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The Mike Lull Club Part 3
- Thread starter Ron Plichta
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- Feb 3, 2005
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- Endorsing artist: Bergantino Audio Systems and GHS Strings
Congrats! As a T4 owner, I'd love to hear one of the tb pickup equipped P/J basses.
Roll call...
Lull M4V/M5V players? Specifically, ash/maple? Just wanted to get a snapshot of some of you folks who've owned and gigged them a bunch.
Lull M4V/M5V players? Specifically, ash/maple? Just wanted to get a snapshot of some of you folks who've owned and gigged them a bunch.
No carpet shots yet, but specs are Seymour singles, Bart 3-band, 34" scale, one-piece solid ash body, maple board, 8.2 pounds. Compares to my other J "jewel" VERY favorably. NAMM acquisition... totally not at all interested in shopping this year, but picked this thing up and couldn't hand over the cash fast enough. I couldn't believe it hadn't sold already. Maybe because it was an "oddball" as a 34" scale 5, which is not his norm (but exactly what I'd order from him anyway).You know I am. You've gigged itnow let's see some pictures of your lull!
My only gripes are it has a flat blade adjuster for the truss rod (which I really don't like, but can live with, if it can't be changed), and there's no passive tone control (which I'm trying to figure out).
Wow...I don't think I've ever seen ash/maple work so well. Is the maple tinted, or just dark? Very nice!
No carpet shots yet, but specs are Seymour singles, Bart 3-band, 34" scale, one-piece solid ash body, maple board, 8.2 pounds. Compares to my other J "jewel" VERY favorably. NAMM acquisition... totally not at all interested in shopping this year, but picked this thing up and couldn't hand over the cash fast enough. I couldn't believe it hadn't sold already. Maybe because it was an "oddball" as a 34" scale 5, which is not his norm (but exactly what I'd order from him anyway).
My only gripes are it has a flat blade adjuster for the truss rod (which I really don't like, but can live with, if it can't be changed), and there's no passive tone control (which I'm trying to figure out).
How does the B string sound on the 34" scale? As good as Sadowsky and the like?
Nice one Vic. Ya, I typically don't see passive tone controls on Bart or Aguilar equipped preamps. I could probably get by on the Bart but Aguilar could benefit IMO. No worries though, mine has the nordy with ptc.
No carpet shots yet, but specs are Seymour singles, Bart 3-band, 34" scale, one-piece solid ash body, maple board, 8.2 pounds. Compares to my other J "jewel" VERY favorably. NAMM acquisition... totally not at all interested in shopping this year, but picked this thing up and couldn't hand over the cash fast enough. I couldn't believe it hadn't sold already. Maybe because it was an "oddball" as a 34" scale 5, which is not his norm (but exactly what I'd order from him anyway).
My only gripes are it has a flat blade adjuster for the truss rod (which I really don't like, but can live with, if it can't be changed), and there's no passive tone control (which I'm trying to figure out).
Very nice! Both of my Lull's are ash. You could have Mike put a mid toggle in that would make room for a Passive tone control.
Good question... I'd have to kinda' compare it to some other stuff, but it may have some tint to it.
Yes!
I've seen passive on both. It's really a no-brainer to do, because it's not part of the preamp at all. I think the main issue is with the three band preamp, you run out of holes pretty quick in a 3-4 hole config, and doing a vintage tone as part of a stack may require hard to find parts.
The knob is already push/pull. My thing is, I rarely really need to mess with mids on a J, so I could even see literally hard-wiring it "flat" and just putting a tone control in that hole instead.
I have other ideas as well, but some might require hard to find pots, so I'm not sure if I wanna' get into that or not.
Nice bass, but strange that a luthier would make a J without a passive tone control. That would be a deal killer for me.
Regarding the 'slot' neck adjustment, a heavy duty curved end screwdriver totally eliminates that issue, and if you find a heavy duty one with a very short neck shank (they have them on Amazon, and probably in most auto supply stores), it actually can work better than more 'modern' executions.
Well, it's a trivial matter to me to make sure it gets one someday, so all I was mainly concerned about (and impressed with) was how great of a J bass the bass itself is. So definitely not a deal killer at all for me. I never worry about minor electronic stuff... that's tinkertoys to me, and I actually enjoy messing with it a little. In the mean time, even though it doesn't do the same thing, I'm ok with cutting the treble control for now, and not using passive mode as much until I have the tone control present.
I have one. Like I said, I can live with it, I just don't like it as much.
This ain't my first rodeo, of course.
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