BaggyMan

Dammit getting all nostalgic and bought a Tribute sunburst Jazz... And the video that did it for me...

G & L are the Saab of the guitar industry. Maverick to a certain extent, quirky, historically significant a bit...I love 'em (i own a m2000 and a SB-2). The MFD pcikups alone should have hailed as a classic design Yet, always the stealth brand, with no big name endorsees, always a bit to far off the general path of things. And we'll miss them when they are gone, or bought. Aparently the tariffs have something to overload their costs...conjecture maybe, who can tell these days. Those who knew...knew i guess, just not enough of us. I also owned a Saab..lol

Went to the SireUSA sight and found this... (copyright SIre obviously)

Yeah knew to do that, but neither switch position deactivates a coil..

Played my M6 last night. Certainly garnered postive comment both from sound and visuals. Firstly I went in 'cold', in that i'd literally took it straight to the gig following unboxing. Caveat: I own two dingwalls so pretty much know what to expect. Sits well on the strap, not too heavy. The heritage pre amp is well known, but I am used to the V series applications, so with single coils. This has dual coil humbuckers and on the detent it bassy enough. Wind in some bass and you are dealing with some serious heft to the point of overdrive. I cant see any personal applications for that much bass, but then again i like an articulate sound. Might work for others tho so not a minus. Also its 18v so punchy... The fan is milder than the dingwall, so fairly straightforwards to navigate. Things to look out for: The Neck is excellent. One thing I noticed though was diving for lower register notes on the B, say C or C# i caught my index finger on the nut on the G side a couple of times. Might have been boyish enthusiasm, or hand angle...one thing to watch out for. The passive/active switch is right next to the pickup switches, same orientation, same size. Looks great but when is wanted try out a different config on the bridge pickup during the soundcheck and switched from active to passive instead, and a great big lump of volume disappeared. Much confusion ensued. Might just be a case of getting into the groove with it a bit and remebering that . Although i haven't looked took hard i still havent found a reliable description of the switch function for the pickups. Down is definately series. Coin flip one the middle amd up positions, between single coil and parallel modes.

Yep i'd guess they'd know.

Here you go, just received a M6-5 stringer. Pre amp is the heritage model pretty much one everything they make except the Z3. Bass response is huge, possibly down to the pickup pairing, lots of headroom. 18V Knobs are the ones that appeared when the Z series was launched. Better than pure plastic ones i guess. String spacing is 17 to 17.5mm (best i could measure and guess...dont judge) Stanless steel frets. Three switches. Admittedly I havent looked too hard yet to find out what they do. One is pre amp on/off Other two? series/parallel/single per pickup (three way) as far as i can tell. Info is that readily available except AI generated boll0cks. Scale lengths are: B 35 1/4 E 34 3/4 A 34 1/2 D 33 3/4 G 33 String are ball end at the bridge and clamped by two quite small allen s at the 'stump' (unlike my Cort space 5 which has one larger allen bolt and one smaller per string.) 5 piece neck. Finish feels almost plastic like. not bad, but different.