Owen

Thanks

Thanks, I will get some NM Pro.

Neck or neck and body? I am getting ready to attack mine.

The piezo is currently sitting under normal bass guitar strings cut to size but tuned to pitch. My guess is that there is too much pressure. The strings have settled in and I think that it will work. I am going to get some proper machine heads, a cheap and cheerful 5 string bridge and a funky Oval Delano pickup. Passive vol and EQ for now but might put a pre in there later.

I pur a set of bass guitar strings on today. The tesnion is ok. the nut is so high for the flobadob rubber strings that fretted notes on frets 1 and 2 are way out. 4 of the 5 machine heads only want to turn in one direction so I have had to reverse wind strings. I might have crushed the piezo to death. It is going well, and it is not going well. Structurally I think it might work. At the moment, it is not happy. I am not too bothered about the piezo cos I would change the bridge anyway.

I am describing the Freeze, but I figure that having different tones ready to be sustained would give me a broader pallette. For instance there are some songs we do in church where having a quiet "pad" would be great and that can be programmed with perhaps less initial "thud" from the bass. The element of progammability is what does it for me. Obv, when I talk of programmability I am talking about the geeks at work doing that for me.

Much to learn I have. Off to shop I shall go.

The Morningstar stuff looks interesting but it will be a click on click off event which I am not hugely up for. I just want to hit an open E on the bass, press a sustain pedal like a keyboard player would and get 41Hz of LF goodness rumbling on until I take my foot off. I am not trying to be awkward.

Now, this is exciting. Now I need you to tell me which one.

Can I do it with some sort of stand alone midi controller as if I am just using a sustain pedal? I full realise that I will not be freezing the audio. but could have patches which would continue the synth sound until the cows come home? Can I just create a really long note while just playing bass on stage?

Sustain pedal is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! ?

Oooft, that is a fine looking axe.

Oooooh, that JTEX looks nice.

When I grow up I hope to be able to extend the end of a phrase so that I land in the next one about 4 or 6 beats after the One and have it contribute to music and not sound like a mistake.

I went to a clinic he did in London a few years ago. I could not understand why it was not a BC national conference.

http://www.guitarpaintguys.com/colors/metalflake/badazz_blue_flake.jpg

Neck back to the thinest clear seal I can get away with and a colour matched headstock.

Not helping. I always like to keep an eye on resale

Nope 3ply white black white.

I suspect it will be because I have always fancied a Metal Flake but they need a scratchplate and no other bass I own has a scratchplate. Unless I want to respray an old Fender.

That is the problem.

BF are hitting the mainstream. Congratulations to them.

Classic. I am now humming and hahing between metal flake blue or a nice lightly reliced sea foam green. 1st world problems.

The pickup and preamp combo are very nice. If they came in any other body shape I would probably be there. It is not that I dislike the body shape, I just could not get comfy with it. Are the electronics available aftermarket? They did not used to be but I have got to the stage in life where I no longer NEED to know everything about everything bass so am out of the loop.

I have owned 3 of them. The electronics were just superb. I could not get with the lower horn digging into my leg when I sat down.