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Steinberger Club
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Ok, that works... thank you very much Bernd, i'll also throw a stone in your garden (as we ironically say in Switzerland, do the germans too?)!
Ok, that works... thank you very much Bernd, i'll also throw a stone in your garden (as we ironically say in Switzerland, do the germans too?)!
You're welcome. No, we don't use that phrase in Germany, but we understand it
Nice bass score. The bass TT was an interesting idea. The DB or a 5 string bridge seemed a little more practical in the long run, similar to my comparison of a 7 string to my TT2.
5 strings lack tone compared to their 4 string counterparts, and I always found it easy to knock the adjusting wheel on a DB bridge out of whack...
The TT was a great gismo, and sure got me looks wherever I went!
IDK, I've had a lot of 4, 5, and 6 string Peavey Cirrus and some 4 and 5 string Peavey Millennium basses. Never really found that there was much tonal impact with the number of strings when variables are as consistent as possible.
TADDAH... Today is the 30th birthday of the L2/5 # 970
Excerpt of the SteinbergerWorld official Serial-Listing:
Excerpt of the SteinbergerWorld official Serial-Listing:
Glad to join the club, I take number 28.
0001...Number 11
0002...AphekGreg
0003...WalterBush
0004...Palmann
0005...Gleneg61
0006...bungalowbill
0007...Deepwoods
0008...Bornagnhooligan
0009...pacojas
0010...Rozeg
0011...Stacker
0012...pkstone
0013...Sid fang
0014...rd2rk
0015...ThaRoadWarrior
0016...80jazz
0017...jphovercraft
0018...Neo Land
0019...Macrocosmcwh
0020...ChoppyJalepeno
0021...76harvester
0022...dsinvitis
0023...DrDAV14
0024...zulufumk
0025...Be_eM
0026...HeavyDuty
0027...bassclef112
0028...Tjluke
Congratulations
A Google image search for "bass cake" shows primarily this:
but that is closer to what I've been looking for
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Then i'll take the # 29... perhaps we could found an european Steinberger Club meanwhile!
Thank you Bernd... we're pleased!
Thank you Bernd... we're pleased!
Hi & greetings to Rome. One more European here
Thank you very much, and greetings to all Bavaria!
Ciao Tjluke, benvenuto al Steinberger Club, dove si trovano i bassisti acefale... con il cervello dentro dei testi di amplificatore! 
Really great family! Seems like that XQ5 has EMGs and swamp ash body?? How's the sound compared to your L?
I like it too... specially since the XQ5 has a seldom triangle control config!
@Tjluke, please tell us more about the gear!
Ciao Tjluke, benvenuto al Steinberger Club, dove si trovano i bassisti acefale... con il cervello dentro dei testi di amplificatore!
Ciao Bob, effettivamente per fare parte di questo club, abbiamo tutti perso la testa!
I like it too... specially since the XQ5 has a seldom triangle control config!
@Tjluke, please tell us more about the gear!
I'll be very happy to tell you more about my gear.
Let's start from the XQ5: it has swamp ash body, EMG P5 (Reverse P style coils) pickups and HAZ labs active electronics.
Controls are: master volume, pickups blend and stacked treble/bass.
To my knowledge (but I'm not sure about that), the triangle control config was used in early XQ5 models along with EMG P5 pickups.
An another feature of my XQ5 is that the body is painted with nitro.
About the sound, it is not so different from the XL2, it is very clear and punchy and the HAZ Labs equalizer is very good.
About the XL2, I think is one of the last builded by Gibson before production was ceased.
The neck is thinner than the L2 series, it was builded to perfection, the only complaints I made are about the string jaws: two of them suddenly broke at the same time!!!
Luckily for me, a friend of mine is the manager of one of the largest bass store in Italy and he gave me two original jaws
Some time ago I recorded 3 sample for compare the XQ5 and the XL2, for what they are worth...
For each file I recorded in sequence: XQ5 bridge p. - XL2 bridge p. - XQ5 both p. - XL2 both p. - XQ5 neck p. - XL2 neck p.
Active tone of XQ5 are flat.
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