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NEW G&L MATADOR Double P Pickup Bass


Ben Jamin

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Anyone checked out the new custom shop G&L model?

Double split pick-ups with series/parallel on the neck and vintage G&L style

Seems like a neat set of controls to me - plenty of different tones and not too much fuss over loads of switches/knobs

First saw them on their Instagram, but there's also a couple of videos up now:

 

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I think I absolutely need one of these Matador to go along with my El Toro...

Pun aside, seems like a good idea, there's not enough double Ps and it's a good take on the PJ concept, often doomed by J weakness...

 

Still waiting for a Toro reissue though...

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13 hours ago, ped said:

The shape looks a bit awkward/big bottomed to me, could be the angle

I think it's their trad. G&L shape. I see it as a happy middle ground between a Precision and a BB! Tastefully voluptuous.

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20 hours ago, gary mac said:

Love G&L basses and guitars. Good to see that shape of headstock:friends:

I’d like one of their J basses with that headstock shape...the only thing putting me off any G&L ever. Including and ASAT I fell in love with but couldn’t get over that tin opener thing.

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I expect it's historic - way back when, if you wanted a bass with one pickup, you bought a Precision. If you wanted one with two pickups, you bought a Jazz. I don't actually know when the first PJ basses were produced commercially, but I could imagine them being easy for Fender to market as a halfway house between a Precision and a Jazz.

Besides, Leo was nothing if not practical, and they would already have a sound design for the Jazz bridge pickup.  Typically, the bridge pickups have slightly higher impedance than the neck pickups in Jazz basses; they may have anticipated a certain amount of R&D cost in getting the impedance right on a P-pickup for the bridge position.

 

(Please note that the above is all speculative and may well be complete cobblers)

 

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1 hour ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

I expect it's historic - way back when, if you wanted a bass with one pickup, you bought a Precision. If you wanted one with two pickups, you bought a Jazz. I don't actually know when the first PJ basses were produced commercially, but I could imagine them being easy for Fender to market as a halfway house between a Precision and a Jazz.

Besides, Leo was nothing if not practical, and they would already have a sound design for the Jazz bridge pickup.  Typically, the bridge pickups have slightly higher impedance than the neck pickups in Jazz basses; they may have anticipated a certain amount of R&D cost in getting the impedance right on a P-pickup for the bridge position.

 

(Please note that the above is all speculative and may well be complete cobblers)

 

Fender dabbled early 80s with the Elite II basses that we’re very good, and decent electronics, but often were pretty heavy. Similar time as their Elite starts came out that wee also special but an absolute bugger to play.

Ultimately the vast majority of people have conservative tastes and hence they didn’t take off.

G&L P pick ups tend to be pretty good (or they were) and a lot better than their MFD buckers.

Getting 2 split coils to match won’t take a lot of R&D

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6 minutes ago, Cuzzie said:

@bigsmokebass tell him not to get me started on that one......🤦🏾‍♂️

It would surely just be an L2000 but maybe a different pre-amp or not then?

You won’t change my opinion, though mine is limited to the P pickup in an SB1. Fantastic pickup. 

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