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G&L L1000 vs L1500
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And don't forget Thomann, they have a white Kiloton in stock, and a generous return policy.
- Jul 3, 2004
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I honor of Halloween - zombies among us - my main baby - Empress rules
Would it be heresy to stick a mm style pickup in the correct sr position on a l1k and simply add a on off toggle.. It would be passive but idk how to make this work while preserving the original circuit. Of course I would love a 2 eq to have the best of both worlds. Ugh
dukeplaysbass
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I'm trying to reason with myself how to create one instrument to suit my personal needs. A Leo buffet bass. I once had a ripper bass with a nearly dead neck pickup and the sound inspired me. I could also stick a EB series pickup in the neck position of a stingray to achieve this.
Mind you the aesthetics of either choice will be laughable.
*sorry for high jacking the thread, was just reading up to see if anyone here modified their l1k with a bridge pup*
*sorry for high jacking the thread, was just reading up to see if anyone here modified their l1k with a bridge pup*
dukeplaysbass
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I've seen a couple that had an added bridge pickup. Most lived to regret it.
I also once bought one that someone had pulled the pickup and dropped in a pair of J pickups. The route had been made too big, so I dropped in a Dark Star. THAT was a pretty good bass - not the G&L sound, but a massive improvement on the crummy JJ setup.
I also once bought one that someone had pulled the pickup and dropped in a pair of J pickups. The route had been made too big, so I dropped in a Dark Star. THAT was a pretty good bass - not the G&L sound, but a massive improvement on the crummy JJ setup.
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My first brand new bass...took out a loan to get it! My memory says it was in 1980 or 1981. My memory also says it was the first year they came out, but that could be wrong too 
Grew to kinda dislike the trans blue, but man, that was a great sounding bass. Got stolen in 1986 and I've been kinda feeling sentimental about getting another early 80's one some day
Grew to kinda dislike the trans blue, but man, that was a great sounding bass. Got stolen in 1986 and I've been kinda feeling sentimental about getting another early 80's one some day
New member with a natural L1000 fretless in near mint condition. The "wunkay" name requires no explanation...and the OMG switch position description, I never knew till now....but the first time(and every time) I switched to it.....was mind blowing.
Thanks to all here for their "cloud" database of bass data!!!!
dukeplaysbass
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That reminded me of the moment I learned that my ASAT tone knobs were cut-only. I bought it new and owned the thing for probably 7 years before I ran across that piece of info. All of a sudden, I could do a lot more with those controls....
Nice thread!
I just bought a 1981 S-1000 and one thing is strange. The small dot markers on the side are more or less ON the frets, not inbetween.
My first real bass was a fretless Stingray which I had converted to a bass with frets in the early 80´s, so I´m sure there are more former fretless basses out there.
Now I have to answer my question myself. While writing this I looked at some pics of early Wunkays, they have Fender like dots on the fretboard, mine has smaller ones... It´s definitely a former fretless and not original. :-(
The frets are huge, that´s one of the reasons why the neck feels a bit too fat compared to my 77 Stingray.
Too bad, there are not many of them over here in Europe.
I just bought a 1981 S-1000 and one thing is strange. The small dot markers on the side are more or less ON the frets, not inbetween.
My first real bass was a fretless Stingray which I had converted to a bass with frets in the early 80´s, so I´m sure there are more former fretless basses out there.
Now I have to answer my question myself. While writing this I looked at some pics of early Wunkays, they have Fender like dots on the fretboard, mine has smaller ones... It´s definitely a former fretless and not original. :-(
The frets are huge, that´s one of the reasons why the neck feels a bit too fat compared to my 77 Stingray.
Too bad, there are not many of them over here in Europe.
dukeplaysbass
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Welcome to the Wunkay Nation, @Mutzel .
Your post reminded me about the time I almost got taken by a guy who had a converted fretless Wunkay up north of LA. I drove (and drove and drove) to get to his place outside Ventura for what he insisted was a “factory special order” 80 or 81 hog/ebony Wunkay with a no-dot neck. It had a gorgeous slab of ebony, too - nice grain, with coloring from black to milk chocolate. But when I sat down to play the bass, I saw the side markers right at the frets, just like yours, and started to get suspicious. He’d had it on a guitar stand, so I put it back in the stand and walked back about 10-15 feet to look at it and think about it, and that’s when I realized it was a conversion, because only at that distance and angle could you tell that a couple of the frets weren’t prefectly parallel.
On the upside for you, you could refret it with smaller frets and that might help. Or you can try to find another G&L neck.
Where are you in Europe?
Your post reminded me about the time I almost got taken by a guy who had a converted fretless Wunkay up north of LA. I drove (and drove and drove) to get to his place outside Ventura for what he insisted was a “factory special order” 80 or 81 hog/ebony Wunkay with a no-dot neck. It had a gorgeous slab of ebony, too - nice grain, with coloring from black to milk chocolate. But when I sat down to play the bass, I saw the side markers right at the frets, just like yours, and started to get suspicious. He’d had it on a guitar stand, so I put it back in the stand and walked back about 10-15 feet to look at it and think about it, and that’s when I realized it was a conversion, because only at that distance and angle could you tell that a couple of the frets weren’t prefectly parallel.
On the upside for you, you could refret it with smaller frets and that might help. Or you can try to find another G&L neck.
Where are you in Europe?
As the owner of an 81 L2Ke, 82 L1k and 83 L2K this is the primo succinct description of their electronics. Mine are all hogs and heavy as a fat-bottomed girl but I have and have had a lot of lighter weight later G&Ls but none possess the thunder and grind of this unholy trio. I don't care for some of Leos later "evolutions" I got yer refinement right here or as Steve from that old bass site liked to do and say "they take a lickin' and keep on..."
