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It might have been me you mentioned, L2k, passive, active, active with treble boost, 2 x mfd pups, front, both or back and a series parallel switch, countoured body, rays do too but mines a slab body, ray vol, bass n treble, flat battery no bass, or the later more eq model, I like the fact theres a g&l Issue with bassists cos then the rest of us get a bargain. as for pup comparisons, theres nowt weak about the g&l mfd in comparison to the ray pup whatsoever, plus the way leo did the reverse log bass pot and treble bleed wiring means theres some amazing sounds in an L2k you wont find in a ray.

I would be more concerned about the body wood, a cheap bass could be ply, basswood, mdf or in the case of my trib l2k Im restoring swamp ash, which was a result. thats where alot of the tone comes from, ultimately the bridge is screwed into the body and decent bridge saddles are a must. IMO.

I own a L2500 and wont sell it until I need retirement home money or firewood, Im not a big 5 player but its a beautiful bass.

I have 2 gk 12 neos, one went pop and due to the crap and overpriced nonsense from gk and tohmann I opted for a celestion 300x neo, great speaker, affordable and you cant tell it apart from the twice price gk eminence. it was 74 quid.

Hi Just checked the diary we are free on july 16th and are on scott jordan and alive, shoot me a pm if you want to pass it along, thanks, regards, Nigel.

The essex massive..................Hi from Hadleigh, just up the A13 from the aforementioned ...Benfleet, my spiritual home.

Must need to pay his tax return...

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='711285' date='Jan 13 2010, 02:51 PM']I wonder where all the Fenders and MMs built in the 60s (not MM, obviously) and 70s have gone? Has somebody been using them for firewood?[/quote] So many attics, so many spaces in spare rooms and under beds, it keeps me awake at night...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmDZ5JiLf0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmDZ5JiLf0[/url] Enjoy, I did, its a good look at the world of bass playing.

MFD, magnetic field design, its those big sweet humbuckers with adjustable pole pieces. like this one in my climax.

This is the headstock of the first L2K i got of e bay, you either dig that design or hate it....or grow to love it !

.....oooh, if the colour was right, you dont mind the headstock, the neck was right and the weight was right.....Yes ! but try first, there are better sounds in the MFD pups than a ray, plus the passive side is sweet too.

played rays since I was 19, im 51 now, went across to the dark side with g&l around 10 years ago, still have my 1st 78 ray, 1 other and a sabre, you get the g&l bug and then you understand it all, leos finest hour and best kept secret, theres no turning back....

[url="http://www.ggjaguar.com/l-2000e.htm"]http://www.ggjaguar.com/l-2000e.htm[/url] theres plenty of other spec here too. I did put this on the other thread for the L1500 but you may have missed it. As an after though to noelk27s thoughts on the chunkyness of them, ive a BABP L1000 reissue from this yesr, has the #8 neck and weighs in around 9.5 lbs, ive a few early wunkays and L2ks and apart from the body woods changing the weight of the overall instrument, I never feel theres a great deal of difference between them, but Im never really sure about the finer points, although I have a lawsuit headstock SB2 and I swear the neck is in every way profile wise the same as my ray.

Back to the topic...heres a bit of spec for the 2000e [url="http://www.ggjaguar.com/l-2000e.htm"]http://www.ggjaguar.com/l-2000e.htm[/url]

#8 necks are as close to a jazz neck, I love them, great profile, fast and well balanced.

[quote name='Jigster' post='689727' date='Dec 20 2009, 01:41 PM']ah, some G&L peeps - anyone got anything to say about the G&L L2000 series E models - have seen one from early 80's f/s[/quote] The front loader as the cousins from across the pond call 'em with the lawsuit headstock........ I WANT ONE.

the wunkay is passive, the pup is in the p bass position, nearer the neck but it has the legendary OMG setting on the switch. the L1K is active or with treble boost or passive has series parallel switch and the pup is in the 'sweet spot' the same as the g&l climax and pretty close to a ray. however leos wiring makes for interesting tone controls depending on how you roll the treble back a little to change the shelving or roll the bass up to basically loosen fillings.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='683997' date='Dec 14 2009, 02:01 PM']TBH I don't think I've ever practised a scale in my life. Practice for me means working out basslines for new songs (by listening to the original recording for covers or by working out the line I can hear in my head for originals) and making sure that I can still play all the other songs in the set from memory. If there's something new that I don't have the dexterity to play yet I find the best way is 10-15 minutes every day for a week or so generally gets my fingers doing the right thing.[/quote] Phew, thought it was just me, however I did have all my scales and arpeggios knocked into me as a kid.

C is only the first note of the C scale, on a piano the white notes, all tones or whole notes, no sharps or flats. thats all...I think. A could be first if you work from A.