Question for Big Poppa about Game Changer

[MusicMan4Life38]

I was wondering if the Game Changer setup will later down the road be available in a Stingray or Sterling bass? I know it won't be now, I was just curious.

Also I have to say that for years I have been frustrated that no company was making what I call a "One stop shop bass", and finally a company makes what I have been looking for, for years now. The Game Changer has to be the biggest innovation there has ever been for guitar and bass. I can tell you right now Game Changer will be my next bass for sure.

Now if only someone could make a 7 pound all tube bass amp. You would think tubes would have gotten smaller, lighter and cooler after all these years of guitar and bass players using them in their amps.

 

[TheAntMan]

I would love a GC in Bongo with the blend knob, passive/active, serial/parallel!!! That would also give 24 frets!!!

I hope it will be an available feature in each model as each model with the GC would still make for different instruments. Don't think that a GC in Reflex would be the same as a GC in Bongo, Big AL, Stingray or Stirling. Each had different necks, bodies, PU placement and more.

--Ant

 

[Movielife]

7lb all 'ish' tube amp, try the Genz Streamliner. Very very tube like.

I'm guessing the GC will be for the Reflex shape only for quite a while.

 

[rutgart]

Regarding Little Tubes = Markbass TTE 500

It ROXXS!!!!

 

[Big Poppa]

eventually the gc will make its way into many instruments...not tuba though....hahaha

 

[MusicMan4Life38]

eventually the gc will make its way into many instruments...not tuba though....hahaha

LOL!

That makes me happy as I would love to have the GC in a Sterling. The hardest thing for me would be which pickup config to decide on, HH or HSS.

 

[Fred_Flux]

eventually the gc will make its way into many instruments...not tuba though....hahaha

Eventually I will go bankrupt: but this is such good news that I'm not worried; actually, I'm daydreaming about me being with a Stingray 5 FL, a GC Sterling 5 HS and a GC Bongo 6 HS. And homeless. And happy.

 

[Rick Auricchio]

Now if only someone could make a 7 pound all tube bass amp.

It isn't tubes that weigh, it's the transformers, which then take up more chassis space, so then the chassis and cabinet adds size and weight.

And demand is so small that most tube amps are built by boutique companies for high prices. Tube amps are definitely not a mass-produced item.

 

[adouglas]

eventually the gc will make its way into many instruments...not tuba though....hahaha

As long as it shows up in a kazoo, I'll be happy.

 

[jlepre]

+1000 on the Genz Benz Streamliner!

 

[TheAntMan]

eventually the gc will make its way into many instruments...not tuba though....hahaha

Awesome BP, that rocks! I would love to get a GC in Bongo, Reflex, and Stingray. I am going to start saving right now! Wife already knows and supports the plan

--Ant

 

[cyoungnashville]

tuba helper.

 

[MK Bass Weed]

Tuba Tone...it's in the lips

 

[fly]

Tuba Tone...it's in the lips

hahahaha....damn straight.

 

[Aussie Mark]

+1000 on the Genz Benz Streamliner!

^^^
This

Or, if you absolutely must have an all tube amp in the lightest possible package, I can also vouch for the awsomeness of the 300w Traynor YBA-300. 12 x 6L6 tubes, and you can still carry it one handed. Half the weight of an SVT head.

 

[keko]

Tuba Tone...it's in the lips

...or someone, like me, got it in the fingers!

OK, ...I must explain my words from above, ...in my region we play lots of domestic folk music where bass guitar must have sound like a Tuba, ...so I developed myself that kind of technique on electric bass!

 

[adouglas]

Isn't that BP over on the right, before he lost weight?

 

[tunaman4u2]

With the tuba over his face I was going to ask how AD knew it was BP, then on 2nd thought I figured I'd leave that alone

 

[J Romano]

...or someone, like me, got it in the fingers!

OK, ...I must explain my words from above, ...in my region we play lots of domestic folk music where bass guitar must have sound like a Tuba, ...so I developed myself that kind of technique on electric bass!

Glad you explained that Keko, not much air comes out of the fingers

 

[maddog]

Now if only someone could make a 7 pound all tube bass amp. You would think tubes would have gotten smaller, lighter and cooler after all these years of guitar and bass players using them in their amps.

Nature will not abide. It isn't just the transformers. The anode, cathode and heater have to have a certain amount of physical separation to handle a desired current capability or things go ker-zap. As for cooler, without heaters, tubes don't work so well. Them electrons need a little encouraging to jump from the cathode to the anode. Shy little bastards.

Silicon does wonders where vacuum cannot (and vice-versa). I've found mosfet based designs to have similar sonic characteristics to tube based amps. Most early circuit designers treated them like vacuum tubes.