The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Other Bass Brands => Topic started by: 4stringer77 on October 16, 2012, 06:06:36 AM
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Two tone 'burst over alder body with flame maple cap. #5 quartersawn satin neck. #5 = 1-3/4" wide at nut, Vintage C profile with 7.5" fingerboard radius. Great powerful mfd pick up that can make pick playing sound godly. This is a tight piece of bass!
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I like that finish and wood cap a lot!
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very nice.
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Finally some G&L love!
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That's a beautiful and (potentially) deadly weapon there. ;) That split MFD may be the most powerful precision pickup on earth.
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I almost got an SB-2 a few years back. Wickedly aggressive and powerful tone. I do like G&L. I also love the bridge. When I had my L-1000, I lost a saddle screw and never lost tune. I ended up finding the screw by going back to the club the next morning.
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The pickups in my LB-100 are really strong. It's the loudest bass I own.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/DSC05656a.jpg)
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That's one gorgeous bass. I'm a HUGE G&L fan, but I just realized both of mine are fivers: an L2500 I bought new, which G&L actually featured on their website and in print ads for a few years (ironically, I have no pics) and an L5500 in the transparent green that most shipped with: it's a G&L with EMG's as stock, and weighs about 12-14 lbs. I love them both.
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Dennis, if you think your LB100 is loud you wouldn't believe the nuclear output of the mfd in the SB1. I had to lower the pickup, got TI Infeld superalloys that have a sound which works well with the mfd, and I'm going to add a bunch of shielding in pickup and control cavaties. Was thinking about having Tone Guard make me a gold or black anodized aluminum pg. They want me to send them my guard to make an exact scan, a process they want around $150 for and that dosen't include the cost of the guard at around $89, so kind of a lot to spend on a pg. Does your LB100 have an adjustable pole piece gotoh or is it the Kent Armstrong?
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Dennis, if you think your LB100 is loud you wouldn't believe the nuclear output of the mfd in the SB1. I had to lower the pickup, got TI Infeld superalloys that have a sound which works well with the mfd, and I'm going to add a bunch of shielding in pickup and control cavaties. Was thinking about having Tone Guard make me a gold or black anodized aluminum pg. They want me to send them my guard to make an exact scan, a process they want around $150 for and that dosen't include the cost of the guard at around $89, so kind of a lot to spend on a pg. Does your LB100 have an adjustable pole piece gotoh or is it the Kent Armstrong?
You might want to buy some PG material from Stew-Mac and a PG router bit...wouldn't work on metal, but you could make yourself a bunch of PGs for less $.
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Got my bass back from the shop with Infeld Superalloys on and it sounds mighty fine. Turns out the extra shielding may not have been necessary since my tech found a bad ground wire connection but I figure it's good to have either way. This bass with these strings is truly a marriage made in heaven to my ears! ;D
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Ooohhhhh. More G&L's! I have an SB-1, but it's the old style. This is the only photo I've got, and it may not be too easy to see. Favorite 50's P-bass I've ever played!
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Ooohhhhh. More G&L's! I have an SB-1, but it's the old style. This is the only photo I've got, and it may not be too easy to see. Favorite 50's P-bass I've ever played!
Mike! Welcome aboard!
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Hey Rex Is that SB1 the same bass in your avatar pic? How'd it get green? blue nitro shade change or refin? and welcome.
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Thanks yall! Nah, the avatar pic is one of my L-1000s. The SB-1 is actually red. You can see it in my band's newish video. I don't know if this will link or not, because I'm a luddite, but here's a try! We made the video about a year and a half after making the record, and I've changed the way I play the song, so please excuse my un-synced right hand. The recording was on the L-2000 that was stolen along with Denis' Jerry Jones, but was recovered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QW35LwwCc
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Cool video!
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Nice one. Solid playing. That red bass really pops and fits in with band well. Neat guitars, is one of them a vox?
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Thanks for the kind words ya'll! Those guitars are both Hallmarks actually. The red one is a stradette and the gold with a white pickguard is a sweptwing. I've got 2 of the sweptwing basses, which are pretty cool. Tiny little neck and crazy neckdive, but really punchy, especially for a shortscale. I hadn't played them in a while, but have recently broken them back out, mostly thanks to the hot girl in Man or Astroman? playing her swept wings...
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...mostly thanks to the hot girl in Man or Astroman? playing her swept wings...
Amen to that! She was hot AND tore that guitar up.