OldManMusic
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I did my first gig with my Reflex Game Changer last night (sorry – no pics). We did a 3 set gig in a downtown Denver Irish pub. For the first 2 sets, I stuck with my standard Bongo H, mainly because I know exactly how it’s going to perform and I use a Hipshot for some drop-D tunings. For the 3rd set, it was Game Changer time. This was the first time that I had used it outside of my man-cave and with its wide range of tones, I wondered how well it would compare to my Bongo.
I started 3rd set on the Game Changer with the neck humbucker pu both coils parallel in active – and I liked it. I liked it a lot! Then clicked to another home fav, both buckers parallel active – it was punch city. Switched over to passive and rolled through my presets – not a bad one in the bunch and hung out in this mode most of the set.
I have a small solo in one of the songs and flipped to one of the out-of-phase parallel settings I programmed and got this brilliantly slicing tone that killed. The out-of-phase setting gave me a tone somewhere between Stanley Clarke’s solo sound and that cutting John Entwistle signature sound (no, I can’t play like either of them but I dig that sound). And as soon as my little solo bit was done, a quick click of the 5-way and I was back to fat-city tone. Frickin awesome. The guitar player kept leaning over saying “that new bass sounds great”.
I’ve been hooked on the Bongo H sound for some time now and the Bongo I used last night has a fresh set of Cobalts on it. That is a hard act to follow. But once the Reflex Game Changer got onto my shoulder, it was a whole new ball game. It’s going to take a few more gigs to really play with all the tones that I like in the man-cave, but it’s going to be a fun process. And when the original Slinkys fade, I’ll have to slap some Cobalts on the Reflex – heck yeah…
I started 3rd set on the Game Changer with the neck humbucker pu both coils parallel in active – and I liked it. I liked it a lot! Then clicked to another home fav, both buckers parallel active – it was punch city. Switched over to passive and rolled through my presets – not a bad one in the bunch and hung out in this mode most of the set.
I have a small solo in one of the songs and flipped to one of the out-of-phase parallel settings I programmed and got this brilliantly slicing tone that killed. The out-of-phase setting gave me a tone somewhere between Stanley Clarke’s solo sound and that cutting John Entwistle signature sound (no, I can’t play like either of them but I dig that sound). And as soon as my little solo bit was done, a quick click of the 5-way and I was back to fat-city tone. Frickin awesome. The guitar player kept leaning over saying “that new bass sounds great”.
I’ve been hooked on the Bongo H sound for some time now and the Bongo I used last night has a fresh set of Cobalts on it. That is a hard act to follow. But once the Reflex Game Changer got onto my shoulder, it was a whole new ball game. It’s going to take a few more gigs to really play with all the tones that I like in the man-cave, but it’s going to be a fun process. And when the original Slinkys fade, I’ll have to slap some Cobalts on the Reflex – heck yeah…
