You might already know this, but you'll have to go to the used market to get a Tribute M2500. The M2500 is currently only available as a Fullerton Option Order bass from G&L.
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I didn't know that but was planning on buying used anyways.
Always appreciate how helpful this club is!
My M-2500 Tribute was manufactured in 2018 and has a very comfortable neck (for me) and I tend to prefer smaller neck profiles. Perhaps later ones less thick necks than earlier ones? Just a thought
tl;dr I need recommendations for roundwounds for my L-2500.
Hey all, I recently got a great L-2500. The first thing I want to use it for is a 70s funk band we are putting together. I put cobalt flats on it, and it sounds great. The notes are clear with strong attacks and well-defined pitch all the way to the low B. There is also a really strong midrange which I like. And, even the lower frets on the G string have a nice fat "bass" quality to them. But I sometimes miss the sparkle of roundwounds (my home base is DR Nickel Low Riders).
Being new to this bass and pretty inexperienced with flats, I don't really know how much of what I am hearing is due to the bass and how much is the string. I would like to retain the muscular sound, strong fundamental and the fatness on all strings, and get back some of the fingers on the strings sound, and the sparkle. And then roll back the tone and sound basically like flats (I know, not really but mostly).
I like to play many kinds of music, so what strings might be good for what I need? I was just going to try a set of Low Riders, what are other strings you guys like?
Hey all, I recently got a great L-2500. The first thing I want to use it for is a 70s funk band we are putting together. I put cobalt flats on it, and it sounds great. The notes are clear with strong attacks and well-defined pitch all the way to the low B. There is also a really strong midrange which I like. And, even the lower frets on the G string have a nice fat "bass" quality to them. But I sometimes miss the sparkle of roundwounds (my home base is DR Nickel Low Riders).
Being new to this bass and pretty inexperienced with flats, I don't really know how much of what I am hearing is due to the bass and how much is the string. I would like to retain the muscular sound, strong fundamental and the fatness on all strings, and get back some of the fingers on the strings sound, and the sparkle. And then roll back the tone and sound basically like flats (I know, not really but mostly).
I like to play many kinds of music, so what strings might be good for what I need? I was just going to try a set of Low Riders, what are other strings you guys like?
You could try GHS pressurewounds.
To me they're they best of both worlds.
I agree. I put GHS Pressurewounds on my SB-2. At first, I didn't like them because they were extremely bright, and I usually like a brighter bass sound with a solid, full bottom end. I was told to be patient, they would break in. And they did. After a few weeks, they sounded great.
I think they sound great.
But to be honest I use them only on fretlessesseseseses so rounds don't chew up the fingerboards. I know, I know, wear happens, but to me the lack of brightness is worth not worrying about when and whether I have to get my board sanded or whatever.
I've found that there are still a few "new old stock" M2500s and M2000s floating around. A vendor on Reverb told me that, when G&L discontinued the Tribute M-series basses, they had kind of a "fire sale" on them. He bought a gross of them and was still selling them off.
Funny, I liked 'em best right out of the box - different strokes!
Might be the difference in basses as well, but whatever the case, they are awesome strings. I expected them to be a little bright, which I wanted. They're wound with Alloy 52 (which is produced by aliens in Area 51). I have a roundwound coated set of strings on my highly modded Tribute LB-100 that are wound with Alloy 52, and they're extremely bright. (Rotosound Nexus) They have never mellowed out, but that bass needed something bright. On that particular bass, they're the best sounding strings I've ever tried, and IMO, it's the best sounding bass I've ever heard. (It has an MFD split-coil in it with a Seymour Duncan 2-band active EQ. Great combination!) However, the finger noise on those Nexus strings is worse than even the finger noise on stainless steel roundwounds. Next time around, I believe it'll be Pressurewounds on that bass.
Not sure, but I'll check it out stock first before making a major change.
My USA one was fine, I just always found it a little too chunky, but still playable. It was a 2012 I believe
I found no neck thickness issues with my 2013 USA M-2500. It had a wonderful neck (my first 5 string) and the action (PLEK and QS neck) was very low right out of the box, i.e. finely tuned at The Bass Place in Peoria, AZ, before being shipped to France, the best I've had in the last 13 years and over 15 basses.
Hmm, I've been toying with trying the Pressurewounds on my SB-2. You guys are helping push me in that direction.
Do pressure wounds feel like they have low tension? I've only tried them on my Ric but most strings feel a little floppier on the Ric. You wouldn't think 1/4" makes a huge difference but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Compared to the high tension flats i had on an ABG yeah, they feel loose. Big picture though, the feel about like a mellower version of Dadarrio XLs.
I have TI flats on my SB2-T. I find the tone to be really good.
I've been going down the flats rabbit hole for the last 8 or 9 years (I have TIs on my L-2000) and I was thinking of the PWs as a way to pull myself out of that, since I've been putting flats on everything…
I put TI Jazz Flats on all my MFD equipped basses. Briefly tried the Jazz Rounds and liked them but the tension is insanely low on them. Eventually switched to DR Pure Blues for my go to rounds. At this point I only run rounds on my JB5.
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