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G&L Club Part 7

#32,641
TonyP- said:
Who are M fans?

I'm totally digging running my M with mids cut all the way, adding a touch of highs and the lows flat.

I love that tone in a very tight environment, if it's a real busy mix I just slowly dial the mids from the cut point.
MFDs have more than enough mids for me.
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I'm going to try running my M2000 like that with the mids cut. I love my M2000, but I like my L2K, SB-1 and JB also!
Beautiful new L2500 by the way.
 
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svtbass said:
Truer G&L words have never been spoken. Kudos Tony, most musicians have little understanding of "frequency assigning" in recording and fewer still apply the concept live. Lower/mid midrange is a thick, swampy battlefield. Frequency assigning is the greatest tool my recording engineer uncle taught me long ago after he studied recording with a couple of Detroit's finest. Dayum, he owned a sweet Scully recorder. While I love all my G&L fretted/fretless pairs, my M is the only G&L that can accomplish it onboard. An M-2000 fretless to mate with my fretted is the only G&L I covet. Likely buy a 6-bolt unlined fretless from any model when one comes up and swap the neck. That bass, fretless, with it's mid boost/cut control, would seriously kill. May prove to be the best G&L fretless of all.
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My M2500 fretless is simply amazing.
 
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#32,643
svtbass said:
Truer G&L words have never been spoken. Kudos Tony, most musicians have little understanding of "frequency assigning" in recording and fewer still apply the concept live. Lower/mid midrange is a thick, swampy battlefield. Frequency assigning is the greatest tool my recording engineer uncle taught me long ago after he studied recording with a couple of Detroit's finest. Dayum, he owned a sweet Scully recorder. While I love all my G&L fretted/fretless pairs, my M is the only G&L that can accomplish it onboard. An M-2000 fretless to mate with my fretted is the only G&L I covet. Likely buy a 6-bolt unlined fretless from any model when one comes up and swap the neck. That bass, fretless, with it's mid boost/cut control, would seriously kill. May prove to be the best G&L fretless of all.
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I haven't played one, but suspect that the M would be a most excellent fretless (at some point, I want to order a 5-string version).
 
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FearNoEvil65 said:
I'm going to try running my M2000 like that with the mids cut. I love my M2000, but I like my L2K, SB-1 and JB also!
Beautiful new L2500 by the way.
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Thanks FNE65,
I should have it next week.
I really wanted something to go passive and to have some kind of single coil sound.
 
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ASAT p***...


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Picture saved on my PC some years ago...
 
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Hawk620 said:
One right here. I've also owned an L2500 and a Kiloton. I've sold both. My M2000 remains as my favorite and most versatile bass. I also know exactly what you're talking about via cutting the mids. It's a very unique tonality peculiar to that bass and I like it too. Thanks for sharing that Tony.
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My numero uno now is a Kiloton V, and yep, it's the only bass I own (the rest are all passive P's J's and the like) where I have to cut mids in most settings. I use my Xotic RC and boosting treble and bass fairly aggressively gets the desired result. Then it is such a killer tone, sits in the mix like a P and a 2-band 'Ray had a baby. Otherwise it's sooo mid-punchy it can be overwhelming and that MFD "honk" as I call it is too pronounced. I wish I still had my old Sadowsky outboard pre 'cause I bet it would be a great pairing.
 
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My L2K kicks some serious booty in drop C.
Here's a short clip I recorded over my guitarist's riff. Raw stuff and just work in progress, but I love the aggressive punchy tone I get with L2K.
I used HPF/LPF (80Hz/5 kHz) into Sansamp BDDI v2. Both pups on, series mode, passive. Bass control at around 20%, treble at 90%, volume full on.

 
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svtbass said:
That top is seriously sicker than the top on my former B5fl and I'll take the electronics in the M over it all day long. Course, if cash were no object....

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Thanks, that one was a 19 month wait due to being super picky about the wood choices during covid. The neck is ridiculous as well.

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Worth it. :D
 
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Hi Folks!
Glad theres a G&L club here!
My name is Al and im from Upstate NY near Cayuga Lake.
Getting ready to try to restore an old project thats long overdue. A Fullerton made 1984 L-2000 that seen some hard days.
Body isnt bad and the electronics are original, complete and work well. The neck, however, had a bow in it when i bought it.
Life....Kids, jobs, cancer, getting old all have gotten in the way until now. Trying to get things cleaned up and ready to ship to warpednecks.com.

When i removed the neck i found the stamped body and neck completion date stamps. I also found written in pen "DEDOLEX 11-28-84.
Would this be the actual completion date for my Bass? Does anyone know who or what Dedolex is?
 
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#32,659
TonyP- said:
Who are M fans?

I'm totally digging running my M with mids cut all the way, adding a touch of highs and the lows flat.

I love that tone in a very tight environment, if it's a real busy mix I just slowly dial the mids from the cut point.
MFDs have more than enough mids for me.
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Huge M fan here! I think my 2013 M-2500 is the best bass I've ever owned, though I play my Sandberg TT-5 Superlight more frequently because, well, it's very light, and I walk to most rehearsals and gigs. Plus, I love J basses too. (But the Sandberg would probably take a back seat to a JB5 MFD, if such a beast existed--and of course we all know it needs to happen.)

I'm always playing in rock bands, and I cut the treble significantly to preserve just a hint of zing, and I cut the bass slightly (about 20%?). To my ears, that yields a balanced, clear, heavy tone, and my bandmates always like it. I've occasionally adjusted the mids too, but it's rare. The mid control could definitely help cut through a dense mix if necessary. I've occasionally boosted bass for select tracks, but that's also rare.

I'm running both pickups full, or slightly favoring the neck pickup. For the rare track that requires a bridge pickup tone, I'll pan that way.
 
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