It’s like CVT of bass. It’s not necessary a good thing. HSS is definitely crazy setup. While I’m not a big fan of the Axis body, I’ve been stalking for the right one for a while now.
The “reflex” hub website seems dated and storing sounds seem complicated. If I do score one it’s be basic on the bass only use for me, lol.
Oh wow - I wonder if they do a purple or blue.
spoiler: they do:
WOW, I love the green/yellow Gatorade Lemon Lime colored one.
I guess we are about to find out the answer to how much the wood affects the tone !
Their showrooms are in Italy and Japan only.
+1 more reason for the Japan trip everyone
Awesome. Lots of great stuff there.
Glen Fricker did a tone-wood comparison recently, and it was pretty funny.
He basically said, if anybody could tell at what time in the track the guitars were switched, and if I they could tell which guitar was which, then he would say tonewood makes a huge difference.
Of course, nobody could.
Also, it was about Guitars in metal, not natural bass tones on bass, but it was funny how many people left hate mail for him saying how wrong he was, but nobody could call out the changes, and which guitars were playing when in his audio clip,
Yep. I select tonewoods for weight these days, not tone, lol
In the Museum of Fancy Basses:
This lovely instrument is made of Striated American Anchorwood known for its solid and reassuring heft.
To the left we have a gorgeous bass made of Lignum chinesium usually mislabeled in the West as ash.
At the back of the hall please see the stunning 5-string with a body made of Opulent Snobiscum, featuring a Keepingupium neck and a Withthejonesesine fretboard.
I know this will be shocking for people that have been around for a while but I think transparent red is a fantastic color on the Mikro:
Not bad for $179 new 
I think that was the same color of my first bass, the GSR 200
Definitely a good color. Ibanez does red well.
Back when there were two.
Both of which are gone now. 
I believe I made a profit of $375 to $400 after selling those and the amps they each came with.
JBL built what they called a speaker shuffler at their place in Northridge. Loudspeakers being compared were on air casters behind a front lit black scrim. They were silently moved in and out of the exact same position for test listening by an automated system controlled by the PC. True double blind study. People suddenly couldn’t tell as many things as they thought they could! Dr. Floyd Toole and Sean Olive have written extensively about bias in audio listening tests.
We do the same with color and food/bev. When doing sensory tests, we have lights that can negate the color of the sample, as it will skew the person’s taste buds simply by seeing the color.
