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Night and day difference. The 1 5/8" neck is my preference, much smoother and easier to play than the chunky 1 3/4" neck. After a week of short fingers , I just kept thinking about this having played it in the store 3x already.
Sold the P bass today which paid the difference over the tribute to get here. Very nice bass
Figured I would try this here in the G&L club. Any G&L L2000, L2500 fretless players here care to post up some sound clips (bridge pick up, Neck, both, parralell/series) ? How about any fretless Kiloton owners? Much appreciated if you can! Not much out there on the web pertaining to G&L fretless basses in general.
+1 Here on that. A G&L 5 string fretless ticks every box I have or can be think of but audio is hard to find. You may find a rare clip of a 2/2.5k but nothing on any other model.
Maurie.
This track was my fretless L2500, bridge pickup, parallel, with TI Jazz Flats.
Also, Post #5410 has a video with the same bass (recorded almost exactly 1 year ago). I had D'Addario rounds on it then.
Also, I used it a bunch with both Link Removed albums. A couple really good example are Reliving A Fear You Faced and Whatever You See, Hold On Tight. Again, rounds, parallel. I had 3 tracks going - direct, distortion/effects, and octave down.
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Thanks for that LFG, the tone on One Day is to die for - not that the others are shabby but that growl makes me drool : )
I want to "rationalise" my gear for my
getting doddery years but need to "see"
the whole thing working in my head before commiting sort of thing.
So far it's a 2.5K Fretless G&L/Tribute with my Eden 550 pushing two fEARful 12/6/1's. Sounds good in my imaginationing - what do you think?
Cheers Maurie.
I want to "rationalise" my gear for my
getting doddery years but need to "see"
the whole thing working in my head before commiting sort of thing.
So far it's a 2.5K Fretless G&L/Tribute with my Eden 550 pushing two fEARful 12/6/1's. Sounds good in my imaginationing - what do you think?
Cheers Maurie.
Thanks, Maurie!
The L2500 is definitely a versatile beast! I was going for specific sounds with each of those examples, and I achieved what I was after fairly well. We wanted the growl for One Day, but I wanted the clank for the After Osmosis tracks (played through an SWR head, now that I think about it), and the smoothness of the Gabrielle Louise youtube video.
I've never played a G&L through an Eden, but I suspect it might work out nicely. Especially with good cabs like the fEARful. FWIW, I've run my L2500 passive for most of the (nearly) 8 years I've had it. I definitely make a lot of use of the passive bass and treble controls, but my preference is to leave the treble up and roll back the bass as needed. These things have a LOT of low mids and can benefit from knocking a little off. Leo knew what he was doing when he put in the passive bass roll-off. With the TI flats, the top end is present, but it's not clanky. Rounds can produce more clank depending on how the treble is set.
For a good representation of the sounds from the neck pickup, Dave Pomeroy did a great sample with his Invalid Link Removed.
Good luck, and have fun!
I'll certainly do my best on the "fun" quest!
The G&L/fEARful is now for certain - thanks.
The Eden is vying with a Mesa B "D 800" type PreAmp box with a Prolight 2 but the 550 should give me a good start with my first efforts with a fretless I think, at 64 I'm not sure how much gigging is in my future, so I reckon it's time to play what I want rather than what I "have" to, to be gigging and just play for the love of the Music wether there be gigs or not.
Maurie.
The G&L/fEARful is now for certain - thanks.
The Eden is vying with a Mesa B "D 800" type PreAmp box with a Prolight 2 but the 550 should give me a good start with my first efforts with a fretless I think, at 64 I'm not sure how much gigging is in my future, so I reckon it's time to play what I want rather than what I "have" to, to be gigging and just play for the love of the Music wether there be gigs or not.
Maurie.
Oh yea - Thanks for the Dave Pomeroy linky too - He's talking about exactly why I want to go Fretless.
WOW, Thanks LFG! Your bridge pickup sounds Huge! Your sound on the video was awesome. Big yet sweeet. Thank you. Any more clips would be appreciated.
Hey everyone - this post is a little self satisfying but I guess I cant believe I've never really tried to understand the L2000 electronics.
A little context....I have owned 2 mid 90's L2000 for about 6 years and have always loved the playability and tone. I've always known the bass and treble we cut only, therefore I've always run them fully on....why would I want to cut right? I always imagined that with both these controls dime that was giving me a "flat" response from the bass.
Now as I said I've always loved the tone from this bass, but playing live in my band I've always thought the tone became too muddy and overpowering, and I struggled to EQ it down.
So last night after a gig where I was frustrated with bass tone I sat down with my L2000, my pedal board and a FOH speaker to work on my live tone. I had seen clips of Ed Friedland playing his L2500, running both tone knobs at different settings, so I tried rolling them both totally off. Tone was ok, but a little dark and maybe honky in the mids.
Then I tried with bass and treble rolled up about a 1\4....wow, nice sound. I settled on bass up about a 1\3, treble upper about 1\4. This played with a pick produced a great punchy rock tone with no annoying\overpowering muddy bass and no harsh clacky treble. Tried it today at soundcheck....perfect.
I'm such a dumbass but I now get the L2000 electronics and have found a new love for this bass .
A little context....I have owned 2 mid 90's L2000 for about 6 years and have always loved the playability and tone. I've always known the bass and treble we cut only, therefore I've always run them fully on....why would I want to cut right? I always imagined that with both these controls dime that was giving me a "flat" response from the bass.
Now as I said I've always loved the tone from this bass, but playing live in my band I've always thought the tone became too muddy and overpowering, and I struggled to EQ it down.
So last night after a gig where I was frustrated with bass tone I sat down with my L2000, my pedal board and a FOH speaker to work on my live tone. I had seen clips of Ed Friedland playing his L2500, running both tone knobs at different settings, so I tried rolling them both totally off. Tone was ok, but a little dark and maybe honky in the mids.
Then I tried with bass and treble rolled up about a 1\4....wow, nice sound. I settled on bass up about a 1\3, treble upper about 1\4. This played with a pick produced a great punchy rock tone with no annoying\overpowering muddy bass and no harsh clacky treble. Tried it today at soundcheck....perfect.
I'm such a dumbass but I now get the L2000 electronics and have found a new love for this bass .
Right there with you. Took me a while to truly understand what the system did. I can crank any sound I want out of mine, though I tend to favor the neck in series, with some treble. Like a P bass, but more ass.
I'm ok with the volume....I like to run it flat out and attenuate it if need be with the Boss EQ that is almost last in line on my board....they certainly are hot suckers though!
Found the treble rolled all the way off and bass at 1/2 with a pick is a real nice punchy
what strings are you guys using that gives such versatility on these L2Ks? I'm going to try flats to get away from the 1 and only dominating tone mine produces. currently the only way I can find any other tone is to 0 everything on my bass in passive and barely crack open the vol. and then work the amp's controls a lot more than usual. my example is exceedingly limited in scope, I'm ready to yoink the whole package and go vintage basic, the bass looks too good to get rid of and I'm sick of not enjoying it.Right there with you. Took me a while to truly understand what the system did. I can crank any sound I want out of mine, though I tend to favor the neck in series, with some treble. Like a P bass, but more ass.
Mine has the factory D'Addario XLs on it. Only bass I've liked them on as they seem bright on my other basses
At one time SIT power wound were factory on these IIRC. I REALLY like those strings
At one time SIT power wound were factory on these IIRC. I REALLY like those strings
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