The ASAT Bass Signature shown here is an interesting transitional example from the BBE period. The new owners of G&L made sweeping changes almost immediately after taking over the company in November 1991. This bass has a Leo-era slab body with output jack plate, but the neck is from early 1992 and has different tuner posts (satin finish with shoulder vs. polished aluminum conical), a semi-gloss neck finish (Leo-era necks were high gloss and later BBE-era necks were satin), and a scooped contour behind the nut. This bass retains the thin veneer fingerboard of the Leo-era, but later in 1992 BBE switched to a thick veneer board. By 1993 the fingerboards were slab cut. Most importantly, the BBE-era ASAT Basses (and L-2000s) used a different preamp labelled as Version 1.0 on the circuit board. This circuit uses a different op-amp and a series/parallel humbucking switch in place of the former coil splitter. This results in a different sounding ASAT Bass. Around 1999, G&L revised the preamp once again (Version 1.1) using the original Leo-era op-amp and similar circuit, but retained the series/parallel selector.