Nice find.
I still have not played the Tribute L-2000 yet, but I love the CFL L-1000.
AFAIK, the components and electronics are the same in the tribute and CFL model, just one is mass produced outside the USA and the other is produced in Fullerton California.
There are some fit and finish differences, bot overall, that should be a fantastic bass.
Congratulations.
I don’t think you are the first verified G&L owner on the forum, but you are in a small club I believe.
I hope to get there one day.
Al @Al1885 probably has one, and I think I recall a few others, not sure how active the members are though.
My best bass is a Tribute L-2000 and I have GHS flat wounds on it and I love it. Personally I really don’t like the sound of that bass with rounds, I didn’t even like Rotosound flat wounds on it. But then I really like vintage sound and dislike the “metallic” sound. (BTW, I only have 3 basses and I’m selling one.)
nice.
I don’t really like flats tho. And it is not the sound, it is just the way the feel under my fingers.
I was at that music shop with the G&L’s a few weeks back, and they had a Tribute Fallout (Full sized bass, with short scale frets and bridge placement) and a Jazz Bass, and a G&L CFL L-1000, which I loved.
The Fallout was strange right out of the gate, because,
1, Your arm is at full stretch but the neck is fretted with SS spacing
2, The bridge and pick up are pushed further up the body towards the neck
and
3 - It had flats on it
It was certainly unexpected, you don’t often pull a brand new bass off the wall at a music store and find it strung with flats.
Anyway, one day maybe I will get used to flats, but I only have one bass strung and just have not liked it enough to string the others with flats. Its not only that I don’t like it enough, it is almost that I dislike them a little bit. Its a personal preference and choice based on each players comfort and musical goals really.
Schecter stiletto custom 4.
I couldn’t just eyeball it. I was offered an opportunity to work a couple weeks of huge overtime on a shutdown, so the money happened to arrive.
What’s really cool is I get to give my Ibanez es300 to my grandson so he gets a fine starter instrument.
I’m just a beginner. But man, this thing is great.
Thank you! That was straight from my “I have a dream” section.
I’ve only been playing since mid-may of this year, so I’m not even able to fully appreciate it yet. But I practice hard and I try my ass off, because I want to play well enough to merit a great instrument.
What you write about the Fallout Bass is interesting. I have only seen it in pictures and I like it but your comments are really worth keeping in mind. I like SS but I have never played one. And yes, a bass with flats at a store? Unusual.
Those differences in positions of frets and pickups keeps amazing me. My other bass is a Squire CV50s P-bass. I really like the sound of it with rounds and flats but it took me a while to get used to “find” the pickup because of the position. I’m even working on a “no-mod” thumb rest for it (I’m an industrial designer and jewelry designer) because I keeps placing my hand in the wrong place to rest my thumb. (Your comments on that bass would be interesting. So far I haven’t found threads on it.)
Anyway, my goal is to learn to play first before coming to conclusions and consequently vaccinate myself against GAS. But I’m proud that throughout the changes in basses I have made I have learned a lot about setup and maintenance since none of them have been new.
I have no intention of getting it but it caught my attention since I play a similar one and Sting is one of my favorites. I know it may be a marketing thing with “retro” but it is in a way like a classic VW Beetle. Dependable and noisy. (I drove the last model with a carburator for 11 years).
