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G&L Club Part 7

#27,601
Kubicki Fan said:
I'd get a fretless neck for that...
That is a lovely bass.
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Thanks!
I have/had quite a few G&L basses and this bass was exactly what I've expected if not even better. I know many had different stories with their orders but I guess mine took so long they've got plenty of time to make sure it was all good. Only thing I didn't like was the JB knobs but today I've replaced them with the CLF Research knobs. Much better now.
 
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bullitproof said:
Thanks!
I have/had quite a few G&L basses and this bass was exactly what I've expected if not even better. I know many had different stories with their orders but I guess mine took so long they've got plenty of time to make sure it was all good. Only thing I didn't like was the JB knobs but today I've replaced them with the CLF Research knobs. Much better now.
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Enjoy that beauty for a long long time!
 
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Ricky Rioli said:
The difference being that 2014's $1200 was specced out to order, not an off the peg bass. Now, a L-1000 with rosewood fb, 1½" nut and ash body is $3735
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Same with the vintage side of things. I had a 1980 cherry red hog L1000 with flame maple neck in excellent condition that I sold in 2014 for less than $700. There was little interest in them for the longest time. All the old G&Ls I bought at that time were in the same price range.

I feel like I got lucky with this recent purchase. Late 80s SB-1 in great shape for $1100. People still don't want these I spose.

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Ricky Rioli said:
When I discovered G&L, the SB-1 seemed to be the obvious choice. Then one day I bothered to look at the proportions on the G&L Archive page of Greg's previous website:

LB-100: 62
SB-2: 25
SB-1: 4

Oh.
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That's just a lot of people missing out on the SB-1 :)

Been busy trying really hard to resist the urge to put the MFD split-coil into my Sandberg.
Though, given recent G&L shenanigans, perhaps I should order a few pick-ups before they decide you can't get them other than in an instrument.
 
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gunai said:
That's just a lot of people missing out on the SB-1 :)

Been busy trying really hard to resist the urge to put the MFD split-coil into my Sandberg.
Though, given recent G&L shenanigans, perhaps I should order a few pick-ups before they decide you can't get them other than in an instrument.
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Seeing Red Fang's bassist, Aaron Beam, play one of these live really opened my eyes to how aggressive they really are. I'm still surprised more metal-oriented players don't use them.
 
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Kawai2g4b said:
Seeing Red Fang's bassist, Aaron Beam, play one of these live really opened my eyes to how aggressive they really are. I'm still surprised more metal-oriented players don't use them.
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Unless he put the MFD back in, it's just a good ol' split-coil in it.
That being said:
1. The MFD split-coil is indeed great for aggressive music.
2. Red Fang are great, despite their MFD deficiency ^^;
 
#27,609
metron said:
Same with the vintage side of things. I had a 1980 cherry red hog L1000 with flame maple neck in excellent condition that I sold in 2014 for less than $700. There was little interest in them for the longest time. All the old G&Ls I bought at that time were in the same price range.

I feel like I got lucky with this recent purchase. Late 80s SB-1 in great shape for $1100. People still don't want these I spose.

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I would love to find an older SB-1 in great shape like that.
 
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I had a question through pm on whether my 80s SB-1 is redundant to my 90s SB-2. I thought I would share my response here. Im ignoring the tone control and single coil differences.

The short story is they are pretty different. I've had 4 different "second gen" SB-2s from the mid 90s to new. They were all similar in sound but the neck profiles varied quite a bit. My current SB-2 is from the late 90s.

This is my first SB-1 and its an 88 or 89. There are the obvious differences in the necks with the 1.75ish nut, thin front to back, 7.25 radius, gloss, jumbo frets. What I was surprised to find is the split coil sounds a bit different. I hate the vintage term cliche but it applies. It's a little lower output and less aggressive than the SB2 split solo. Has more of that honky 70s p bass thing. Just a bit. They are clearly the same pickup design but my guess it comes down to less windings on the SB1 as its dc resistance is lower.

In conclusion, it seems like G&L changed the mfd split coil recipe a little from the 80s to the 90s pickups.
 
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MFDs are indeed worth using in other basses. Not only are they incredible bass pickups, but they often cost less than buying similar pickups from other companies. I conducted an experiment on a Seymour Duncan 2-band preamp that I had in my Tribute LB-100. (No affiliation with SD.) I wanted to see if an MFD would overdrive the front end of that preamp, so I pulled the split coil out of my SB-2 and put it into the LB-100. It dropped in perfectly, and it's never come out. It sounds beyond incredible and doesn't overdrive the preamp. I bought a new MFD split-coil to put back into my SB-2. That split-coil MFD humbucker should drop into any P-bass or P-J style bass.
 
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