Hi all!
I finally switched to the dark side... I have been playing guitar for 3 years now, but since the musical scene is pretty limited here and I do not want any treble finding a band, I decided to start playing bass
So, today I received my first one: a G&L Tribute L-2000, sunburst, with rosewood fretboard. (Artificial lighting + cheapo camera = bad pic ...)
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600 ... quite a lot of money for a student, but I wanted something I could keep.
I really like all the sounds you can get from it. Furthermore, the onboard preamp is really silent.
It came already in tune and pretty well set up from the distributor. I just had to loosen the truss rod in order to have a bit more relief (I tend to play really hard ...). There is still some fret buzz, but I guess it'll disappear when the strings will become used.
The only thing which makes me wonder is that the low strings (mostly the E) sustain less than the other 2 ... the E fades away after roughly 10 secs, whereas the G can go on for days. I wonder if this is normal, not that I need that much sustain though.
Now I'll have to find a good amp, but since I'll be playing at home for a while (the time to develop some skills), I think I'll build a preamplifier first. I'll quickly throw a Flipster together ( http://runoffgroove.com/flipster.html ), maybe the one from Albert Kreuzer too ( Invalid Link Removed ), but I'm open to any other suggestions
Cheers,
Dan
I finally switched to the dark side... I have been playing guitar for 3 years now, but since the musical scene is pretty limited here and I do not want any treble finding a band, I decided to start playing bass
So, today I received my first one: a G&L Tribute L-2000, sunburst, with rosewood fretboard. (Artificial lighting + cheapo camera = bad pic ...)
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
600 ... quite a lot of money for a student, but I wanted something I could keep.
I really like all the sounds you can get from it. Furthermore, the onboard preamp is really silent.
It came already in tune and pretty well set up from the distributor. I just had to loosen the truss rod in order to have a bit more relief (I tend to play really hard ...). There is still some fret buzz, but I guess it'll disappear when the strings will become used.
The only thing which makes me wonder is that the low strings (mostly the E) sustain less than the other 2 ... the E fades away after roughly 10 secs, whereas the G can go on for days. I wonder if this is normal, not that I need that much sustain though.
Now I'll have to find a good amp, but since I'll be playing at home for a while (the time to develop some skills), I think I'll build a preamplifier first. I'll quickly throw a Flipster together ( http://runoffgroove.com/flipster.html ), maybe the one from Albert Kreuzer too ( Invalid Link Removed ), but I'm open to any other suggestions
Cheers,
Dan
