Hejsann hoppsan!Hejsan Aasmund,
a fellow Scandinavian
Gotta love that L2000! But, dude, you gotta post pics...
Mine is really growing on me ...
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Go kvell
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Ok, here's a crappy picture of a happy scandinavian!
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Ok, here's a crappy picture of a happy scandinavian!
Nice!
Brand new or new to you?
Does yours suffer from excessive "spring ping" like mine did? You may have noticed me complaining about it a few weeks ago here in this thread and fixing it real easy based on the advice I got from club members...
Brand new or new to you?
Does yours suffer from excessive "spring ping" like mine did? You may have noticed me complaining about it a few weeks ago here in this thread and fixing it real easy based on the advice I got from club members...
Brand new!
Since G&L doesn't have any distributors in Norway, I didn't have a chance to try one. I have actually never tried a G&L instrument before today. But it did meet my expectations, and I'll keep it for sure!
I tried tapping the bridge and some quiet slapping (don't wanna wake up anyone). There's a small noise, but I don't know if I'd noticed it if you hadn't made me aware. If it turns out to be a problem, I'll probably do something with it, but right now it's fine like it is.
Was it a loud ping? Because the sound I heard was almost unnoticeable.
Any way this bass is miles over my older bass, a OLP MM2. And at a very reasonable price!
Since G&L doesn't have any distributors in Norway, I didn't have a chance to try one. I have actually never tried a G&L instrument before today. But it did meet my expectations, and I'll keep it for sure!
I tried tapping the bridge and some quiet slapping (don't wanna wake up anyone). There's a small noise, but I don't know if I'd noticed it if you hadn't made me aware. If it turns out to be a problem, I'll probably do something with it, but right now it's fine like it is.
Was it a loud ping? Because the sound I heard was almost unnoticeable.
Any way this bass is miles over my older bass, a OLP MM2. And at a very reasonable price!
Actually, since it turned out to be the pup support springs causing the ping, the ping was (nearly) inaudible without amplification ... when playing without amp I didn't think anything of it. At first practice night, hooked up to the amp, it was unbearable. If ther head been no cure I would have sold the bass as quickly as possible.
Ok, here's a crappy picture of a happy scandinavian!
That thing looks gorgeous! I really don't understand why G&L doesn't offer the walnut finish on USA models. I can't even get whiskey on a bass! Stupid Jerry Cantrell, grumble, grumble.
Folks, I need some help.
I have a L2000 Tribute that I've done some major wiring work to. I removed the preamp, installed separate parallel/single coil/series switches, replaced the tone with a 500k pot, and installed a push/pull volume so I could switch between stock series and OMG mode. In the last few months I've noticed that there's a staticky fuzziness when I play in OMG mode, and tonight it is happening when I play in single coil mode. I'm also getting a hum when I touch the pickup pole pieces, regardless of which switching mode I'm in. When I have the neck pup soloed I still get a hum when I touch the bridge pup poles and it's the same the other way around.
What's going on?
I have a L2000 Tribute that I've done some major wiring work to. I removed the preamp, installed separate parallel/single coil/series switches, replaced the tone with a 500k pot, and installed a push/pull volume so I could switch between stock series and OMG mode. In the last few months I've noticed that there's a staticky fuzziness when I play in OMG mode, and tonight it is happening when I play in single coil mode. I'm also getting a hum when I touch the pickup pole pieces, regardless of which switching mode I'm in. When I have the neck pup soloed I still get a hum when I touch the bridge pup poles and it's the same the other way around.
What's going on?
I had a bass with static fuzz and it turned out to be a bad control-cavity ground. Make sure the cavity is grounded to the bridge. Tribute basses are actually quite well shielded and grounded from the factory. They use ground wires which are screwed down to the shielding paint and I have seen those screws come loose so check them for tightness.
As for hum from a pickup that is not supposed to be live, could be a short-circuit, grounding issue, bad switch, not sure. I would fix the static first and go from there. Good luck.
Actually, it was the fact that the copper plate on the back of the pickups wasn't grounded. I disconnected the green wire from the plate and connected the ends together with different wire (the plate had essentially been part of the green wire) and then soldered a wire from each plate to the corresponding cavity shielding. Problem solved! Now it sounds great!
I had my G&L JB at rehearsal last night and decided to do an experiment. I had purchased a set of DR High Beam heavy gauge (50-70-90-110) strings last weekend. I installed them during the break & played it that way for the second half of rehearsal.
The bass was already set up from last weekend, with action at 9/64" at last fret, and some relief (I have a heavy hand). It already sounded great. The heavier gauge strings really added to the power of the bass. I'll need to play some more with it, but each note boomed from the bass.
This doesn't really have any impact on being G&L specific, other than that I tried it on a G&L bass.
The bass was already set up from last weekend, with action at 9/64" at last fret, and some relief (I have a heavy hand). It already sounded great. The heavier gauge strings really added to the power of the bass. I'll need to play some more with it, but each note boomed from the bass.
This doesn't really have any impact on being G&L specific, other than that I tried it on a G&L bass.
I'm getting ready to have the single coil mode done to my L2000. And I have also thought about having the push pull tone knob put in for OMG mode (like fourstringbliss just mentioned). Anyone know of any sound clips of OMG mode?
OMG mode sounds just like single-coil mode but with more bass. The extra bass is pretty transparent as well. The advantage to it is that you can back off on the bass to get the right tone. Basically, OMG mode is series but the "highs" from one coil are shunted to ground. If you choose to have outer singles then it will be outer singles OMG - same thing with inner singles. I chose inner which I like a lot more than outer.
Can i have a number? i joined the G&L community recently after buying 2 vintage G&L basses :
a late '81 L1000:
http://www.oldenburger-music-station.de/G&L L-1000 Bass.htm
and a rare Passive model El Toro:
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Both basses come from Germany: vintage G&L are barely seen in Europe.
Greetings from France,
David
a late '81 L1000:
http://www.oldenburger-music-station.de/G&L L-1000 Bass.htm
and a rare Passive model El Toro:
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Both basses come from Germany: vintage G&L are barely seen in Europe.
Greetings from France,
David
Chef
In Memoriam
Neither link worked.
This L1000?
G&L SC-3 solid body guitar
Nice.
I've had several El Toro's; I never liked passive mode.
I hope you enjoy yours!
This L1000?
G&L SC-3 solid body guitar
Nice.
I've had several El Toro's; I never liked passive mode.
I hope you enjoy yours!
oh, sorry for the wrong link!
Yes, that's my black wunkay!
ebony fretboard, and 4 pieces white wood: ash, poplar or maple body (i'm not sure and i have to unsettle the neck to verify).
She weights 4.3kgs and is in great condition for a 30 years old bass! the chromes and pickup plots are still shiny!
I really like that wide and flat neck shape. It makes it easier to play than a common PB "C" neck.
The humbucker sounds huge, and offer a wide variety of sound if you tweak the 3 pots.
Definitively an underestimated instrument that i'm proud to play!
Next summer, i'll probably refin the body in candy apple red or orange metallic, as i'm not fond of the black color on a L1000.(contrary to my black El Toro, wich looks beautiful with the matching headstock!)
As for the El Toro, i don't know the active one, but she sounds fine in passive mode whith a set of TI flats and some knobs tweaking.
Yes, that's my black wunkay!
ebony fretboard, and 4 pieces white wood: ash, poplar or maple body (i'm not sure and i have to unsettle the neck to verify).
She weights 4.3kgs and is in great condition for a 30 years old bass! the chromes and pickup plots are still shiny!
I really like that wide and flat neck shape. It makes it easier to play than a common PB "C" neck.
The humbucker sounds huge, and offer a wide variety of sound if you tweak the 3 pots.
Definitively an underestimated instrument that i'm proud to play!
Next summer, i'll probably refin the body in candy apple red or orange metallic, as i'm not fond of the black color on a L1000.(contrary to my black El Toro, wich looks beautiful with the matching headstock!)
As for the El Toro, i don't know the active one, but she sounds fine in passive mode whith a set of TI flats and some knobs tweaking.
I took my projects to my trusted luthier. He looked at my fretless L-2000 E neck that I told him had originally had a "ski-jump" problem. He took one look at the heel and said "Yep, this would do it. You always should make the necks with the bark side toward the fretboard. Yours is the other way."
I was stunned. So simple - how could G & L get it wrong, in 1981?
I was stunned. So simple - how could G & L get it wrong, in 1981?
Chef
In Memoriam
I've never heard that.
I'm no luthier, but, it would seem to me "bark side" would be softer, heartwood in the middle harder.
Thus, that would not cause a ski jump, but rather a sinkhole.
I could have that backwards.
I'm no luthier, but, it would seem to me "bark side" would be softer, heartwood in the middle harder.
Thus, that would not cause a ski jump, but rather a sinkhole.
I could have that backwards.
I would think that you'd never use the actual heartwood for woodworking... When I think of all my guitars and basses, that one neck is the only one where the grain is curved that way. All the rest are "bark side" toward the fret board.
The issue may not have anything to do with the harder/softer factor, maybe it is just with how the annual ring structure in the neck strengthens or weakens the tendency to bow one way or the other.
Chef
In Memoriam
Yes, these mods really make a G&L killer. I'm presently in the midst of putting in a push-pull OMG switch. Before that, I added the Kmod and some other hum killing tweaks. One of those is shielding the pickup cavities with copper foil and I replaced the pickup springs with foam. The springs it seems make this "boing-boing" sound when you tap on the pickups even with no strings on. With foam and shields dead quiet.
But there is a secret here. The problem you are having is that the G&L pickups don't have the pole pieces grounded. Hence if you touch them they inject hum! For a while I simply had some wires from the bridge to ground them but that was pretty hokey!
So the "real" fix is you take out the pickups and turn them over. You will notice a copper plate on the bottom. That plate is ground usually grounded by the springs but I grounded mine on foam with a strip of copper foil over the top of the foam to press against it. OK. If you look along the edges of the plate, you can just see the edges of each row of pole pieces. So what i did was sand the copper plate edge for good contact, and went to Radio Shack and got this conductive pen. Then you simply paint the bottoms of the poles and run the paint up onto the ground copper plate. Bingo. All poles now grounded and don't let the hum in. You could probably do the same thing if you have some of that copper foil with the conductive glue. Just stick a couple of strips on there.
Good luck.
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