LukeFRC
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More likely the usual tale of someone doing something cool (and in this case technically difficult) and taking more orders on than they can manage, have a few setbacks, a batch that comes out wrong, a bout of flu ... and suddenly it all gets ontop of them ...
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you can still explore without massive weight or cost - I made this - it’s a clone of a L4 preamp - it’s got a pretty awesome tone.
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But if you had a big Trace Elliot instead - think how much per month you could save on your gym membership!
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+1 - as a graphic designer there's easy wins you could make on small scale products like this - but equally small scale companies tend to (rightly) focus on engineering and not have budget (or know how to value) design. it's all good.
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oh yeah.... oops
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should I send you a PM to work out how much you would sell a secondhand FI5 vip to me for? I won't tell HMRC.
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If I were Fender I would make the factory a Fender theme park ....
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Acid test over what time period? go back a few years and that range of 80s custom basses, Wals and JD and statii etc were super cheap secondhand cos they weren’t fashionable. but we digress - your statement a load of posts back was “I don't see any of the newer makers as offering worthwhile alternatives to what those established brands offered.” - I suggest at least some of the makers I listed make exciting and interesting instruments that are worthwhile. I also dont think I would use resale value as a main metric to judge the worthwhile ness or quality of an instrument.
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I can think of a bundle of more recent builders doing interesting things… alpher ACG Dingwall F bass Strandberg Klos Marleaux Luduc Le Fay Alusonic Freedom custom guitar research rob allen serek wilcock NS of the ones you’ve listed Shuker and Sei are more one off makers, Overwater have a position of trust for professional players in the U.K. more so than bass players who frequent forums, wal have a unique electronics package and the flea connection, status the graphite usp - though I hated the king bass I tried - and jaydee and GB I’ve no idea about and would never consider… … but it’s all personal preference- with a very close link to the music you were into when you were young … the other difference of course is far less bass used in modern pop music now compared to x years ago …
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Not wanting to labour the point - but the print/insta generation thing applies to us buyers too…
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the change is brands like you listed that formed themselves and advertised via magazines and working with musicians (who you probably found about from press) to now where the brand starts and communicates via instagram and similar platforms.
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Peak?
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So the £130 pedal becomes £180 if it's preloaded with presets that I presume you could add to the £130 one? Have I got that right?
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On a pedal that can do a billion different things - What’s “that” sound?
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Source Audio C4 synth bass pedal £120 - *SOLD*
LukeFRC replied to LukeFRC's topic in Effects For Sale
On hold pending -
thats blooming lovely that is -
great pedal, great seller 👍 -
Source Audio C4 synth bass pedal £120 - *SOLD*
LukeFRC replied to LukeFRC's topic in Effects For Sale
If I kept it it would end up on my board - but I know it wouldn't get masses of use. -
You pick up the issue in your reply - it's not R&D but brand positioning
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Here’s what the pedal it’s based on it sounds like -
C4 synth I bought last week off here for the same price… I used to own one, liked it, sold it, wanted another, saw one at a good price, bought it and then remembered why it didn’t really fit into my rig. it will do synth, it will do octave, harmoniser, arpegator, phaser, drive, distortion, Wavefolding and pretty much every filter sound known to man… it’s just not what I’m going to use. oomos original sale post here
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If most their business is in guitars then I’m not sure G&L will have kept the Fender C-suite up at night. what it might let them do is have fender as the heritage brand and G&L as the wackier ideas brand, in bass world like you said they haven’t really changed much that catches on since moving the jazz pickup - it gives them two/three bass models that actually do something different - a decent 5 string and a more muscular humbucker
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Want to expand on why you thought that?
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having just glanced at it (and not tried it) I would be trialing just chords before onsong. What's the file format @GoodShowSir? I got used to the onsong syntax, is it similar?
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I have the 2020 onsong - it was pay once and then no subscription model. It works if everyone has apple devices and uses it. I've spent so long building up a database of every song we ever sing in onsong format - to then find the new person who heads up the person reverted ... not to PDFs, but to folders of paper. I will be looking at this just chords thing
