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    Yes, Fender has a long history of acquiring brands and killing them off because they only wanted to gain certain expertise. Not as bad as Gibson, thank heavens, but their track record is not good. I truly hope G&L will live on and will have their legacy (no pun intended) preserved though. I think they're a wonderful brand with their own identity and great instruments.
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    Famous last words
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    That's because they're essentially a passive bass in the first place. The EQ is fully passive and cut-only. The only active bit in the L2K electronics is the boost circuit. They're a bit of an oddity in that sense. Other active basses usually have active tone controls that also boost certain frequencies, and which can be bypassed. Some add active pickups to that package which have a preamp built into the pickup itself that needs power at all times to function.
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    I've been considering selling my Status S2 Classic 4-string because I only ever play my 5-string ever since adding that to the herd, but I'm still undecided. It would not be an easy bass to replace if I ever come to regret it. And with the whole B-word stuff it would end up more expensive too. I need to buy another car and need to free up some funds, but it's hard to decide what I want to let go.
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    That would date it to February 1981 then The grain is amazing because you're not seeing the mahogany but the layer of ash wood that's glued to the top and the back
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    Looks spectacular! Great top, and a wonderful burst. I love the Burstbuckers, I have a Burstbucker #1 and #2 in my Tokai ES-60 and it sounds great. I also love 10's more on a 24.75" scale. My Tokai has 11's on it currently, but I have 10's on my Cort MGM-1. Still in doubt about what suits my Jaguar (24") best. I have 10's on it currently, would like to try 11's but would need to do some work on the nut and I'm really not eager to.
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    Your pic would do great in this thread. What a lovely pair!
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    *ahem* It's the one current G&L headstock I don't like the look of though. It's blobby, wonky, and the way the G tuner is positioned just feels like an afterthought. In the past there have been far worse offenses, like the headstocks (and everything else, really) on the Interceptor guitars and basses.
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    This thread and the posts over on Reddit inspired me to pick up my ASAT Special again last night after neglecting it for some time, and it was fun. It's such a lovely guitar, and the Jumbo MFD pickups are wonderful. Loud, defined, with more low end and brightness than any other single coil guitar I own, but they clean up beautifully when turning down the volume control. And thanks to the treble bleed the character stays intact when turning it down. Their electronics really are their forte. I sold an ASAT Special once and regretted it for years, I won't make that mistake twice!
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    For the minor sum of only 2500 GBP you can be the owner of that lush Ibanez MC924 in the for sale section
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    This is painfully accurate :') They like to present themselves as innovative, when all their innovations date back to the 1980s or earlier and they haven't kept on innovating since- unless you count scrapping Leo's fairly unique Bi-cut neck with single-action truss rod in 2006, and replacing it with a more conventional double-action truss rod routed below the fingerboard, as on most modern guitars, and switching to a whopping FOUR neck bolts instead of three, and six on some basses. I love G&L, one of my guitars dearest to me is an American ASAT Special (one of the earliest with 4-bolt neck, but still with the bi-cut neck) and I've owned a few others in the past (another ASAT Special, a Legacy Special and an SB-2, all 3-bolts) and all of them were wonderful. I would hate to see the brand disappear.
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    That's absolutely stunning, but priced to keep I'm afraid! I've owned a few of these (and still have one from 1983) and they cost me nowhere near this. This looks to be a little older than 1983 too, as in 1982 the series saw a major redesign where it got a more angular body with beveled edges (of solid ash, instead of ash facings on mahogany), a thinner neck with narrower nut width, and PJ pickups in soapbar casings, and a new preamp with a different control layout that abandoned the pickup selector switch in favor of a pan pot, and removed the adjustable preamp gain from the front of the bass. Yours is more likely to be a 1981 or early 1982 model. I'm curious about the serial number, that would help date it The letter at the beginning marks the month, and the first two numbers mark the year of production. The one I have left is L83xxxx, which dates it to December 1983.
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    About time.

    LeftyJ replied to Rayman's topic in Bass Guitars

    Seconded!
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    Apparently this has happened several times before and they got through it in the end. I hope they'll live through this too! Would hate to see them go. They're owned by BBE, who don't exactly appear to be very relevant anymore as a company. Their Sonic Maximizer pedals, rack units and plugins were succesful for a while and they made some cool preamps in the past, but when you visit their site now it still says "2016" at the bottom and the button that should lead to their Products page is very much dead. Not a good sign. Their website for their plugins is more up-to-date though (2025).
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    Status Graphite uses a very similar (if not the same) jack socket, and sells them in their online store at 3 GBP. Their site doesn't allow hotlinking because it uses frames, but when you go to their online shop section, under "Spare parts", click the "Jack sockets etc" button and scroll nearly all the way down.
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    Agreed, the price of a Nordymute is just silly for what it is. And still I bought two I've got one with 19mm spacing and one with 17mm spacing. I agree a triangular shape would have been massively better! I put mine on at an angle for that reason, but then it's not very firmly attached. They're a ton of fun though!
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    Interesting, I'm curious about this! Doesn't look very practical, in that it needs to be woven in, alternating over and under the strings so it's not something you place onto your bass on the fly like say a Nordymute. But it does look like a nice and simple concept that shouldn't be too expensive. Long & McQuade lists it for 7.99 Canadian dollars! And there's a guitar version too, that comes in a set of 3 (in 3 different widths for varying degrees of muting) for 7.99 as well. Not sure why the bass version costs the same as a set of 3 guitar mutes though.
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    Yep, the Custom Shop used to have three levels around 2000. New Old Stock, Closet Classic and Relic. They've added levels since (Journeyman and Heavy Relic).
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    Not sure how that's an "unexpected" bass player. He totally looks like one of us
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    Now I'm confused. Is this operation out of Poland the temporary one to supply their luthier / business customers while they're looking for a new suppliuer, or is there genuinely a new Polish operation that's here to stay? It sounds like they're currently only supplying to guitar manufacturers, but will restart sales to private customers again in October.
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    Yes, Sandberg has made several of these in the early 00's. Most I've seen had the Basic Ken Taylor electronics package (2 MM humbuckers, active 3-band) and many had a flamed maple top. I missed out on a lefty 5-string in trans blackburst a few years ago. I think they look tremendously cool!
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    Pianists: "Hold my beer"
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    Funny thing: many grunge and indie guitarists of that time started playing Fenders because they were available cheaply. Especially their offset models (Jazzmaster, Jaguar, Mustang) were available at pawn shops all over the US for silly money because they were either deemed too finnicky / complex or silly 24" student guitars that no serious player would ever want to own. Fender USA had stopped building them in 1980 by lack of demand, but it's these artists that set off the Fender offset craze, first fuelled by Fender Japan who started producing them again in the late 1980s and since the late 90s there are many US and MIM models too. Might be the same with the basses: came back in style because influential bands could get their hands on them cheaply when they started out.
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    Oh, that makes sense. FTFY. There's no way a store that large writes such an epic saga for every product they sell
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