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G&L Club Part 7

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Just had to post . I used my new JB Tribute at practice with the band last night and had a ball . Very good Jazz growl and more bottom end than I expected , those Alnico pickups are the real deal . My Sire is in a gig bag in the basement and my Talman TNB 605 is taking a rest for a while . Both those basses are as good as I could want , great pickups and preamps but this JB has won me over and it will be my main squeeze for a while . I've wanted an L2500 for a long time and I thought that if I got a G&L that would be it but I'm happy with this one . Great quality and sound .
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Blues Bass 2 said:
Just had to post . I used my new JB Tribute at practice with the band last night and had a ball . Very good Jazz growl and more bottom end than I expected , those Alnico pickups are the real deal . My Sire is in a gig bag in the basement and my Talman TNB 605 is taking a rest for a while . Both those basses are as good as I could want , great pickups and preamps but this JB has won me over and it will be my main squeeze for a while . I've wanted an L2500 for a long time and I thought that if I got a G&L that would be it but I'm happy with this one . Great quality and sound .View attachment 3925266
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Pretty too! :)
 
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Holdsg said:
I had one of those in that color, for a second. It was defective (bridge was in wrong location, 34 1/2" scale) so I returned it. Glad that one's working great for you.
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The first run of these seemed to have the standard 21-fret G&L neck. The JB was designed for a 20-fret neck, more in line with a traditional J bass. Per Blues Bass 2’s photo, it looks like they’ve fixed that problem.
 
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Blues Bass 2 said:
Just had to post . I used my new JB Tribute at practice with the band last night and had a ball . Very good Jazz growl and more bottom end than I expected , those Alnico pickups are the real deal . My Sire is in a gig bag in the basement and my Talman TNB 605 is taking a rest for a while . Both those basses are as good as I could want , great pickups and preamps but this JB has won me over and it will be my main squeeze for a while . I've wanted an L2500 for a long time and I thought that if I got a G&L that would be it but I'm happy with this one . Great quality and sound .View attachment 3925266
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Very nice!
 
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Joshua said:
Thought I'd add a little NBD magic to this awesome thread.

First and foremost; mad props (again!) to Greg at Rocket Music. (@RocketMusic) This guy really works hard to help his customers, and he supports TB. Next time you're in the market for gear, keep him in mind.

So someone on here is the lucky owner of my Rocket Music special run L1000 fretless. Every time I think of that bass I kinda regret selling it, even if I never really bonded with it. P Bass style instruments and I have always had a love hate relationship. It's most definitely me, and not the bass(es), and that one is an awesome axe for sure. So I decided I wanted to give a more specifically Precision style variant a go, and went with the LB100. I considered strongly an SB1, but decided to go with something less similar to the L1000 (in a way).

Without further ado from the G&L Instagram page, is my new bass. 8 pounds pretty much on the nose, and playing like a champ right out of the case:

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So I find myself @ a year on with this beauty, and am as blown away now as I was out of the gate. I'm trying to learn a little more about the finer details and thought I'd ask here:

1) Is the pickup in standard P land?
2) What is the 411 on the pickup? Anything unique to it?

Basically, I am amazed at the versatility. It seems like with hand placement and tone control adjustments I'm able to get a lot more variety than I'd expect from a single pickup bass.

And by the way, again, Greg is the man. Please at least consider @RocketMusic for your G&L (and other!) needs. He really goes the extra mile.
 
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Joshua said:
So I find myself @ a year on with this beauty, and am as blown away now as I was out of the gate. I'm trying to learn a little more about the finer details and thought I'd ask here:
1) Is the pickup in standard P land?
2) What is the 411 on the pickup? Anything unique to it?
Basically, I am amazed at the versatility. It seems like with hand placement and tone control adjustments I'm able to get a lot more variety than I'd expect from a single pickup bass.
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Definitely in P-land. I replaced the pickup in mine with a Lindy Fralin pickup, which for me is the P-bass sound I hear in my head. The stock G&L pickup in the LB-100 is very close to that, and thus I think pretty much smack in the classic P-bass sound. And you're right, as a class of instruments, "P-basses" are ridiculously versatile for the simplicity of their design. I played my '68 Fender P and nothing else for more than 20 years in a shockingly wide range of genres and between fingerstyle/thumb/pick, hand placement, palm muting, and tone control tweaking was able to get a perfectly viable tone in all of it. I still have that bass, although I don't take it out much anymore, and the LB-100 does what that Fender does, and in someways it's more resonant, lighter (in Empress), and very, very pretty (which that Fender ain't anymore).
 
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Joshua said:
So I find myself @ a year on with this beauty, and am as blown away now as I was out of the gate. I'm trying to learn a little more about the finer details and thought I'd ask here:

1) Is the pickup in standard P land?
2) What is the 411 on the pickup? Anything unique to it?

Basically, I am amazed at the versatility. It seems like with hand placement and tone control adjustments I'm able to get a lot more variety than I'd expect from a single pickup bass.

And by the way, again, Greg is the man. Please at least consider @RocketMusic for your G&L (and other!) needs. He really goes the extra mile.
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I forget when this happened, but based on pickguardheaven's LB-100 offerings I think it was around 2015...

G&L actually moved the pickup location to be exactly like a Precision sometime around 2015. Prior to that, the pickup was biased towards the bridge just a smidge (like 1/4" or so). So now when you buy a replacement pickguard for an LB-100, you actually need to know the year your bass was built if you want one that fits right.

Fun fact! :)

** EDIT - oh, and thanks for the kind words, Josh! **
 
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