I'm just gonna go out and say it... I love the black headstocks... especially on the HoBos and Decades where they don't match the body. (I know this is a blacker than my ex-wife's heart Black Geezer sig, but still)
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Lakland Owners Group #68
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I'm just gonna go out and say it... I love the black headstocks... especially on the HoBos and Decades where they don't match the body. (I know this is a blacker than my ex-wife's heart Black Geezer sig, but still)
this is the prototype they showed at NAMM, just looks like the R-in-circle registered mark. If it's anything else other than that, as Doug said, Markus would be the only one, since its his photoshop work being displayed there.
T-1 goes on the P, T-2 goes on the PJ last I heard.
Beautiful bass. However, if you want a REAL USA JO, go back to the stock setup. Mine (above) had a J Retro installed when I bought it, but the original pickups. I brought it to Lakland and they put it all back in passive mode with the concentric controls so I could have a real JO not modded. Also torted the black PG as you can see. I guess I felt that a modded US Lakland is not really a Lakland.
Idk...they offer j retro as option and I like the option of passive/active. I played so many jazz basses and laklands with mods/stock setups....it was real hard to tell difference in sounds....the stock lakland JO pickups are nothing special at all really...and the last owner felt the same way cause he swapped them out too...btw it was factory plek'd and that's a big difference in playability with low action. ...if I get bored ill switch out to stock...but for 1800...I couldn't pass it up....mint condition
I'm a fan of the black headstock on the HoBo's too, but a matched headstock can be a thing of beauty..
So Markus, there's a T-1 insiginia after the D on the website image? It's hard to see from the image. Is there significance to Geezer on these designations?
Saw the talk about amp and cab choices.
Personally ( imo)
Mesa!
I am in love with Mesa stuff.
Tried so many other brands and this by far is my all time favorite.
This is the current set up.
I would love to hear this rig at gig volume! So sweet man!
For me, this is only true of the US 4-94 and 5-94. Those are the quintessential Lakland basses and if ever there was a Lakland sound, those two basses have it. Everything else that Lakland does (Decade excluded) is just a better version of another design. That being said, "If it ain't broke..."
With the exception listed above, I'm in your camp. While I prefer passive basses, electronics don't mean as much to me with respect to the soul of a bass. I think what is supremely more important is the playability, and that's what a Lakland has in spades!
100 % with you brandon...there's no such thing as real j bass except for original 62 that the JO is based off of....the look.. feel ...sound...smells...haha. are what matter to me...if you changed 4-94's then yes...too weird..
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Yup, yup, good thoughts. Taking it a step further: I imagine playing a Lakland -01 model with stainless steel strings through a Genz Shuttle head and one of those old Bergantino HT cabs. I've never tried this combo together myself, but my knowledge of the individual components leads me to believe it would yield a tone with a lot of zingy treble and probably not much meat in the low mids and "mid" mids.
Now imagine playing a Lakland HB with flats through a Genz Streamliner and a Berg NV215. Probably a polar opposite!
So, hard for me to generalize about brands and tone. Laklands are (obviously) my favorite bass maker, 'cause I love the necks. But with amps and cabs, I'm not very loyal. Love the Berg NV610, for example, but I'm not sure any of Jim's nonsealed cabs will float my boat.
I have actually been able to do this. A local Indy shop has a Berg HT322 that I tried with a Shuttle and Streamliner. I used my 55-01 with the US Bart pups and pre and a 55-01 that they had with the stock stuff. The US Barts did sound better. The stock stuff was not bad, but lots of highs. The tweeter need to come way down.
Yup, yup, good thoughts. Taking it a step further: I imagine playing a Lakland -01 model with stainless steel strings through a Genz Shuttle head and one of those old Bergantino HT cabs. I've never tried this combo together myself, but my knowledge of the individual components leads me to believe it would yield a tone with a lot of zingy treble and probably not much meat in the low mids and "mid" mids.
Now imagine playing a Lakland HB with flats through a Genz Streamliner and a Berg NV215. Probably a polar opposite!
So, hard for me to generalize about brands and tone. Laklands are (obviously) my favorite bass maker, 'cause I love the necks. But with amps and cabs, I'm not very loyal. Love the Berg NV610, for example, but I'm not sure any of Jim's nonsealed cabs will float my boat.
I gig with Berg HT115's. Lots of low mid thump with my bass and head. The HT gives you what you put into it. Zing in will equal zing out
This is what's important to me in a cab...transparency. I hate having to EQ because of a cabinet's frequency response. I like a scooped mid sound, so when I play through a cabinet that's tuned for a mids bump it's frustrating to deal with. I know my tastes are not other people's tastes, but what I appreciate about the two Berg cabs I've played with are their transparency (to my ears anyway). It seems like transparency is a part of Jim's design equation, at least in some of his products.
Right-o, Tom, though that DB750 you use is a low-mid machine. Transparency is in the ear of the beholder, of course.
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