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G&L Club Part 7

#30,062
ahadl2500 said:
Same... other than I also liked Peavey Holoflake finishes on the G Bass and GV. Andromeda is pretty much exactly Peavey Holoflake Black.
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I never looked closely at that Peavey, but, for example, the Modulus Flea flakes looked garish to me....perhaps OK if they were played by a bassist wearing a space suit in a Bowie tribute doing the Spiders From Mars tour ;)
 
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Ricky Rioli said:
My SB-1 is Pharaoh Gold, and I don't think I would call it flake.... mind you, I haven't seen it for 150 days, so my memory might be defective..... :dead:
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That's metallic, not flake. I love all of G&L's metallic finishes, which are more subtle. For comparison, here's the eye-poppin' gold flake LB100 body from yesterday's Garage Sale. This would kill with a black guard.

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So I have been gigging my Kilos quite a bit.

I usually do so through my Fendre Rumble setup. They sound good. Very good.

But I've also been forced into some backline situations that included other amps, including Markbass. And I can now understand why some bassists refer to Kilos as overly nasally and snarly. I had that experience a few times. Sometimes I was able to EQ that out. Other times, not so much. With the Markbass, I didn't find a way.

That's really different from my L2000s and my lone M2000. I can always make those work, no matter what I plug in. Maybe it's just that I am more use to the them.

Certainly putting the Kilos in series helped quite a bit. The parallel setting was also salvageable sometimes. But the single coil setting was really not workable in some situations that needed that pillowy type of tone, depending on the amp.

I'm going to fool with them some more. Like I said, it could be me. I may simply need more time to really get a hold of how to treat these guys.

I guess it's normal too that the Ls and M are more adaptable. They really have more built in options.
 
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jfh2424 said:
So I have been gigging my Kilos quite a bit.

I usually do so through my Fendre Rumble setup. They sound good. Very good.

But I've also been forced into some backline situations that included other amps, including Markbass. And I can now understand why some bassists refer to Kilos as overly nasally and snarly. I had that experience a few times. Sometimes I was able to EQ that out. Other times, not so much. With the Markbass, I didn't find a way.

That's really different from my L2000s and my lone M2000. I can always make those work, no matter what I plug in. Maybe it's just that I am more use to the them.

Certainly putting the Kilos in series helped quite a bit. The parallel setting was also salvageable sometimes. But the single coil setting was really not workable in some situations that needed that pillowy type of tone, depending on the amp.

I'm going to fool with them some more. Like I said, it could be me. I may simply need more time to really get a hold of how to treat these guys.

I guess it's normal too that the Ls and M are more adaptable. They really have more built in options.
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This is exactly why I moved on from my L-1500, which has the same pickup in the same location as the Kiloton's. It sounded amazing through some rigs, but was too thin/nasal through others unless I used an Aphex Bass Xciter pedal. It wasn't plug-and-play, at least for me. I probably could have done more with EQ, but after I got my SB-2, which offered all the MFD punch with plug-and-play P-bass goodness, why bother?

Interestingly, when I first played an L-1500, I ran it through a Fender 2x10 combo at the shop. It sounded fantastic through that amp, which inspired me to order one.
 
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jfh2424 said:
So I have been gigging my Kilos quite a bit.

I usually do so through my Fendre Rumble setup. They sound good. Very good.

But I've also been forced into some backline situations that included other amps, including Markbass. And I can now understand why some bassists refer to Kilos as overly nasally and snarly. I had that experience a few times. Sometimes I was able to EQ that out. Other times, not so much. With the Markbass, I didn't find a way.

That's really different from my L2000s and my lone M2000. I can always make those work, no matter what I plug in. Maybe it's just that I am more use to the them.

Certainly putting the Kilos in series helped quite a bit. The parallel setting was also salvageable sometimes. But the single coil setting was really not workable in some situations that needed that pillowy type of tone, depending on the amp.

I'm going to fool with them some more. Like I said, it could be me. I may simply need more time to really get a hold of how to treat these guys.

I guess it's normal too that the Ls and M are more adaptable. They really have more built in options.
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Sounds like you need a Fender preamp box of sorts, to carry the tone you love with you.
 
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I play my basses--all of them including my two Kilotons--directly through our sound system and through an Ampeg SCR-DI. It's very simple, with volume, 3-band EQ, treble boost button, bass boost button, and distortion module (which I personally never use). It has a 1/4" thru, a 1/4" out, and an XLR out. My basses have MFD pickups, Alnico pickups, and ceramic pickups. Some are active, some are passive, including my SB-2 which is wired to a single volume pot that's also a push/pull for series/parallel and my NS Design WAV4, a now-passive bass which has a Lace Alumibar pickup and also has no tone control. Once I got the sound set up for one of my basses, it's been satisfactory for all of them. I've never had to touch any of the EQs, neither on my Ampeg SCR-DI nor, according to our sound man, on the sound system (which is pretty much set up flat on the bass channel). So maybe try one of these preamps or another one inline with your amps, even if you're using someone else's for a gig. I have no affiliation with any aforementioned company.
 
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#30,073
FearNoEvil65 said:
My #1, BTO L2K. Andromeda Black Gloss, matching headstock, empress wood body 7.4lbs, ebony board with pearl block inlays, graphtech nut and SCM.
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That's awesome, great BTO choices. Your camera captured the sparklies really well. I like how some of the stars are larger than others. G&L is giving EBMM's Starry Skies finishes a run for their money. Well done! :thumbsup:

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jfh2424 said:
So I have been gigging my Kilos quite a bit…
… And I can now understand why some bassists refer to Kilos as overly nasally and snarly.
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Not mine!
Serial position, OEM D'Addario roundwounds, maple fingerboard, and foam!
And I have 3 different MarkBass amps (121 combo, 801 combo, Little Mark III).
Literally my 2 cts about innovation :laugh:

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