That's a great price. I paid over $200 for the pair of DiMarzio's in my MJ-4. If I may ask, where did you get them?
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True that. USA JB-2s are only available on the used market. Maybe in Custom Shop??? Tribute JB-2s are available at your local or online G&L dealer. I would guess that the pickups in the USA versions are better. Gotta be the same as in the regular USA JB. The Cort Alnicos in G&L basses are supposed to be constructed to G&L specs, but when is the last time they were checked?...10 years ago...15...20...never? As I said, that's a guess as my USA G&Ls both have MFDs. Does anybody have a USA G&L and a Tribute G&L with similar-style Alnico pickups? If so, what are your observations of the two?
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They are wound the same, as stated. Measured a small harem of them quite a while back. The only difference to original SB2 single coils is the neck pickup is shorter so putting a current one in the neck position would make the poles off.
Didn't watch the game, I Sunday-swapped. '91 3-bolt SB1 into the 6-bolt LB100 body from G&L's Garage Sale. Neck length diff is 3/64" shorter, first 2 mounting holes are identical and fretless will intonate fine. Currently a mock up, no string tension as I didn't drill any more holes. I'll likely source components (ya never know) but hardware will be black. We need black-wrinkle bridges and pickguards, come on G&L.
That's a much better use of your time than... (I'll just leave it at that).
Well darn! The Tribby Kiloton fretless has been pushed back to the end of the month. However, I've had training in waiting and having arrival dates pushed back. It doesn't feel easier, though. I think I'm going to grab a chorus pedal to tide me over. Ack! GAS!
TB and we encourage GAS so I have a recommendation....
Analogman Mini Chorus with Mix knob and Depth switch. I also use it with a Fretless Kiloton (when I want chorus which is admittedly not all that often).
I have three LB-100s and until tonight they were all set up with the stock .022uF tone capacitors. I've always thought the LB-100 sounds slightly different from a Fender Precision in a way I don't prefer. I like to tweak and fiddle with things. So I ordered some orange drops and put a .047 in one bass and a .100 in the other. They both metered out right around their nominal values which was cool. I didn't touch the CS for obvious reasons and I wanted to keep one bass at stock value anyway.
The .047 gives me those exact P bass toanz I'm after, it's my favorite of the three values I've played with. Rolled off the .100 is ultra dark, wooly, and compressed, which I also enjoy. Anyway, variety being the spice and all...it was a fun experiment and each LB now has its own distinct personality beyond looks.
Should have taken more pics but once I get a whiff of that rosin-core it's game on.
The .047 gives me those exact P bass toanz I'm after, it's my favorite of the three values I've played with. Rolled off the .100 is ultra dark, wooly, and compressed, which I also enjoy. Anyway, variety being the spice and all...it was a fun experiment and each LB now has its own distinct personality beyond looks.
Should have taken more pics but once I get a whiff of that rosin-core it's game on.
Recently did the three tone cap mod to my Tribute L2500 (change active passive switch to a switch that switches across 3 caps that are tied to treble cut knob). The variety of tone offered by the cap change is really nice.
When I first got my LB-100, I put in a Dimarzio Model P, which the stock cap suited well. When I swapped the Dimarzio for a stock-wind Fralin, I also swapped the cap for a 47, and am very glad I did.
In SB-1 news, it's now 20 weeks since mine arrived back at the factory, and 24 weeks since I last played it. I'm missing the MFD so so bad......
In SB-1 news, it's now 20 weeks since mine arrived back at the factory, and 24 weeks since I last played it. I'm missing the MFD so so bad......
Refresh our memories...what were they doing to it? Wasn't it a new neck?? Twenty weeks is a really long time for a neck. Back in October 2020, I sent my '07 SB-2 in for a new neck and got it back three months later. You're at about five months and still no sign of it. Of course, I'm in southeast Arizona and you're in the UK. Shipping time is bound to be considerably greater, so it might be on its way. When they shipped mine back, I got no shipping notice at all. It just showed up one day like a magic trick...poof, here's your bass. Best of luck for a speedy reunion.
How hard would it be to ditch the pickup selector on my l-2500 and replace it with a blend? I find that I have no use for a solo bridge pickup and on other dual pickup basses I always do the bridge at about 75% with neck full on.
Yes, not only was truss rod was maxed out (which I had been trying to be ok with) but then neck was slowly bending, raising the action too high for me. The difference in string height was actually enough to make an audible difference to the tone, as the strings were taken higher over the pickup. And that was with a set of strings whose total tension was lower than a standard 45-105 set of Rotosound or GHS rounds
I've got heavier strings on my LB-100 (45-105 Chromes) and the action on that is an absolute dream, no problem with that truss rod.
I like to pretend that they've already made the new neck and are letting it sit there for a while, to be sure this one works.
I've forgotten the exact figures, but roughly speaking sending the bass from UK to US and back again will be costing me $500. I also spent $125 on a new hard case, as I didn't trust the G&L case to take another 10,000 miles without it showing.
That would be the ultimate in blend control. I don't even like dual-volume basses, but that way is best for blending. On one of my basses I even wired the two pickups to concentric pots, then from there to a master volume. It was the best of both worlds--the ultimate blend adjustment with a single control for overall volume.
