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Yes I think so. So maybe not so great then. But I don’t think that would be too bad for a set of original spec and material copies. Anything Wal is definitely a sellers market at the moment!

Tbh that doesn’t seem like a bad price for a set (assuming four?) if they’re decent.

I’ve never found a PJ that does a perfect J sound. Mind you not all Js do it either 😆

Always - more notes = more fun + more mistakes

Very difficult to tell given the difference in player and so on but that sounds quite different to my bass I think. Certainly the front pickup P bass impression sounds like it loses something of the way a P bass blooms each note, for want of a better expression. I used mine yesterday at a band practice and was super happy with how it sounded in the mix - the P sounded exactly like the SB1 with rounds, I think - and fully open in parallel the slap sound was full, punchy and clear - the keyboard player said it sounded like my Vigier, totally unprompted... I found myself playing over the back pickup into my old FX25 quite a lot which was bang on. Before our practice we had a few hours to check out the Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield. I had my bass on my back so I reckon I have the only G&L that's ever been in a fire engine, although I might be wrong

For me the straps are usually the weak point. Sometimes the straps ‘meet’ at the place where they’re stitched to the bag which, when worn, feels like you’re being throttled. These look nicely spaced.

Try now - I had the 'force sidebar to show' ticked

Congrats, that’s a beauty. Recent L2000 convert here!! You’ve summed up the sound very well, I’d add more snap than a jazz. I’ve never seen a new one in the flesh. It looks like they’ve slimmed the waist a bit. The grain on this one is lovely 😊

Oi. No religion.

It happens very rarely on BC but occasionally we do get untrustworthy sellers. They’re quickly identified but unfortunately sometimes people get caught out along the way. Make sure you stick to PayPal and never F&F. Cheers ped

Hi folks I’ve turned this feature off for the time being as it wasn’t behaving properly. Watch this space as I’m going to be fiddling with it in due course. Thanks

Hi mate was it this one? I came across it recently as a recent new owner of an L2000

They look like stomach lining

That’s good to hear!! Yes the ore really does require careful consideration and it behaves very differently to what people are generally used to. I’d really like to try one of the new models and see how it differs. You’ve got a great matching pair there.

Yes I’ve turned off that ‘no adverts for supporting members’ thing today for a little while as it wasn’t working as I expected. More info as it happens!

By the way, you're more than welcome to pop over any time to have a go!

I'll have to try a newer one to see what it sounds like, but I'm absolutely over the moon with the sound and feel of this bass. It's my 27th bass and although I'm in the honeymoon period arguably, it really feels both hugely flexible and a perfect mixture of everything I've loved about my favourite basses up until now.

Here you go - point 5 and 6 https://www.basschat.co.uk/faq/

I think any of the mods are fairly easy to be honest (not for me to do personally, you understand) but I don't know if it would sound any good like that. The nice thing about the OMG mode is that you get the frontal bass from the side of the pickup which you can cut and adjust to taste, a bit like adding too much chip spice to your chips and shaking the chips over a sink to remove the granules to taste, or something

AH yes the bit about the slot angle changing the tone? I think I can detect a difference depending on the angle of the hex hole too 🤣

I've even read that some people alter the height of the individual poles, or even remove them entirely, to get even more sounds!!

Haha thanks, but what about GMO mode (OMG but with coils reversed)

Haven’t really played with that as much yet. I think OMG mode brings it into MM territory as opposed to rear pickup jazz bass snarl, which is the opposite of what I imagined would be the case.

Agreed. The front coil providing the bass gives the bass response a very P bass sort of feel, as opposed to boosting a frequency on an EQ

I think so, yes - you can snip the capacitor away and have normal single mode (or just turn down the bass which may yield a similar result). The nice thing about OMG mode is that the bass comes from the front coil and treble from the back, mimicking the split P pickup, and sounding pretty much the same IMO. Yes, weird that they don't use the same nomenclature for that mode on the L2Ke - maybe it is different... I think a lot of confusion stems from the changes made in early versions, and the mis naming of various switches to 'bass boost' for example, describing the resulting sound as opposed to the actual function. Kind of makes sense in the wider context but bass players read that and think it's an actual boost pre. Once you work it out, it's terrifically user friendly and great sounding. I never liked cutting treble pot on a 3 band EQ for example, but a passive tone control has a more musical response, which you don't lose on this bass.