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G&L Club Part 4

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#401
Those of you that have a Tribute L2500 could you please tell me the weight?

I'm considering getting one but in my old age weight has become a factor I cannot ignore...

Thanks in advance

Oh yeah... I cant find any near to where I live so it will have to be an internet buy... so no try-ee before buy-ee
 
#403
Just a headsup to my fellow G&L clubbers.
I JUST listed my amazing semi hollow 2009 G&L ASAT UnLined Fretless 4HH with ebony board, ash semi hollow body, Satin neck and Deluxe G&L Tolex case.
Here is a pic of her and a link to the thread....
Wanted to give you guys first Dibs notice.
I am keeping my number as well.
I will be holding onto my Butterscotch Blonde L2K :D

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f126/...ss-4hh-ash-ebony-tolex-case-new-minty-824823/

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#406
topcat2069 said:
Those of you that have a Tribute L2500 could you please tell me the weight?

I'm considering getting one but in my old age weight has become a factor I cannot ignore...

Thanks in advance

Oh yeah... I cant find any near to where I live so it will have to be an internet buy... so no try-ee before buy-ee
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The weight on G&Ls can vary quite a bit. Try finding an older used US model L2500 with the ash or maple over basswood- those ones are typically lighter than the solid body ones. My first G&L was an L2500 with ash over basswood (they call it "American Tilia" instead of basswood though) and that bass was killer and lighter than 10 lbs.
 
#407
topcat2069 said:
Those of you that have a Tribute L2500 could you please tell me the weight?

I'm considering getting one but in my old age weight has become a factor I cannot ignore...

Thanks in advance

Oh yeah... I cant find any near to where I live so it will have to be an internet buy... so no try-ee before buy-ee
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Mine weighs 11lbs on a good day. A solid-ash 5-string just isn't going to be light, sorry to say. :hmm:
 
#408
hey guys I had a chance to rab a 86 sb-1 at a good price . and grabbed it.

cleaned it up good new strings ....:D
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here is one with my stage rig small bars and such.

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head stocks.

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had the asat for the last year or so.

just had to tell some place that enjoys these basses as much as I do
 
#411
A question for the owners of first style SB2 basses - can you describe the tones available from these pickups? I'm looking to replace the Darkstars in my Landing LDS2 with something from G&L so I suppose I should consider the single coils. Also, are these pickups similar in construction and output to the standard MFDs?
 
#412
sunbeast said:
Looks just like mine! Also, since yours is a Tribute, there is a seperate ground wire coming from the copper plate at the bottom of each pickup right? On older US models this ground wire was hard-wired to one of the pickup ground wires so that if you changed the coil switching sometimes it wouldn't be grounded correctly on one of the pickups so you would get buzzing if you touched the polepieces. I feel like I'd heard that Tributes had this as a seperate 5th wire from the pickups already though...
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The separate thicker wire coming each pickup cavity is actually shielding the cavity. The green pickup wire is soldered to one to one end of that copper plate and then another green wire is soldered to the other end. When you connect the green wire to ground the pickup is shielded. I'm sure this is to save space on wiring but if the green wire is "lifted" then that plate is no longer shielding. I connected a separate wire to each of the copper pickup plates and then to the copper foil shielding I have in each pickup cavity so that the plates are always connected to ground.
 
#413
Just got a l2000 tribute and wondering if its normal for the E string to sound as if there is a chorus effect on it. This is with the bass in either passive or active, dont know if this is the normal G & L sound.

Also do any of you guys have small hands and play these necks, having a tough time with the thickness.

Thanks
 
#414
vroc38 said:
A question for the owners of first style SB2 basses - can you describe the tones available from these pickups? I'm looking to replace the Darkstars in my Landing LDS2 with something from G&L so I suppose I should consider the single coils. Also, are these pickups similar in construction and output to the standard MFDs?
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The pickups are very powerful MFD's, no doubt about it. Tone descriptions are usually funny and hard to convey,especially when typing on a tablet (like I'm doing).

The switch on my SB2 is broken so I have it wired both pickups on. However, I had a Lynx bass which was the same electronics scheme and loved the pickups soloed. Bridge pickup is mid-rangey and barks aggressively. Love it. Neck is boomier, and I almost never soloed it. Ironically, I got a 1st Gen SB1, which is just an SB2 with neck soloed, and it sounds awesome.

If I were going to put singles in a J bass, these would be my 1st choice.

I love when people talk about the 1st Gen SB2 b/c those things kill and can't get enough attention.
 
#415
I tried wiring my bass up like the wiring diagram I came up with and it was a big goose egg. The neck switch worked like it should but the bridge didn't. I wired it up like DavePlaysBass's diagram (I have it on post #389 on page 10) and it works like a charm! I'm not sure if I'll be using much else but SCWBB!

Now I'm finished monkeying with this thing!

Final results:

Stock preamp has been pulled. Pickup selector switch is still there, as well as stock volume and bass controls. Each pickup has their own parallel/inner single/series switch and they're connected to a 500k push/pull treble pot switch which then run to 0.1 mfd capacitors for single coil with bass boost mode. When the push/pull knob is down I've got parallel/inner single/scwbb, and when I pull the knob up scwbb becomes series. I don't know how scwbb sounds with a 250k treble, but it sure sounds good with the 500k treble!
 
#418
Glad you found a setup that works!

I'd bet the bridge pickup on the other didn't work right because on my setup you would have had to ground the copper plate individually of any of the pickup wires. If you grounded the back plate without lifting the green pickup wire, it would mean that the green wire from the pickup was always grounded, so that (using my version of the wiring), the single coil and scwbb sections would have been all screwy on the bridge pickup switch. Had you not grounded each pickup plate as you did, my version would have worked, but those two modes would have been a little noisier- fixing it would have been a simple matter of making the green lead from the pickup independant of the ground plate. For some reason I had thought that this was already done on Tributes based on some posts in the other forum, but they must have just been talking about the extra shielding in the pickup cavity.

Either way- glad you got it working and I'm glad you gave scwbb a shot. It is definitely my fave setting, especially blended with a little single coil from the other pickup to get a bit of noise cancellation.

fourstringbliss said:
I tried wiring my bass up like the wiring diagram I came up with and it was a big goose egg. The neck switch worked like it should but the bridge didn't. I wired it up like DavePlaysBass's diagram (I have it on post #389 on page 10) and it works like a charm! I'm not sure if I'll be using much else but SCWBB!

Now I'm finished monkeying with this thing!

Final results:

Stock preamp has been pulled. Pickup selector switch is still there, as well as stock volume and bass controls. Each pickup has their own parallel/inner single/series switch and they're connected to a 500k push/pull treble pot switch which then run to 0.1 mfd capacitors for single coil with bass boost mode. When the push/pull knob is down I've got parallel/inner single/scwbb, and when I pull the knob up scwbb becomes series. I don't know how scwbb sounds with a 250k treble, but it sure sounds good with the 500k treble!
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#419
sunbeast said:
Glad you found a setup that works!

I'd bet the bridge pickup on the other didn't work right because on my setup you would have had to ground the copper plate individually of any of the pickup wires. If you grounded the back plate without lifting the green pickup wire, it would mean that the green wire from the pickup was always grounded, so that (using my version of the wiring), the single coil and scwbb sections would have been all screwy on the bridge pickup switch. Had you not grounded each pickup plate as you did, my version would have worked, but those two modes would have been a little noisier- fixing it would have been a simple matter of making the green lead from the pickup independant of the ground plate. For some reason I had thought that this was already done on Tributes based on some posts in the other forum, but they must have just been talking about the extra shielding in the pickup cavity.

Either way- glad you got it working and I'm glad you gave scwbb a shot. It is definitely my fave setting, especially blended with a little single coil from the other pickup to get a bit of noise cancellation.
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We'll see how noisy the scwbb is. I usually play in a really RF noisy room but I'll probably be using both pickups on scwbb so they'll hum cancel anyway. Thanks again for the help!
 
#420
My latest. Found a 3-bolt L2K fretless. 1.5" nut width, ghostlined ebony, really vibrant clear green finish (the pics don't do it justice). Came with old flats on it and it sounds great. Lots of fun slipping and sliding around on it.
 

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