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G&L Introduces Short Scale Fallout Bass - Launch Edition

#83
Dimension said:
..and I can't get past the name "OMG mode". I really hope it stands for something else.
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Been reading this same sentiment in several posts and I think I’m correct in that OMG was made up by players/listeners, and later adopted by G&L ... and in my opinion this ought to deflect a little of the heat from the company as they were sorta trying to speak the consumers’ language. Pretty sure that it was originally called “series with bass boost.”
Take it for what you will ... I’m an admitted G&L fanboy since 1982.
 
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#84
Lowbrow said:
Been reading this same sentiment in several posts and I think I’m correct in that OMG was made up by players/listeners, and later adopted by G&L ... and in my opinion this ought to deflect a little of the heat from the company as they were sorta trying to speak the consumers’ language. Pretty sure that it was originally called “series with bass boost.”
Take it for what you will ... I’m an admitted G&L fanboy since 1982.
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G&L makes great basses. There is no doubt about that. I am still looking forward to playing the Fallout sometime soon. It's more the idea that they are ambiguously labeling the setting with internet slang. Rhetorically, what would have been wrong with "SBB mode"?
 
#85
"Series/parallel/split," or "standard/parallel/split" works for me. "OMG" to refer to "normal" for a humbucking pickup is idiotic, if it actually means "oh my god."

My plan is to hard wire the pickup in series, remove the switch, put an extra pot in the switch's place, and wire the bass up with PTB controls. Unless parallel and split modes truly wow me (not likely, as I have had a '96 L-200 since 1997, and have quite literally never made one use of these modes), this is what I will do.
 
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2F/2F said:
"Series/parallel/split," or "standard/parallel/split" works for me. "OMG" to refer to "normal" for a humbucking pickup is idiotic, if it actually means "oh my god."

My plan is to hard wire the pickup in series, remove the switch, put an extra pot in the switch's place, and wire the bass up with PTB controls. Unless parallel and split modes truly wow me (not likely, as I have had a '96 L-200 since 1997, and have quite literally never made one use of these modes), this is what I will do.
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OMG is not just some marketing speak for "normal humbucking mode." That would typically be series wiring. OMG mode (as described elsewhere here, I believe) is actually series wiring with a capacitor on one coil to suck a lot of the treble out. The perception is "bass boost."

Do what you want with your pickups, obviously, but as a longtime L1000 fan, I would strongly advise you to audition the stock wiring before messing with it. Also, be aware the the wiring scheme on these is going to be a big feature with the G&L geeks out there so if you think you might ever sell the bass, you might want to be prepared to return it to stock. Just one guy's $.02. I've owned a handful of L1000 basses over the years, mostly purchased used and I would never have picked up one if the guts had been messed with.
 
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#91
Madcity Fats said:
OMG is not just some marketing speak for "normal humbucking mode." That would typically be series wiring. OMG mode (as described elsewhere here, I believe) is actually series wiring with a capacitor on one coil to suck a lot of the treble out. The perception is "bass boost."

Do what you want with your pickups, obviously, but as a longtime L1000 fan, I would strongly advise you to audition the stock wiring before messing with it. Also, be aware the the wiring scheme on these is going to be a big feature with the G&L geeks out there so if you think you might ever sell the bass, you might want to be prepared to return it to stock. Just one guy's $.02. I've owned a handful of L1000 basses over the years, mostly purchased used and I would never have picked up one if the guts had been messed with.
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I am not concerned about any of that, and I know what I'm doing when it comes to modding instruments (or restoring them, if need be). I also don't generally sell instruments – especially ones that I bother to buy brand new. In 31 years of playing bass, I have sold only a handful of instruments (probably 4–5) – all lower end ones. Anything else I've sold was inherited, and just didn't speak to me.

It goes without saying that an instrument gets played stock for a while. But I also know G&Ls, and what I like and dislike about them, and what I use and don't use on them, so I have a pretty good idea what will work for me. I am, in fact, a major G&L geek (though mostly in regards to their guitars). I've been playing them since '97 (L-2000, which I still have), and coveted one for years before that (first fell in love with a metallic purple Skyhawk). I have several rare, and even a few one of a kind, G&Ls in my collection.

Also, speaking of resale with G&Ls is kind of a joke. They have always had piss-poor resale value – even rare ones. If one is buying a new G&L and thinking about possible resale, there's a conceptual error in that person's thinking and motivations. When I buy a new G&L, more than any other brand, I make damned sure that I really, really want it, and it's really, really something special, because resale is such a joke that it's a non factor. They lose 30 to 40 percent of their new retail value the second you take ownership, and they don't ever come back up from there – only down – as the years pass. I only buy one if I want it for life.
 
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#92
Not interested in any short-scale bass, I really like the MFD pickup and circuitry of this bass.

Not interested in a gloss-finish neck, I would not buy one of G&L's current CLF Research L-1000 basses. I like G&L's standard satin neck finish too much to go back to gloss.
 
#93
Back in 2014, G&L made a limited run of L-1000 and L-1005 basses. They differed from the L-1000 model when cancelled for the 1991 introduction of the Climax bass only by sporting the modified L-series body shape introduced 1999/2000 and by the addition of the 5-string variant, the L-1005.

G&L: Please bring back the L-1000 and L-1005 models that you teased the market with in 2014 as a full part of the catalogue, with all the options you offer for any other USA-made model of bass: choice of fingerboard woods, the full palette of standard and premium finishes, fretless option, reasonable upcharge for ash or empress body wood, neck options, etc.

If/when you do this, please announce it here and on Basses By Leo. I already have the money to order one as a sister to my beloved L-1500.
 
#98
Mine arrived today, just got done at rehearsal with it. I really love it. Plays and sounds like a dream and it looks super badass! I'm just beginning to fiddle with the intricacies of the MFD, but i dialed in a classic p-bass sound with a bit more thud. Also I ordered mine with flat wounds, so it's got that nice warm vintage sound. Yes it's expensive, but it's an incredible bass.
It's also the first short scale I've owned, and it doesn't feel strange at all, and definitely not lacking n depth or character. Check one out if you have a chance, I have no regrets about the purchase, feel lucky to have gotten the launch edition. Not sure but i think they only made a few hundred, trying to find out.
 
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GlennRH said:
Not interested in any short-scale bass, I really like the MFD pickup and circuitry of this bass.

Not interested in a gloss-finish neck, I would not buy one of G&L's current CLF Research L-1000 basses. I like G&L's standard satin neck finish too much to go back to gloss.
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The fallout has the satin finish neck. At least mine does.
 
#100
Lowbrow said:
Been reading this same sentiment in several posts and I think I’m correct in that OMG was made up by players/listeners, and later adopted by G&L ... and in my opinion this ought to deflect a little of the heat from the company as they were sorta trying to speak the consumers’ language. Pretty sure that it was originally called “series with bass boost.”
Take it for what you will ... I’m an admitted G&L fanboy since 1982.
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Yeah from what I can tell thats exactly right: series with a bass boost. It's pretty heavy for sure.
 
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