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G&L Club Part 7

#33,862
N-Bass84 said:
Hallo, das ist mein wunderschöner Fullerton L2K aus dem Jahr 2012.

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Now to my question. I love my bass, but I'm always thinking of installing the typical controlplate to this bass. Im from GER and it's extremely difficult to find G&L parts around. Do you know a shop that maybe selbst hardware like this sometimes?
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Beautiful bass, and with my favorite neck specs! Just my opinion, but a chrome plate would greatly cheapen the look.
 
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-Boscoe- said:
I've started working on an all-in-one PCB solution for L-2000/L-2500/ASAT/etc electronics.
Ideally I'd be able to make one PCB that would work with the Tributes, Fullerton Deluxe, and CLF batwing models. I have a Tribute L2K and a CLF batwing is on its way to me. Hopefully they're the same dimensions, if not I'll probably prioritize making a CLF version first.

Anyhow, here would be the features:
* Incorporates the Boscoe Music GLL2K preamp I put out late last year with LM4250 opamp
* Normal volume / treble / bass potentiometers
* Normal neck/both/bridge pickup selector
* Normal passive/active/bright preamp selector
* K-mod serial/split/parallel coil selector
* Screw terminals for wire attachments

A question I have for the community is this - what kind of split coil is preferred for the K-mod? Inner coils like a P-bass or outer coils like a Jazz? If I can figure it out I may incorporate an internal switch so that folks can have their choice, but most likely it'll be hardwired one or the other.

Any other features wanted? I know some folks have wanted a pre-Paul Gagon 80s style L2K preamp but unless someone can provide a schematic or send me one to trace that's probably not going to happen.

Note that I probably will not have the room to use a push-pull and I will not incorporate any additional external switches as I want it to be a drop-in electronics set - just provide pickups.
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I have done a bunch of modding to my L2500 over the last 20 years, the first of which was adding a 4th switch for Inner/Outer coils.
Background is that my early L2500 came with Parallel and Series Split-Coil wiring (OMG) only. No regular ol' Series. I believe this was how the late 80's- mid-90's L2000's also came wired. It wasn't until about '98 that OMG was removed in lieu of regular ol' Series.
Anyway, my bass also came wired with the OMG coils in a non-hum-cancelling configuration. It was both bridge-side coils or both neck-side coils (I don't remember which), so when in use, there was double the single coil hum. Needless to say, I never used it.

About 20 years ago, I read on the G&L forums that this was an error, and the fix was a simple one-solder joint away. So I grabbed one of the pickup wires and made the repair. Turned out that whichever configuration they began with and whichever pickup wire I moved, I modded the bass to Inner Coils in OMG mode.
This definitely made the bass a "slap machine" and gave it an almost Warwick Thumb-like tone.
About 10 years later, I added the 4th toggle to switch between inner and outer coils. The outer coils sound more like a traditional 70's JB, even though the neck pickup is slightly closer to the bridge than a JB neck pickup (bridge coil of the bridge pickup is in the 70's position).

Then, a couple years later, I actually added a push-pull volume pot that bypasses the OMG caps and gave me regular ol' Series wiring.
And a couple years after that, I fully removed the OMG caps because I prefer the clarity and nuance of regular single coils.

So to answer your question, I actually prefer outer (JB) coils over the inners, but the inners do sound pretty sick when slapped.
Perhaps a push-pull volume for that wouldn't be such a bad idea. If I hadn't drilled a 4th hole for the toggle, I probably would have settled for that rather than Series. I prefer Parallel and SC modes altogether.
And yes, with all the extra wiring I added, my L2500's cavity is a rat's nest for sure…
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Big Louzer said:
Anyway, my bass also came wired with the OMG coils in a non-hum-cancelling configuration. It was both bridge-side coils or both neck-side coils (I don't remember which), so when in use, there was double the single coil hum. Needless to say, I never used it.

About 20 years ago, I read on the G&L forums that this was an error, and the fix was a simple one-solder joint away. So I grabbed one of the pickup wires and made the repair. Turned out that whichever configuration they began with and whichever pickup wire I moved, I modded the bass to Inner Coils in OMG mode.
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Not an error. Just a poor design choice. They were using the bridge-side coil on both pickups for the full range coil.

I have my '89 L-2000 so that the inner coils are the full-range coils on the OMG mode.

I also had a non-OMG L-2000, which is the one that I tried all sorts of pickup wiring configs on. Here's a fun one: neck parallel + bridge OMG… I always thought it would be cool to use the M-2000 body with L-2000 guts and use the holes for the preamp knobs to put in some rotary switches for various pickup wiring combinations… but that was a rabbit hole I couldn't afford.
 
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So Anyway, wasn't looking for another bass... OK, who's kidding who.... but this JB2 Tribute came up locally for what I thought was a fair price.
I've owned a number of American and Tribute G&L's and found them all to be very good basses.
Set up was perfect for me and the intonation was correct. Nice jazz growl.
I'll use it at a gig I've got with a piano crooner in a couple of weeks.

But I have to admit my buying mechanism is a little off. I usually use a 1/2 of retail for a used bass as a guide, as that's what I use to sell something.
But now that there are no new G&L's, I'm a little lost. :rolleyes:

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I think the days of used prices being half of new prices are largely over. You might stumble across such a deal, but mostly they're higher than that. That's a great looking JB-2. I've had a pair of those Tribbies through the years. I now have a couple friends who are rocking them. Note that if you ever decide to change pickups, you cannot use a regular set of jass bass pickups. The size dictates you have to buy two neck pickups. (This is true only of Tribute JB-2 models. The USA JB-2s use a regular-sized jazz bass set). I'm not sure what two neck pickups does to hum cancellation when they're both turned up all the way. Have fun!
 
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jglunt said:
I think the days of used prices being half of new prices are largely over. You might stumble across such a deal, but mostly they're higher than that. That's a great looking JB-2. I've had a pair of those Tribbies through the years. I now have a couple friends who are rocking them. Note that if you ever decide to change pickups, you cannot use a regular set of jass bass pickups. The size dictates you have to buy two neck pickups. (This is true only of Tribute JB-2 models. The USA JB-2s use a regular-sized jazz bass set). I'm not sure what two neck pickups does to hum cancellation when they're both turned up all the way. Have fun!
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Thanks for the information! The previous owner took the bridge volume off and replaced it with a 3-way toggle switch. He included the original part, but I doubt if I change it back. Changing out parts is too much like work... and I'm pretty lazy. Didn't notice any hum. The Fender Jazz I owned years ago hummed like crazy.

The 1/2 price of retail is what I use when I sell something. I usually hold on to a bass long enough to where the retail price increases and I end up close to breaking even.
 
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