Welcome to
I am please to announce that a new bassesbyleo.com forum for G&L basses is up and ready for you to use. This forum has been created to provide a place for G&L bass owners to congregate and discuss their instruments. It will start out small and be focused on G&L basses. Any expansion will be slow and well thought out.
Questions emailed to me regarding G&L bass support or bass questions in general will be referred to the forum. If you have questions about G&L basses and bass gear, please join the forum and ask there. The forum is designed as a public place for G&L players to congregate and share knowledge. There may be times when it becomes necessary to take a subject private, and I will make that determination on an individual basis.
You can find the new forum right here. Have fun!
I would like to thank Dave McLaren of BBE/G&L for his support and blessing of this little venture, as well as Craig & Dean of GuitarsByLeo - the original G&L message board and home of The Registry.
Internets Stuff (It's a series of tubes!)
Updated 1/18/2011, I have been forced to block (403) IP netblocks from two countries in the western Pacific region and one rather large eastern European country. If / when the spamming and other unsavory activity emanating from those countries stops, I'll lift the blocks. Something about a snowball's chance in a heated environment comes to mind here. This isn't particularly precision work as I'm just grabbing whole netblocks, but it's reasonably effective.
The downside to all this is that there is a possibility that I may also be blocking some perfectly wonderful IP addresses. I hope not, but it is a possibility. Sadly, such good folk won't even be able to see this. Too bad the good apples get tossed along with the bad,
Technical Stuff (in no particular order)
Here's a little piece I did on soldering. Simple basic stuff.
Relativistic tone. See IMPORTANT NOTE #1. It's important.
Circuits to create passive G&L L series basses. Yes, single coil is part of the picture. There's also a nice little extra in there.
Early 1980s L-2000 circuits diagrams. From the G&L "archive" and a modern re-do.
Jack replacement procedure for back loaded L series, ASAT, and JB-2 basses as well as ASAT guitars. Maybe some others. You know who you are.
SB-2 shielding tricks.
Details....
El Toro wiring diagram and a separate description sheet. PDFs, so you'll need Acrobat Reader.
Bridge grounding. Use your mind's eye.
L-2500/1505 Bridge Mod. Sustain out the wazoo. Updated 4/8/2010.
L-1500
/ L-1505 / Climax wiring diagram. With color coding, from
G&L.
Notes on setting intonation. It's a fat stringed thing, but probably good for the skinny stringers as well.
Wrenches for your G&L. Of the Allen variety, from old to new.
Tweak that trussrod! Info on how the CNC-era G&L trussrod does its thing.
Not so Technical Stuff
Canned Response. Should have done it years ago.
Instruments
Basses that are gone. The reasons are varied, but gone is still gone. I don't miss 'em at all.
Technical Stuff of the Computer Variety
A technote on the D-Link DWL-2100AP access point. Which irritated me. Not the technote - the AP.
This site is owned by Ken Baker. This site is
not owned by BBE Sound/G&L Guitars. We get
along just fine, but this place is mine.
Hot-linking or file sucking of any content from
this site is strictly prohibited without the
consent of the owner - that's me.
Thank you,
Ken...