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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Completed two one-hour sets with the Koala yesterday. First, I removed two shims Saturday evening which certainly improved my comfort level with the action. The contour bowl feels comfortable enough, but it was strange not being able to look down at the fretboard as I do with the deep bowls. In addition, I was not initially comfortable with the fact that the fretboard joins the body at the 12th fret. After playing 14th fret joiners for so long, you take some things for granted, like where frets are supposed to be in relation to the body. When we ran through our numbers during warm-up, I occasionally came up a fret short when I was fingering in the upper range. It wasn’t difficult to overcome, but I had to keep it in mind. In addition, after changing locations between services, I couldn’t seem to get any response from the electronics after hooking everything back up. Recalling past posts about this, I removed the electronics cartridge and immediately popped it back in. Everything then worked fine. I typically remove the cable from my Os and As during set downtime to extend battery life, but maybe this isn’t a good idea with the VIP. Its advanced electronics may be giving itself some sort of reset activation signal. On a very positive note, a lot of people came up afterwards and complimented me on the absolutely stunning Koa wood top. Showing off this beauty was, after all, the point. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Great story. I really enjoy playing mine out. It always gets comments.
I feel your pain on the fret location stuff. For the last few months, my two main guitars have been the Koala (12 fret) and my Lucille, which has a double cut away design that effectively makes it a "19 fret" neck. Going back and forth between the two takes some adjustment. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Not only have I been gigging weekly at church with mine, I sent it home with our keyboard player to record with it. Mind you, he has plenty of nice guitars (MarTaYaVees), but in his words "nothing that sounds like this. You don't hear the box, just the top". It has old Rotosounds on it. Most of the brightness is gone, leaving only a dark, rich, pure tone.
I always use the dummy plug when I run the XLR. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by mtnbikerfred:
I always use the dummy plug when I run the XLR. Somebody recommended a certain type of XLR cable that works without the dummy plug (Planet Waves?) and that is what I have, although my set-up is getting a bit more complicated so I'm not using it to the extent I thought I would. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | So ProfBB, mtnbikerfred, Omaha, Tupperware.. that's 4. Wasn't this a run of 12? Any more of them publicly known? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You'd have to ask the dealer, but my understanding was that most of the initial batch of 12-fretters are gone. Maybe all gone, maybe 1-2 left. I dunno. I do know that he's now taking orders for the second run which is the same exact guitar but this time in a 14 fret neck version. Should be another winner. Dave |
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Location: ms | I think a couple of 12-fretters have not come in yet. |
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Playing out with the Koala
