Yes I've been slacking off lately. SLACKING!It may tiny love, but that's more than made up for in sheer volume of posts.
Hell, just from you alone I see about 3K threads per day about the Kiloton!
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the sb-2 is a weird one, it always brought the goods in the studio, live indoors, and live outdoors, but just playing in my house it always sounded not quite right unless it had long in the tooth hi beams(i really wanted to sound like a piano at the time), for me it was definitely a great band mix bass, i just was too fussy with it around the house for some reason
eventually i had to get rid of it, because when i turned 43 jazz width necks suddenly became kind of uncomfortable and more difficult for me to play
therefore i'm rocking the 84 L2000 and 94 LB100, because of their chunkier necks and pleasing house and live tones
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Funny, I did this as well. I put the split MFD in a Squier precision special. Realized I had to have an SB of some kind. Got the SB-1 and loved it. But then I borrowed an SB-2 for a while, and decided I had to have one of those, too.
Lol... I doubt that I've ever heard anyone on TB so close to my own tone requirements. I don't recall us ever discussing it, but piano tone is always what I shoot/ shot for, and primarily why the SB didn't work for me.
As for necks, that's what sent me to G&L in the first place. They were the only ones willing to give me 57 P profile, and that's what all of my basses have now. So... Even my Fender P's feel like an Ibanez compared to my G&L's
Where the bleep are all you guys coming up with split MFD's? Lol.
OK, so just put the Chromes on the LB-100 and spent 15 minutes A/Bing it and my SB-2 with the same strings on. Here's the observations:
(i) The SB has *way* more output, even with pickup heights up and optimized on the LB-100. It's kind of shocking comparing the two basses. The SB kicks output butt.
(ii) The tone of the LB-100 is, in two words, simple and straightforward. At least with these strings, the sound isn't particularly harmonically rich. It's mid-forward and uncomplicated, maybe even a little bland.
(iii) The tone of the SB-2 using the neck pickup only is much richer and more complex. There's a toothiness to it that is very satisfying. Cranking the volume back to match the LB-100 dimed, it's still richer sounding: more P-ish but decidedly not like the LB.
(iv) Adding the SB's bridge pickup makes for a very warm, rich sound that is a world away from the LB.
My first impression (and I know some of you won't agree with this) is that the Chromes are not a great match for my LB at least. The somewhat bright, uncomplicated sound is not what I want in this bass. So tonight I'll put on the La Bellas which were conveniently (if you call a 2 week wait convenient) in the mail today. We'll see. I paid a lot of money for the new LB and it's pretty as all get out but, with Chromes on at least, the Tribute SB is way more interesting.
Kijiji from a nice guy in Newfoundland. [There's no other kind on The Rock.]
Yes I'm just surprised that several people would've ordered them, I was more getting the impression that they were being removed from SB2's.
SO THE BIG QUESTION IS...
Who has put one in a P?
Also, @armyadarkness you need this and it's on clearance!
Instruments - CLF079488 Year: 2017 prototype finish
Instruments - CLF079488 Year: 2017 prototype finish
How cool would it be if G&L sold all of it's stuff like Warmoth?
Even though I was done with SB's for a while, I would've if it wasn't for the Ibanez neck on it.
Doesn't even have to be all of it... they could offer just 1 basic maple FB and 1 rosewood (or some CITES safe equivalent) FB for each model.
I desperately NEED room now, but after I sell those two rigs, then I'll build another Kilo and an L2000. My living room is tiny and it literally has 20 speakers in it now.
It's a sad state of affairs when you can order a combat Light Saber, but not a neck for a G&L.
I'm arguing with a guy on CL right now because he insists that it should have black cloth on it... So, stay tuned. I'd rather give it to you then to sell it to a turd handler like this tool.Just drop off your Ampeg stuff up this way and I'll hold on to it for you
Tell him that it's a super rare special edition that was commissioned by Gene Simmons himself and that it's worth at least 10 grand but since he's a local Jersey boy, you'll do him a solid and sell it to him for $900, no questions asked.
