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Playing multi-string chords, close intervals, complex voicings, and harmonics on your Saber Bass will be a revelation. You will hear an openness, transparency and dimensionality unlike anything you have previously experienced.
Long, Natural Sustain
Since the LightWave Optical Pickup System does not interact with the string, and because it is capable of much greater sensitivity, the strings will sustain much longer. In fact, the strings will sustain for the full duration of their vibration, fading in a pure, linear fashion into silence, without an abrupt ending or distorted artifacts. The decay rate is totally natural, like the pedal sustain of a Grand Piano.
Extremely Low Noise
Unlike magnetic pickups, which induce extraneous noise to the sound, the LightWave Optical Pickup has virtually no self-noise. As a result, you can play at any volume without annoying background hum or buzz. This is an absolute breakthrough for modern recording: noise-free, extraordinarily transparent sound. Even with your amp at high volume, you will experience amazing dynamic range and sensitivity.
iceToneTM
This control allows the blending of the tailored piezo transducers built into each individual string saddle. iceTone is a patented LightWave Systems piezo design that was specifically developed to avoid the clack and harshness typical of piezos while integrating seamlessly with the LightWave Optical Pickup. The result is a smooth, natural sounding high frequency enhancement ranging from crisp high end to percussive presence. iceTone cannot be selected separately, but is added to the optical signal as the control knob is turned up.
Tone Shaping
If you wish to use EQ to shape your sound, you can use any amount desired to create subtle or dramatic tonal variations without tonal artifacts. Since the output of the LightWave Optical Pickup is pure and transparent, you will be augmenting the sound of the string alone, as opposed to the inherent response curves and background noise found in conventional pickups.
Control Elements
Master Volume: Makes the overall signal (optics plus iceTone) louder or softer. Full rotation clockwise results in an output level comparable to most existing active basses.
Bass Boost and Cut: +/-12dB with knee at ~300 Hz. Shelving Type.
Mids Boost and Cut: +/-12dB, at frequency selected by the mids sweep control. Q varies (see below).
Mids Center Frequency (Sweep): 200 Hz (counterclockwise) to 1 kHz (clockwise). Provides a varying Q, that is narrow in the low frequencies and increasingly broad in the higher frequencies, for a more useful effect range.
iceToneTM: The iceTone control blends in the high frequency enhancement built into each individual string saddle. iceTone cannot be selected separately, but is added to the optical signal. Blending in some iceTone will deliver more percussive presence and crisp high end. Full rotation counterclockwise is off.
Warm / Cool Switch: This miniature toggle switch provides a switched-in EQ that applies an upward-tilted frequency response curve, to produce a leaner, cooler balance, with less bass and more upper mids. The two positions of the switch are similar to selecting the neck or bridge pickups of a conventional bass guitar with two magnetic pickups. The Warm / Cool Switch does not appear on LightWave basses with the Mag Hybrid option.
Output Jack: Plugging in a standard 1/4” cable powers the LightWave Optical Pickup System. This turns the pickup system on, for normal playing, for optical setup, or for use of the 13-pin HexFX output. The cable should be unplugged when the instrument is not in use to conserve power and to avoid unnecessary battery drain.
Charger Jack: Insert the LightWave wall charger into this 1/8” jack to recharge the internal NiMH battery pack, or to play using AC power. The rapid charge system will fully recharge the battery pack in about an hour, even while playing. Playtime on a fully charged battery is about 15 hours. (See Battery Pack Advisory 4.2 below).
Status LED: The red LED, located on the low string monolith, illuminates when a 1/4” plug is inserted into the output jack. The LED brightness dims as the battery pack charge is used, acting as a fuel gauge. When the LED goes out, you are playing on ‘reserve’, and should plug in the charger within an hour or two.
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Playing multi-string chords, close intervals, complex voicings, and harmonics on your Saber Bass will be a revelation. You will hear an openness, transparency and dimensionality unlike anything you have previously experienced.
Long, Natural Sustain
Since the LightWave Optical Pickup System does not interact with the string, and because it is capable of much greater sensitivity, the strings will sustain much longer. In fact, the strings will sustain for the full duration of their vibration, fading in a pure, linear fashion into silence, without an abrupt ending or distorted artifacts. The decay rate is totally natural, like the pedal sustain of a Grand Piano.
Extremely Low Noise
Unlike magnetic pickups, which induce extraneous noise to the sound, the LightWave Optical Pickup has virtually no self-noise. As a result, you can play at any volume without annoying background hum or buzz. This is an absolute breakthrough for modern recording: noise-free, extraordinarily transparent sound. Even with your amp at high volume, you will experience amazing dynamic range and sensitivity.
iceToneTM
This control allows the blending of the tailored piezo transducers built into each individual string saddle. iceTone is a patented LightWave Systems piezo design that was specifically developed to avoid the clack and harshness typical of piezos while integrating seamlessly with the LightWave Optical Pickup. The result is a smooth, natural sounding high frequency enhancement ranging from crisp high end to percussive presence. iceTone cannot be selected separately, but is added to the optical signal as the control knob is turned up.
Tone Shaping
If you wish to use EQ to shape your sound, you can use any amount desired to create subtle or dramatic tonal variations without tonal artifacts. Since the output of the LightWave Optical Pickup is pure and transparent, you will be augmenting the sound of the string alone, as opposed to the inherent response curves and background noise found in conventional pickups.
Control Elements
Master Volume: Makes the overall signal (optics plus iceTone) louder or softer. Full rotation clockwise results in an output level comparable to most existing active basses.
Bass Boost and Cut: +/-12dB with knee at ~300 Hz. Shelving Type.
Mids Boost and Cut: +/-12dB, at frequency selected by the mids sweep control. Q varies (see below).
Mids Center Frequency (Sweep): 200 Hz (counterclockwise) to 1 kHz (clockwise). Provides a varying Q, that is narrow in the low frequencies and increasingly broad in the higher frequencies, for a more useful effect range.
iceToneTM: The iceTone control blends in the high frequency enhancement built into each individual string saddle. iceTone cannot be selected separately, but is added to the optical signal. Blending in some iceTone will deliver more percussive presence and crisp high end. Full rotation counterclockwise is off.
Warm / Cool Switch: This miniature toggle switch provides a switched-in EQ that applies an upward-tilted frequency response curve, to produce a leaner, cooler balance, with less bass and more upper mids. The two positions of the switch are similar to selecting the neck or bridge pickups of a conventional bass guitar with two magnetic pickups. The Warm / Cool Switch does not appear on LightWave basses with the Mag Hybrid option.
Output Jack: Plugging in a standard 1/4” cable powers the LightWave Optical Pickup System. This turns the pickup system on, for normal playing, for optical setup, or for use of the 13-pin HexFX output. The cable should be unplugged when the instrument is not in use to conserve power and to avoid unnecessary battery drain.
Charger Jack: Insert the LightWave wall charger into this 1/8” jack to recharge the internal NiMH battery pack, or to play using AC power. The rapid charge system will fully recharge the battery pack in about an hour, even while playing. Playtime on a fully charged battery is about 15 hours. (See Battery Pack Advisory 4.2 below).
Status LED: The red LED, located on the low string monolith, illuminates when a 1/4” plug is inserted into the output jack. The LED brightness dims as the battery pack charge is used, acting as a fuel gauge. When the LED goes out, you are playing on ‘reserve’, and should plug in the charger within an hour or two.
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