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G&L LB-100 owners...

#42
Root 5 said:
^^^^^ Based on the red silk I'm seeing, they're La Bella 45-105s or Rotosound 77 flats
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Quotes from video description "I put a set of GHS Precision Flats on the G&L LB100 and it's like having a totally different axe! This setup is probably more practical for me as I tend to prefer flats on a P bass most of the time. What can I say? The bass sounds awesome like this. "


Just got my GHS precision Flats in... playing them through the mixer. It sound great. I adds some SERIOUS girth, thump to the E & A. The D & G are still pretty "nickley" which will die down in a while I'm told. Regardless... totally cool on this bass. Now I can go from serious old school P bass thump \ warmth to crazy aggressive P with nickels or gasp... even steels!

The most versatile P I've ever played. Most Ps Ive had\tried were always that 1 really sweet tone regardless of strings.
 
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@ bass_steak --- Bought a Detroit Muscle Series during the Holiday. Light, great punch and clarity. The in-house wound PU sounds great and has great string balance and not a dead spot to be found. For and finish better than any of the other mass produced USA products.... At a better price. Better in every regard than my '75 and '06 P's.Look around out there, there are some great deals to be had. Check Ed Friedland's review on YouTube, and then go BUY ONE!
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LUCE said:
@ bass_steak --- Bought a Detroit Muscle Series during the Holiday. Light, great punch and clarity. The in-house wound PU sounds great and has great string balance and not a dead spot to be found. For and finish better than any of the other mass produced USA products.... At a better price. Better in every regard than my '75 and '06 P's.Look around out there, there are some great deals to be had. Check Ed Friedland's review on YouTube, and then go BUY ONE!View attachment 543364
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Total beauty & totally right. I've been recommending rosewood with the LB-100 to make it more vintage sounding but you slap some GHS precision flats on the maple LB-100 & you have vintage... go back to nickels & you have a snarly cutting beast too. I'm AMAZED at the versatility of this P. My MIA Fender P was a 1 trick pony.
 
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Dude, these GHS Precision Flats are absolutely incredible ! HIGHLY recommend them! Although my first shot at flats its EXACTLY what I had in my mind for the tonal change I was looking into. Boy is this maple LB-100 a total vintage tone machine right now. Give them a week to settle down & the D & G come back to the rest of the pack
 
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Which GHS Precision flats are you folks using, gauges, product # on package.
I was looking on the GHS site and looking at the M3050 Precision flat set gauges: 105,85,65,45 and has 38 in. winding is this the set you all are using on your LB-100 G&L?
 
#50
R&B said:
I'm rocking GHS Precision Flats. Compared with my Fenders, the G&L sounds a bit brighter. ... the 0.022 cap makes the tone too bright for me through most of the range of the tone control.
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Woa, wait, it has a .022 uF cap? Hmmm. Maybe I'll change mine to the more standard .047.

I have the LB100 with Empress body and Rosewood / quarter sawn #8 neck. Running GHS Precision flats on it. Basic tone is great though maybe a tad bright. I love the light weight of mine and jazz width #8 neck. I expect to have this bass for the rest of my bass playing days.
 
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darwin-bass said:
Woa, wait, it has a .022 uF cap? Hmmm. Maybe I'll change mine to the more standard .047.

I have the LB100 with Empress body and Rosewood / quarter sawn #8 neck. Running GHS Precision flats on it. Basic tone is great though maybe a tad bright. I love the light weight of mine and jazz width #8 neck. I expect to have this bass for the rest of my bass playing days.
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I too have the same LB-100, I too find it a little bright and I would like a bit more bottom. Having said that it will cut through just fine as is.
And, it wears GHS Precision Flats .045 - .105, the same as my MIM P.
 
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darwin-bass said:
Woa, wait, it has a .022 uF cap? Hmmm. Maybe I'll change mine to the more standard .047.

I have the LB100 with Empress body and Rosewood / quarter sawn #8 neck. Running GHS Precision flats on it. Basic tone is great though maybe a tad bright. I love the light weight of mine and jazz width #8 neck. I expect to have this bass for the rest of my bass playing days.
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I like the brightness so the tone knob does something vs go right into mud
 
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darwin-bass said:
Now that you mention it, through my full-range hi-fil style home rehearsal system it sounds great. Through the midrange-heavy giging amp it is a bit light on lows, but once the mains are up and the subs flood the stage I'm no longer feeling thin.
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I wanted to have ONE maple bass I would like. I've sold EVERY maple bass as the same thing in Rosewood is always better because of a thicker D & G string. The thin tone in maple at my D & G made my fills inaudible & the lows a bit too grindy. Since the LB100 is low mid punchy my design its not thin even with maple. I compared it to a MIA Fender P & Lakland P in rosewood & if I rolled off tone in either one of those it was far too thick. It was just one tone. The LB-100 has far more applications \ tonal variety.
 
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Anyone looking to sell theirs? Thought I'd ask, just in case and before I spent the money elsewhere. If interested, quartersawn with rosewood are my only must haves. @strost, lost out on yours by just a few days; wanted it real bad. :banghead:
 
#59
Tunaman said:
Its funny you say that... what are the stock strings? I'm not that much of a fan either. I'm not playing the LB-100 much as I NEVER play four strings so I was thinking of putting it up for a trade. I should do a string change 1st. I do love playing it with the #8 neck & a pick. Its so even, aggressive & cutting... the most of any bass I have but still retains punch & isn't thin
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D'Addario EXL170 nickel wounds.
 
#60
I did change out the pickups that came with my Legacy (see avatar) to the LB 100 pickups from G&L. Great tone but I since changed them to SB-1's with a 0.47 cap and now I have a really beefy P sound.

Also have GHS Precision Flatwounds on it.

My go to bass now. Thinking of selling my SB-2 because I like the Legacy more.
 
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