Beautiful. Enjoy the enhanced bass playing skills that are included - you just need to swallow two straplocks with an evening meal.
The other preorders will be arriving with buyers today or tomorrow, and they'll be on general sale to everyone in the next few days once I have the supplies ready.
Cheers and enjoy!
To be honest, I ignore what the model is called/meant to sound like and find which sounds best. Most of the time that’s the ‘super flat’ in my Roland. I honestly don’t think amplifiers vary in their ‘baked in’ sound as much as these companies seem to think!
Ive bought loads this year - everything I was after came up at once. A Celinder J-update, ‘83 Musicman and some synths - but my BEST is probably the Future Impact pedal because it’s opened up so many possibilities with my mini bass which was already a full on synth stick.
Worst - I bought the correct USB cable for my C4 but haven’t even fired up the editor yet. All in good time!
Yeah I hate a super fast clackity clack bass’line’ played by a show off (like everyone at LBGS) but a slow groove with a couple of accented slaps/pops, yes please 🤗
Weirdly the person who bumped this necro thread emailed support to say he wants his account deleting because he’s realised he doesn’t want to talk about bass with strangers!
I just got my Labella 760FX strings from Bass Direct. Weirdly they don't have red/orange silk like the ones on my G&L but they're quite old, maybe they changed - they feel the same anyway!
Well - they sound fantastic on the Ray. They have that kind of loose 'rubber band' funk sound that suits the ray so well. Pops on the G string sound really clear with a lack of sustain that sounds really fat. I've backed off the bass control to bring up the mids and it growls when played fingerstle really well.
Very pleased - I'll keep the Elixirs to one side if I ever need a really slicing sound but I have other basses for that - the flats suit this old dog really well and something about the fat slab body and feel of the bass just works with these strings. The whole vibe of the bass has shifted a few notches towards 'chonky'
Yes it’s great and quite easy to use and time the presses to produce a clean take. It might just be the power supply I’m using but it refuses to accept one of them and the other two seem quite noisy. I’ll try it with batteries and see if that’s better. I could probably use a decent multi power bank tbh
Finally got round to learning Michael McDonald’s ‘I Keep Forgetting’ today. It doesn’t feel right playing along on anything but a ray!!
I’m going to try some flats on it too - Labella 760fx are my go to. Interested to hear if any ray players here use them.
I think I read somewhere that UV is the best thing to kill the bacteria/smell. Leaving it out in string sunlight (yeah right!) or maybe borrow a tanning bed 😂
Looks good! I can see the way it’s constructed much better now. You might like to add another strap pin along the body so it balances further along to the side, as it were, in a more natural position. Let us know how it sounds!
BTW my post shouldn't be read as an endorsement of any kind - it could fall apart at any second so will have to see how it goes, although initial findings are positive.
I don’t know if they do any other colours. Pretty good padding, the bag stays in shape well and I’d say it’s comparable with my Fusion bag. There are some interior pics on the link.