Big Poppa
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I think he fainted.
- Thread starter cyoungnashville
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adouglas
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Are we talking
Switch setting 1 = BOO
Switch setting 2 = YAH!
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Switch setting 1 = BOO
Switch setting 2 = YAH!
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cyoungnashville
Chief Fanboi-ardee
OHHH...........MY.............AND DUDLEY's...........EFFn...............GOD(SH).
i cannot believe what i am hearing. i didnt know this sound was possible. insane. total jaw on the floor moment. i heard it at namm and it was the sh!t, but having it in the studio has revealed the true depth. this is bigger and more drastic than standard definition vs./ hi def tv by a long shot. gamechanger is an understatement. im not one bit kidding fellas.
i cannot believe what i am hearing. i didnt know this sound was possible. insane. total jaw on the floor moment. i heard it at namm and it was the sh!t, but having it in the studio has revealed the true depth. this is bigger and more drastic than standard definition vs./ hi def tv by a long shot. gamechanger is an understatement. im not one bit kidding fellas.
keko
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OK, ...one switch more, but what's under the "hood"? (kinda secret weapon I suppose)
Give us some pics of pot/push-switch section!
Anyway, what this switch do to the gamechanger?
Give us some pics of pot/push-switch section!
Anyway, what this switch do to the gamechanger?
oli@bass
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Patiently waiting to hear your Reflexions on a toggle....
cellkirk74
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Movielife
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I think I need to get me one of these next year.
drTStingray
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Not an aftermarket mod, surely
Is it fretboard LED colour control...............
as chief fanboi ardee this would be a cool way to draw even more attention to your Musicman than your playing and tone but it would count as a mod also!Seriously, I can't wait to hear your review and some sound samples of how this toggle switch changes the game for us bassists.
Big Poppa
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OK Kids...Here is where you have to understand what is going on. Most companies through the intitial design stages keep their mouth shut. As a project progresses even more secrecy happens...then prototyping and beta testing it's treated as a national secret.
Here we have told you as much as we possibly can every step of the way.
An important component of the final stages is artist testing. It is really essential that we get a broad based of our artists user comments. These however have to stay between the artist and company first.
Craig is an artist that we respect and therefore has one of the first to beta test. He would love to tell you tiny tiny details but we really dont want him to...If he wants to post sound samples or examples with out providing details then I approve. Please dont ask him anything except for the sounds he is discovering
I will tell you that I have fulfilled a dream with the gamechanger of unlocking the electric bass and guitar. You have no idea how much I invested pursuing this dream.
It is our most significant accomplishment.
Hats off the the engineering dept for a job well done.
Here we have told you as much as we possibly can every step of the way.
An important component of the final stages is artist testing. It is really essential that we get a broad based of our artists user comments. These however have to stay between the artist and company first.
Craig is an artist that we respect and therefore has one of the first to beta test. He would love to tell you tiny tiny details but we really dont want him to...If he wants to post sound samples or examples with out providing details then I approve. Please dont ask him anything except for the sounds he is discovering
I will tell you that I have fulfilled a dream with the gamechanger of unlocking the electric bass and guitar. You have no idea how much I invested pursuing this dream.
It is our most significant accomplishment.
Hats off the the engineering dept for a job well done.
keko
Well-known member
Yeah! OK!
I will not bother any more with technical questions, ...well, not in this level of development for sure!
BP, ...I wish Your team all the best to complete this "dream project" - The Gamechanger!
And Craig, ...keep on rockin'!
Movielife
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It gives me time to save for one And GASSSS
And GASSSS
keko
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It gives me time to save for one
I can see, ...economy crisis is over in the UK?
Movielife
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I can see, ...economy crisis is over in the UK?
Haha, I was going to order a Bongo, and I still might, but I need to pay off these incoming basses first really...or at least have most of the money sorted. I started a new job, also got a future career sorted for a legal position in 20 months (contract signed to start, the usual wait with law firm training contracts) and im almost 30! Hence the recent splurge on basses!
drTStingray
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This is v cool and it will be great to hear sound samples - the GAS for a Reflex with this fitted is starting already.
It's great you guys are so progressive when a lot around seem to simply want to go backwards only.
drTStingray
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I can see, ...economy crisis is over in the UK?
It most certainly isn't
Hey Movielife, you must have the biggest fleet of '10 model EBMMs outside of Guitar Centre
T-bone
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Based on this alone, I will buy one. Then I'll tell two people, and they'll tell two people, and so on, and so on........
Please let us know when they are available to order. This is exciting!
tbone
nicjimbass
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I find this to be very exciting. We're witnessing the birth of something great, but I don't know if we all realize it. I don't consider myself a fanboi or anything like that- I simply play an SR5 as my main axe, and have for about 10 years or so. I love the instruments, and I love the company. So maybe I am a fanboi. Either way, it seems as though, by allowing us such a large preview of this technology, that we've lost sight of just how big this could actually be.
I got to thinking about BP and the Bongo, the Reflex, etc., and it seems to me that the soul and essence of what Leo Fender was all about rests on his shoulders. The same drive that created the electric bass, and went on to improve upon it time after time is something I see every time I read something BP posts. I for one do not want to take it lightly. It's very easy to look at something like the GameChanger and drool over how cool of a tool it is, and how much we'd like to play with it, but realistically, as BP has hinted, this could literally change the entire industry, and we have a front row seat. Imagine being privy to the details of the birth of the Jazz Bass or the original StingRay... it's pretty crazy!
I got to thinking about BP and the Bongo, the Reflex, etc., and it seems to me that the soul and essence of what Leo Fender was all about rests on his shoulders. The same drive that created the electric bass, and went on to improve upon it time after time is something I see every time I read something BP posts. I for one do not want to take it lightly. It's very easy to look at something like the GameChanger and drool over how cool of a tool it is, and how much we'd like to play with it, but realistically, as BP has hinted, this could literally change the entire industry, and we have a front row seat. Imagine being privy to the details of the birth of the Jazz Bass or the original StingRay... it's pretty crazy!
bovinehost
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Things are changing and sometimes we really don't understand it or realize it. I'm as guilty as the next old guy, too. I didn't want an iPad - what would I do with an iPad? And now I'm figuring out that guys like Craig and our own Doctor Strangeglow (John Worthington) are using these things to make music and art and fabulous photography and - I've only scratched the surface of mine, but I finally get it.
And I've said before that I'm a lunch-pail bassist, that I get about two or maybe three tones and that's about all I need.....but why do I have to paint in just red or yellow if I can also have magenta and martini olive green and about a zillion other appealing colors? I got a phone call from a highly-placed source deep within SLO (okay, Las Vegas at the moment, but still) this morning that really helped me to understand what it is the the Gamechanger could do for ME.
(Also, Craig has been beating me up pretty good.) (Thanks, Craig.)
I never forget this. I know it's true. I think about it when my young son says something about Sterling - he knows BP builds guitars and stuff, but when he gets older, when he gets some historical perspective, THAT is when it's going to hit him. "STERLING BALL?" Yeah, man, Sterling effin' Ball.
And I've never lost my sense of wonder.
Bring on the doo-dads!
your lunch-pail pal,
Jack
MadMatt
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Oh crap, Craig's got a toggle! Time for me to dig out the drill and mount me one on my 25th too.
oddjob
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I started hanging around here back in 2004. I had read the Bass Player review of the Bongo and was a bit curious. I ended up bidding and winning Kermit and then attended the first Open House (I am building to a point here).
I walked into the Open House and Sterling walks up to me, looks at my name tag and starts rattling off stuff about me being a teacher and a few things about posts that I had put up here. I doubt he even remembers the moment... but I do. I don't kid myself. I don't have the relationship with BP that Jack, Craig, TK, or a few others have... hell I don't know that it is called a "relationship" . What I do know, is that for a brief moment BP and crew took a few moments to learn about me and made me feel like the center of the universe... not bad for a teacher from Cincinnati. It was that day that I became a Knucklehead and an EBMM customer for life.
After that, it continued. Open House part II and the Dall-Ass B-Day Bash didn't put me front and center, but at each event I was part of something (I will say having lunch with BP and Luke was a extreeme memorable moment).
Add to all of this the level of access we have had and this has been insane. The BP blogs alone are a cool look inside; but look at how many posts he has! I have never seen this level of interactiveness (and he has pretty much answered all of my questions straight out - again, very cool). But then we have some inside access too!?!?! I remember watching the Dargies come to life, the Sterling 5, Big Al, the Rosewoods, the Reflex, the classics, etc.... and now we have the Gamechanger. I don't know the ins and outs... I haven't tried it, seen, it, touched it, etc. ... but I have seen and heard enough to say "Wow!" (and BP and crew have said a ton if you just sit back and actually listen). Will it be successful and chage the 1950's bass mindset; I hope so.
I just stand back and shake my head in wonder and awe. It is cool to know that history is happening right before my eyes and that fact isn't lost on me.
It is a great time in history to be a Knucklehead!
I walked into the Open House and Sterling walks up to me, looks at my name tag and starts rattling off stuff about me being a teacher and a few things about posts that I had put up here. I doubt he even remembers the moment... but I do. I don't kid myself. I don't have the relationship with BP that Jack, Craig, TK, or a few others have... hell I don't know that it is called a "relationship"
. What I do know, is that for a brief moment BP and crew took a few moments to learn about me and made me feel like the center of the universe... not bad for a teacher from Cincinnati. It was that day that I became a Knucklehead and an EBMM customer for life. After that, it continued. Open House part II and the Dall-Ass B-Day Bash didn't put me front and center, but at each event I was part of something (I will say having lunch with BP and Luke was a extreeme memorable moment).
Add to all of this the level of access we have had and this has been insane. The BP blogs alone are a cool look inside; but look at how many posts he has! I have never seen this level of interactiveness (and he has pretty much answered all of my questions straight out - again, very cool). But then we have some inside access too!?!?! I remember watching the Dargies come to life, the Sterling 5, Big Al, the Rosewoods, the Reflex, the classics, etc.... and now we have the Gamechanger. I don't know the ins and outs... I haven't tried it, seen, it, touched it, etc. ... but I have seen and heard enough to say "Wow!" (and BP and crew have said a ton if you just sit back and actually listen). Will it be successful and chage the 1950's bass mindset; I hope so.
I just stand back and shake my head in wonder and awe. It is cool to know that history is happening right before my eyes and that fact isn't lost on me.
It is a great time in history to be a Knucklehead!
