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G&L Club Part 7

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New bass delivered! CLF L-2500 Series 750 in Metallic Tangerine. Finish is beautiful—especially the gloss on the maple neck and fingerboard. Neck feels *hilariously* wide to me—and it takes more discipline to keep everything except what you're playing appropriately muted.:help: Very comfortable at 9.4 lbs and balances nicely. The bridge is a big hunk of metal on this baby. This is my first experience with the hefty CLF knobs and they seem closer to the switches than I'd really prefer. I've put D'Addario NYXLs on the bass and it has a huge, punchy tone. B-string is OK but not at present brilliant with these strings—this typically improves over a few days in my experience. It may be me but the pickups seem very hot on this bass compared to my previous L-series instruments.:wideyed: I've had to back the pickups much further off the strings. Makes me wonder if they added a few wraps given that the pole pieces are further apart. As well, the treble and bass cut controls seem a bit different in terms of their actions. Control cavity has precisely zero shielding—it's all a lovely metallic tangerine in there. (Ah, such is the G&L shielding experience!:cautious:) Anyway, I like it a good deal and am looking forward to getting to know it better.:D [Thanks as always to Greg @RocketMusic.:thumbsup:]
 
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jmlee said:
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New bass delivered! CLF L-2500 Series 750 in Metallic Tangerine. Finish is beautiful—especially the gloss on the maple neck and fingerboard. Neck feels *hilariously* wide to me—and it takes more discipline to keep everything except what you're playing appropriately muted.:help: Very comfortable at 9.4 lbs and balances nicely. The bridge is a big hunk of metal on this baby. This is my first experience with the hefty CLF knobs and they seem closer to the switches than I'd really prefer. I've put D'Addario NYXLs on the bass and it has a huge, punchy tone. B-string is OK but not at present brilliant with these strings—this typically improves over a few days in my experience. It may be me but the pickups seem very hot on this bass compared to my previous L-series instruments.:wideyed: I've had to back the pickups much further off the strings. Makes me wonder if they added a few wraps given that the pole pieces are further apart. As well, the treble and bass cut controls seem a bit different in terms of their actions. Control cavity has precisely zero shielding—it's all a lovely metallic tangerine in there. (Ah, such is the G&L shielding experience!:cautious:) Anyway, I like it a good deal and am looking forward to getting to know it better.:D [Thanks as always to Greg @RocketMusic.:thumbsup:]
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Gorgious, congrats!
 
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jmlee said:
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New bass delivered! CLF L-2500 Series 750 in Metallic Tangerine. Finish is beautiful—especially the gloss on the maple neck and fingerboard. Neck feels *hilariously* wide to me—and it takes more discipline to keep everything except what you're playing appropriately muted.:help: Very comfortable at 9.4 lbs and balances nicely. The bridge is a big hunk of metal on this baby. This is my first experience with the hefty CLF knobs and they seem closer to the switches than I'd really prefer. I've put D'Addario NYXLs on the bass and it has a huge, punchy tone. B-string is OK but not at present brilliant with these strings—this typically improves over a few days in my experience. It may be me but the pickups seem very hot on this bass compared to my previous L-series instruments.:wideyed: I've had to back the pickups much further off the strings. Makes me wonder if they added a few wraps given that the pole pieces are further apart. As well, the treble and bass cut controls seem a bit different in terms of their actions. Control cavity has precisely zero shielding—it's all a lovely metallic tangerine in there. (Ah, such is the G&L shielding experience!:cautious:) Anyway, I like it a good deal and am looking forward to getting to know it better.:D [Thanks as always to Greg @RocketMusic.:thumbsup:]
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ONE OF US! ONE OF US! The few, the proud, the chunguseses.
 
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dedpool1052 said:
For me, absolutely.
It gets the P-bass tone I hear in my head, that I haven't been able to achieve with an actual P-bass.
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It's funny but I was just thinking that tonight. There is something that's chewy and additive about the sound of MFD pickups. And an MFD in the P-pickup spot is just so much more interesting than a P-pickup in that spot. Actually that's true of the MFD in the neck position on an L-2X00.

I just changed the strings on my new CLF L-2500 Series 750 (see above) to a set of Ernie Ball Group III flats that I had in the box and *holy crapoly* it sounds good! I was revelling in the sound of the neck pickup:drool: when I read @dedpool1052's posting above. So, so right... [BTW, the NYXL strings—nice as they are—were just plumb wrong for this bass.:rollno:]
 
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P Cheen said:
Since the Andromeda finish is essentially black, do you guys think a dark tort guard would look killer with it?
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Black with tort guard is an old Fender original. My '62P was originally black/tort. With that fantastic andromeda finish I'd want a little burgandy in the tort or better yet with no guard but that would make things too holey, lol.
 
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LowEndLobster said:
Next week will be G&L week on the channel. I have my full in depth review of the L-2500 CLF Series 750 coming this Sunday along with a revisit of my L-1000 CLF 4 string sometime in the middle of the week. MFD is the VIP.
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As you can imagine, I'm very interested to see what you have to say. Putting flats on mine has been transformative.
 
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LowEndLobster said:
Next week will be G&L week on the channel. I have my full in depth review of the L-2500 CLF Series 750 coming this Sunday along with a revisit of my L-1000 CLF 4 string sometime in the middle of the week. MFD is the VIP.
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I'd love it if you could review a US-made LB-100. The Tribute you reviewed was… well, a Tribute.
 
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I have Tis on my Big Chonks. I kinda splurged on this bass.
As I said before, after I took out the second mortgage for the TIs.

I have Labella LTFs on most of the rest of the collection, which are my preferred flat. I've tried almost all of them out there, and that's where I've landed. Tis when I feel rich, LTFs when I feel practical.
 
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