After having owned a G&L L-1505 and trying numerous 2500s (all thoroughly A/Bed with my Stingray 5ers) I'd stay away. Uncomfortable to play, noisy preamp with a ridiculous layout (calling these active electronics is a hell of an overstatement), etc. Now, I've also thoroughly tested HH Stingrays and Sterlings and I'd get an HS model over an HH. In fact I've owned a Sterling5 HS. The problem with HH Musicmen that work with a switch is that they can only produce 1 of the "traditional" Musicman tones (parallel in the Stingray, Series in the Sterling) while an HS will produce 2 (parallel and single coil for the Stingray, series and single coil for the Sterling). Apart from that I've NEVER seen the need for a full coil humbucker in the neck position (with a single coil Musicman pickup there you have more than enough P-ism available). HS Musicmen basically give you 1 P tone, 2 Jazz flavors and 2 Musicman tones. The history of my Sterling5 HS was not that happy indeed, as it sounded thin at the strictly Musicman game (compared to other 2 Stingray5s I own -old single 3 coil ceramic humbucker-), don't know what's up with post-2008 Stingrays and Sterlings but all I've tried sound naturally thinner to me (can be EQed to thicken up, of course). My most likely guess is the redesigned preamps are the culprit. Anyway, I ended up selling that Sterling5 HS and getting both an indo Yamaha BB-615 (P+J) and a MIK Ibby ATK-405 (J+MM) for "non Musicman" sounding 5ers that play and feel similar to my Ray 5ers. Together they costed about half the money I got for the Sterling5 HS. Somebody already suggested 2 pickup ATKs and I can see why, there's LOTS of versatility in them. You have to be selective as some of their necks can be on the chunky side. Still any ATK I've played plays better than any L line G&L. BTW, my problem with G&L is only about the L line. I could use a Kiloton5 or JB5 which come with a good (THIN!) neck profile (in line with what you get in Stingray 5ers) and no nonsense electronics.
