Well, I've learned to control the tone and volume of the L2500 and it does sound rather good through an Ashdown ABM600 and an Ampeg 810.
However, I'm still confused by having five strings - I'll well away, playing fine for ages, when I suddenly find myself either fretting the wrong string or plucking the wrong string, or sometimes both.
Then I'm slow to get started again due to a state of confusion. It's as though I've been playing four string for so long both my muscle memory and my mental memory grind to a halt when suddenly confronted with the fifth string. Strangely, I experience the confusion of the fifth string in two ways. There's an extra string on the bottom (obviously!) but somehow there's an extra string 'in the middle' when there should not be a 'middle' string at all.
Despite these issues I'm very pleased with the L2500 except for one thing and that's the slightly narrow string spacing - which I guess may be a factor in me plucking the wrong string sometimes. So I've been half thinking I might try to trade it for a Lakland 55-02 or for an Fender American Standard Precision V, both of which have a .75 string spacing at the bridge, I believe.
Or I might just stick to four string as most of the time I'm not playing any of the extra five notes that are available anyway!
BTW, the L2500 weighs 10lbs exactly - am I right to think that's on the light side for a five string?
