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The Mike Lull Club Part 2

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CaptainWally said:
If you were to put brand new strings on both basses, and run the M5V in passive mode, would they be equally snappy?

Might be a good experiment before you going digging around in cavities.
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Did that experiment and the V5 is still snappier. It has an ash body/maple neck vs. the M5V's alder/rosewood setup.

I'm leaning more towards selling the M5V and getting an Audere drop-in preamp for the V5. That way, nothing on the body is altered in case i want to go back to passive. The proceeds from the sale will be saved until I get enough cash to order my T5.
 
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Ron Plichta said:
Did that experiment and the V5 is still snappier. It has an ash body/maple neck vs. the M5V's alder/rosewood setup.

I'm leaning more towards selling the M5V and getting an Audere drop-in preamp for the V5. That way, nothing on the body is altered in case i want to go back to passive. The proceeds from the sale will be saved until I get enough cash to order my T5.
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I prefer ash/maple myself. Dude, you've answered your own question! :-)

T5! T5!
 
#330
Quick update on my dreamsicle/Giants bass...

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It's back in the House of Lull for another modification....this time involving a router. :eek: Mike is installing a P pickup in the neck position, but I'll retain the option to go back to the JJ config, with quick-connects on both the new P and old J pickups, and of course a new P pick guard to go with the current one. I'm excited.
 
#332
VroomVroom said:
Quick update on my dreamsicle/Giants bass...

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It's back in the House of Lull for another modification....this time involving a router. :eek: Mike is installing a P pickup in the neck position, but I'll retain the option to go back to the JJ config, with quick-connects on both the new P and old J pickups, and of course a new P pick guard to go with the current one. I'm excited.
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Smart with the quick-connects. options are always good. Enjoy the new beefy P! This may become your new favorite.
 
#335
CaptainWally said:
Yes. I've played it. It's excellent.
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Congratulations to the buyer of this bass! I played it twice when I was in San Diego a while back but just could not pull the trigger as I had just recently purchased a Roscoe 3005 and didn't know how to justify buying yet another fine instrument that exceeds my skill level by so much so quickly. After a while I couldn't stand it anymore and decided to just go ahead and do it, only to discover that it had been sold a couple of hours before... I think its a fantastic instrument and hope it works out for you... however if it doesn't you should let me know first!
 
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mglabrie said:
Congratulations to the buyer of this bass! I played it twice when I was in San Diego a while back but just could not pull the trigger as I had just recently purchased a Roscoe 3005 and didn't know how to justify buying yet another fine instrument that exceeds my skill level by so much so quickly. After a while I couldn't stand it anymore and decided to just go ahead and do it, only to discover that it had been sold a couple of hours before... I think its a fantastic instrument and hope it works out for you... however if it doesn't you should let me know first!
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Ha, this is funny. I had been in talks with bass sandiego on this as well and didn't pull the trigger. The day I was going to, it was gone. I told bass san diego to pass along my info to the new owner, so step to the back of the line;)
 
#337
Saluki said:
Ha, this is funny. I had been in talks with bass sandiego on this as well and didn't pull the trigger. The day I was going to, it was gone. I told bass san diego to pass along my info to the new owner, so step to the back of the line;)
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I had made a low ball offer a couple of weeks before as well, when I was still vacillating about it... does that move me up the que? Either way Bassray I think Saluki and I would agree on a ruling that from now forward you must refer to your Lull as "the one that almost wasn"t"
 
#338
Saluki said:
In the market for a used MV5 if any of you are thinking of letting your Lull go.
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I have a MV5 in ash/rosewood that I wouldn't mind selling to fund a new speaker cab setup. PM me if you're interested. I have both the Lull softshell and hardshell case. It currently has Bart pickups with an Aguilar OBP-3, but I still have the Seymour Duncan SC's that came originally in it.
 
#339
Saluki said:
Ha, this is funny. I had been in talks with bass sandiego on this as well and didn't pull the trigger. The day I was going to, it was gone. I told bass san diego to pass along my info to the new owner, so step to the back of the line;)
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lol, actually bass san diego didn't tell me your info, but i have a feeling, i have to post this awesome bass on TB to share my exaltation.:hyper:
 
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