F Bass settings for various styles (with artist Calvin Beale)
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Calvin Beale breaks down the BN controls*** and shares a few of his favourite settings. Calvin is playing his 33" scale BN6 Brown Burst with an Ash body, Maple fingerboard, and A Style bridge through a TecAmp Black Jag 900 + TecAmp L410 speaker cabinet. This video is recorded with a Zoom Q3 and the amp's EQ is set flat.
***BN controls are identical to the BNF & VF models with the exception of the VF not having a push/pull pot for stacked single coil/hum-cancelling mode....it runs vintage single coils only.
- Intro Music: "Lorge" by El Ten Eleven 
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all videos about showcase should be like this one!!!
I'd love to see an F Bass video comparing Calvin's 33" 6 String BN to Rich Brown's VF6! It would be great to hear those guys play together and to highlight the differences in those two models and scale lengths!
Awesome video Calvin, great coverage on the tonal possibilities that F basses have to offer! And yes you rule!
Very well explained! Great various tones! A F bass for life!!!
Excellent video for these great fine Basses!
Very good demo and a great sounding bass and rig!
Really good video! I just got a F Bass VF5 and this result very useful while i was playing it and experimenting with the preamp! Thanks F Bass!
the el ten eleven into was pretty cool, throwback for me personally
A very cool sharing! ive learnt so much from this video. thanks a lot!
What an awesome sound,... I want one !
great video man! that thing got some killer tones
Someone pass me the tissues please,god what a glorious bass I want it!!
Rafael De Smet I agree!!!! I play two 78' P Basses and a couple of 5 bangers depending on the gig and oh how I wish I could play one single playable axe (remember that term) on a gig. I will continue to dream and to make consessions!!!!
Fantastic very good
Great video! I thought his R and B tone was a little muddy though, even for a Pino tone.
Is berry good
Awesome,👏👏👏 I want that bass,, 😖😖😖😖☺☺☺☺
What kind of pre-amp is in that bass? Most other basses would sound terrible with all the tone controls set to 10. Plus it's level would be way higher than passive mode.
Hi Paul, that's our standard F Bass preamp. Our preamps are handmade here in Hamilton, ON using discrete components (transistors, resistors, capacitors) rather than over-engineered IC chips. This helps us achieve a more open and transparent sound that allows the instrument to translate its inherent tone without colouration. Our 3-band preamp controls Bass Boost, Mid Boost, and Treble Boost. When all are set flat at 0, there is no perceivable difference from your passive tone. It's not a terribly hot preamp so the low draw 9V pre allows for approximately 500 hours of play before tonal degradation.
How do you like that Tecamp cab? Thanks.
Goddammit, why is it so damn expensive !!
***** Because that's what it's worth ;) I just purchased my first one, and it is a boutique bass by all standards. Though what I love, is that in its design, is masterfully hand crafted, though simple.. a nice piece of ash body, on a 3 piece, quarter-sawn maple neck. Getting the best of all worlds, without getting that super compressed and choked sound that you can get from basses with too many woods/laminations. It resonates beautifully is what I'm saying :)
***** Aside from being a boutique instrument, quality parts aren't cheap, and I think builders (I am a builder) really do try to keep their overhead low without compromising their quality. They also don't want you to feel as though you need to do any upgrading when you get one of their instruments, as I don't. I've never heard of someone wanting to upgrade their F-Bass or Fodera bridge for a Badass II. Companies like F-Bass don't have robots that carve 5 - 10 body blanks at a time in a matter of minutes. They don't outsource work to other countries, slave labor in some instances, to make a cheaper product. As a builder, you have to not only make enough money to pay your bills, but you have to make enough to be able to invest back into your company for supplies, equipment, materials, repairs, payroll, taxes, rent, utilities, marketing... and the list goes on an on... all this before you pay your light bill at home. Companies like Fender, Ibanez, Carvin... they have the equipment to roll out a mass produced instrument for less $$, Gibson sells a guitar or bass every 97 seconds... More volume is more money. Money wise it is better for you to sell 100 instruments at $1000 than 10 @ $5000. However even those companies' instruments start getting very pricey when they get into the techniques and materials that boutique bass companies use. For many of the builders it's about passion. Why else would Vincent Fodera, Joey Lauriecella and George Furlanetto stand with a carving knife all day covered in dust? I assure you it isn't ONLY about the money, otherwise they would purchase a bunch of machines to do the work for them, reduce prices, and sell a lot more basses. For myself, it's a second full time job, but I sweat my butt off in the shop and still dream about building freaking basses, I love it! Mike Pedulla said that he scaled back their production back in the 90's because his passion was to build, not manage. He preferred to be in the shop than behind a desk. There's no feeling like it, you're completely miserable doing anything else. I have no beef with Fender or Carvin.... I currently own one of both, but their custom shop stuff starts at around $2500 and can reach the $10K mark. It's MUCH easier to have a CNC machine radius a neck than to carve it with a good ol cabinet rasp, but if you do it with a rasp, your time is worth more than minimum wage, or you're better off working somewhere for minimum wage. I respect Fender, Gibson, Carvin and other companies because they are successful and are able to put instruments in the hands of folks that cannot afford, or don't care for high end stuff. I also have a lot of respect for George Furlanetto, the Fodera folks, Randall Fulmer (Wyn), Mike Tobias, Mike Pedulla, Jens Ritter, and other builders because it requires a lot of patience, hard work and yes ... stress because you have to be able to sell what you make.
I've played F-Bass, Fodera, Tobias, Ken Smith's etc... and yes, the feel is a lot different than a mass produced instrument.
Sorry for writing a book, and doing some rambling. I love to build them myself, and have a lot of respect for other guys that do also. Some people could care less about hand-crafted, and that's fine because there are companies that are able to get instruments in to their hands. However, there's a lot more to it than just throwing a price tag out there to make a lot of money and prestige.
Calvin effing rules
On website, there's no 33" option :S :S
Fender basses are the best!
Next demo please give us less talk, less looping, and more playing.
catboyzee Sorry, I like to hear the talk.. I like to know where the player is coming from, and it gives us good insight into what they are about. Try skipping to the part of video you want. :)
This video made for bassist not for "folk listener"
Where are Salsa, merengue, vallenato ´s styles?
Well most likely it's due to recording quality but overall it sounds just cheap... Like I don't know Lakland skyline 55-01 on a hartke amp