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Interview: David Pelletier – Cirque du Soleil bassist

David Pelletier with his FBass BNF5.
David Pelletier with his FBass BNF5.

David Pelletier is the bassist for the Circque du Soleil show “Mystere”. This interview took place around August, 2009. Interestingly, I went to Vegas in June of 2009 and my lovely wife and I went to see Mystere. From the tone and visual style of the bass, I knew that David was playing an F Bass. So I gave my card to the stage manager and asked him to have David contact me. He was gracious enough (and probably curious enough) to contact me, and agreed to this interview.

FretSpot: Performing nightly with CDS must be an interesting experience. How did you get that gig?
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F Bass “BIG F BOOST” RAWKS YOUR BASS!!!

I think we can all agree that the F Bass on-board preamp is the bee’s knees, and we would all LOVE to have this pre on our other basses.  Well – NOW YOU CAN!  The BIG F BOOST is the same pre that you find on the world renown F Basses, but available in a true-bypass stomp box format!  WERD!!!

Big F Boost

F Bass “BIG F BOOST”

-Natural/Fat Sound True to the F Bass Tone
-Completely Hand-Wired Using Only Discrete Components
-Genuine F Bass Preamp
-Accepts 9-18V Center Negative
-True Bypass Switching
-Circuit Protection
-Made in Canada

$379.95

 
 
 
 

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