Finishing touches
“The Fretless Wonder”, my 5-string high C bass from UNICORNbass gets it’s finishing touches by master luthier Christian Olsson. Soon the wait will be over!
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The latest addition to my increasing collection of pedals.
Yesterday I picked up the DITTO from the Stockholm based pedal experts at “These goes to 11“. A very nice store with amazing service, including a big smile when I opened up the door.
After the audio interface Konnekt 24D I’ve been looking in other directions from TC Electronic. But an increasing bag of bass related things brought the interest back to the company, and then came the DITTO!
A small, yes it really is tiny, looper that do just one thing: Loop! In, out, a volume control and a footswitch, when competing brands push more and more features into the looper pedals, the TC just gives us the simple to use core function. And really, thats all you probably need.
The sound quality is great, the loop sounds just as good as the direct sound. But if you have a too hot signal in it starts to sound bad. I used the FloorQ to boost about 10dB and that was a bit too much for the Ditto to handle. I really love/hate the FloorQ, and should probably find something better.
My intent with the Ditto is to mainly use it as a practice tool, recording instant playalongs. And for that use it’s a perfect match.
One caution though: stomping that footswitch in time do need some practice.
More examples will come on the DITTO Sessions page
So a sudden decision had to be made. Ebony or epoxy covers for the pickups. I went with the standard epoxy covers. Ebony covers would take too much attention from the beautiful macassar top.
Time to try the Jonny Trobro Melodic Edition strings from UNICORNbass
This strings are basically a high C 5string set with an added higher F instead of going lower to the B as is mostly common on 6 string basses. The first impression was Damn this are thin but after a couple of minutes I got used to it and playing chords high up sounds fabulous. Good experiment!
The neck and fretboard Another picture of the UNICORNbass 5-string Ozellman fretless being built for me by the masterful luthier Cristian Olsson.
