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If they were available through Amazon I would probably have bought one already. I love the option to return.

Fraid not. I strung a dinged one BEAD today and we shall see.

Realer is more of a word than my progress

I cannot document what I have. What would happen if my wife saw them together?

I have more basses than I need. I have two 4 strings that I NEVER play in anger, both nitro paint and well beaten up. But the pleasure I get from picking them up and noodling while not having to worry about donking the chair or desk or belt or whatever is a thing of joy. The 5 strings I use are all "newer" and posh and I really miss not having to worry about donking them. It almost makes me want to string one up BEAD and dump the rest. Proper 1st world problems.

As an aside, nice pointing work on that wall.

I am wobbling on the edge here...........

Sadness. The Boss pedal dose sustain remarkably well, but the FI leaves the rest of it behind.

We live in the golden age of lutherie.

Any idea when the sustain function will happen?

I fired it up and messed with it. The polyphonic nature of it makes it quite forgiving of sloppy playing. It tracks well all the way to bottom. The arpeggiator is lots of fun, but with no tap tempo option I cannot see how I can use it in the real world. I had hoped that aspect would replace my Boss Slicer. It wont. There is a movable filter doobrie on it but that is universal so if it is set for one sound it is set for everything so that is not so great. The sounds are fine. The sustain pedal function is the bomb. The lack of tweakability which is programmable means it is not for me.

My Church used to meet in a school. I was not down to play bass that morning. The bassist could not make it. I had to step in. I raided the music room and picked up the only bass there. Plywood. Tuned the G with pliers cos the machine head was not there. It was ....... not what we all hope for. It made that bass sound and no one even noticed that I did not bring any of my basses which have cost at least 10 times as much.

Shukers are not for everyone. But neither are Fenders. Or Foderas. Or Wals.

Thanks Interesting I am now mature enough to resist late night GAS, but a truss rod cover suggests it might make a candidate for a short scale metal strung bass and rout a pickup in there.

I played through those in a DB Bash. They were very fine indeed.

The reality is that i have never gigged my FI in anger. Every time I fired it up in a gig situation with one band the keys player looked at me with a smile and then called up something obscene on his Moog/Nord/ARP and I slid backwards into the wings. Or I fired it up on DB with a singer I worked with and she looked confused. I have no issue with the FI tracking and do not expect this to be any different. If the sustain thing was happening on the FI then I would not be bothering but a job I did owed me some money and I treated myself to this. The actual amount of FX I use out in the real world are negligable so my opinion is not going to sway anyone. I can see myself using the sustain thing in Church so that makes it a useful experiment. Pretty soon all the online retailers in the UK will blacklist me because you can have an awful lot of fum messing with stuff at home and then sending them back.

Looks cool. What was the damage?

Due tomorrow. It is the sustain pedal aspect that is drawing me in. I have an FI for synthy goodness.

Curiosity has got the better of me. I am going in.

You call that autotune? THIS is autotune!!!