Thanks! No need for you to be quiet. I read your modification list and suspect that I'd prefer your modified basses to a stock L-2500 by a long shot.
Excellent work all the way around!
Are any sound clips available?
Thanks BillyB. It's fun to talk about G&L basses. In the tradition of internet speak: Your Mileage May Vary. I took my time mining for mod ideas and saving up the money to have them done flawlessly. And many thanks go to the folks who posted various mods on various G&L on basses by leo dot com. It's important to share what we learn.
Available sound clips of my modded L-1505's ? Recording's a slippery slope for me and I'm not good at it. I just don't want to try it yet.
As I reasoned my way to the finished mods it turned out that 3 of the mods got me the tone:
1) the Stellartone Tone Styler tone knob-with notched rotation
2) added MFD pickup
3) bridge mod
What's the tone? Heavy, warm, round, punchy and clean.
The bridge mod is best explained in that link above.
My added neck MFD pickup is far enough away from the bridge pickup that they each contribute distinct tones and I always use them in a 50/50 blend - the knob's center is detented. Rotating the blend knob full on for either pickup is also fine too.
I set out to avoid an on-board battery from the very beginning with these L-1505's and I wanted to use the master volume at full on all the time. Oh, I forgot one mod in the above list: a treble bleed cap - I think that's what it can be called. Stellartone calls it a "Volume Kit" here:
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So with this volume kit I don't have to set the master volume on full but I do most of the time.
When it comes to pickups MFD's are so very good (thanks to Leo) that they sound great without the peripheral G&L electronics. I've had both sets from my L-1505's of complete electronics harnesses for sale in CL for quite some time but, no bites. I had the tech simply lift out the entire assembly and keep it all complete. Leo's designs need no introductions it's just that those stock electronics rubbed me the wrong way. As Austin Powers said in one of those spy movies, "... that's not my bag baby ..." In my case the MFD's work beautifully without a battery or batteries. The 3 position toggles worked out very well too. Turns out I set them to humbucking in series pretty much all of the time. In addition to my heavy opinions above I'll add that the MFD's breath better with all of their available tone - for lack of more technical explanation - with these mods. Thumbs up to all of those who choose G&L basses at all. We seem to be a bit of a minority of sorts on TB. Yet our thread gets a lot of views.
But whichever configuration we prefer, let's be glad that G&L is still around as a company.
