd go G&L just because you can get one for so much less money, they are GREAT basses, and they are so flexible, I have a hard time imagining a setting that you couldn't get one to fit in.
 
#26
I had a Yamaha BB614 years ago that had the Nathan East EQ built in like the NE2 does. Best on board EQ I have ever had on a bass. Easy to get a very workable sound solo or in a band.

And the Japan Yamahas are as well made as just about anything.
 
#27
You could nab my Schecter that's now hanging in Kenny's :D (assuming they haven't sold it yet). Not quite on the level of the basses you mentioned obviously, but hey it's very playable/comfortable and I can recall you saying you like the tone.
Plus it's cheap enough that for the price of the basses you're considering, you could mod the hell out of it and still be under budget... new pickups/pre and that thing would be a monster.

EDIT: My bad, you're looking for a 34". Precisely the reason I traded it away. In that case my vote goes to the Yamaha!
 
#30
Hands down. G&L M2000/2500. Awesome instruments with great neck and wonderful blend of traditional and modern. I've owned two L2500 basses (fretted and fret less) and I'll never go back now that I have a M series. I'd take it over a Fender any day too. Sadowsky Moderns are cool but they don't have the balls of a G&L.

Here's my M2500

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