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  1. Quatschmacher
    The daft thing is, I only ordered it on Saturday and won’t receive it for another couple of weeks! Haha, indeed.
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    The gate isn’t adjustable but it’s pretty tight. Awesome for synth-type sounds and has a very snappy, percussive feel. It’s a joy to play. In fact, I’ve been playing mine for the last few hours and had loads of fun putting it through a filter and coming up with Stevie-type lines.
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    @GisserD - don’t miss this!
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    Are you high, Cameron? What on earth are you doing? This is a fantastic pedal (I own one) has three fantastic voices in it, each with its own tone knob. The gated dynamic fuzz (both at pitch and one octave below) is great for synth stuff, either alone or paired with a filter. It has a very good octaver too, with a wide range in the tone knob. I much preferred this over the Octamizer and T-16. Tracking is really good; not as good as the MXR but I’ve yet to find anything that is to be honest. Cameron is great to deal with and a lovely guy too. Don’t sleep on this as he might well come to his senses soon!
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    I sold Ian my Q-Tron+ and it was a straightforward transaction with prompt, friendly communication. Many thanks.
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    Nice and very tempting, (though I’m consider a Subsequent 37). Checked out a fair few in-depth videos of this last night and it sounds super fat. Wonder if it might’ve been better to get this instead of the Minitaur.
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    Was it the tension that you couldn’t get on with? That’s a pretty heavy gauge of flat wound you bought and there are lighter sets available.
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    @Jimryan
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    Checking my bank balance (and my conscience) right now.
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    Sold, thanks.
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    I’m trying to clear the way for some imminent purchases (yes, yet more filters and hopefully a synth or two) so putting this up for grabs. In excellent condition. The loop on this envelope-controlled filter is particularly useful if putting distortion and/or octave down in front of it as your instrument’s original signal dynamics are used to drive the filter section. Comes with original instructions but without the box. Will be sent safely though.
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    Does this come with the other neck plate?
  13. Quatschmacher
    As said, the IR bass already has a “pluck detect” feature and so, in some ways, is a superior system.
  14. Quatschmacher
    The Frettrax will not trigger on open strings. The triggering is done by the string making contact with the fret. By contrast, the industrial radio does trigger open strings. This is because (in one mode) the string touching the fret only gives the pitch information; the triggering comes from the sensor in the bridge which detects string movement. You might be able to use a zero fret on Frettraxx (only as a non-midi note) but only if that fret is not electrically wired up to the others (otherwise it’d be always on).
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    Just found this one too:
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    They used to do a 5-string version.
  17. Quatschmacher
    This is what I get for reading and walking. I totally missed this post and came across the very same product by chance yesterday. Looks absolutely amazing! Browsing this site, it appears a basschatter sold one last year. Hopefully we can find out who has it now and ask very nicely if we might get to try it. If it does what it says it does then I’m totally getting one.
  18. Quatschmacher
    It looks like this newer iteration has much less bulky hardware; on the bass body the only differences are the output jack and the LCD on the top horn.
  19. Quatschmacher
    Apologies if this has already been covered but this invention (and totally unique way of creating MIDI from bass and guitar signals) just made me cream my pants. http://www.industrialradio.com.au/index.html
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    Might be worth trying other types too as some are brighter than others. Eg, EB Cobalt flats are very bright, almost roundwound in tone.
  21. Quatschmacher
    There’s a similar thing going on in the saxophone world with old Selmer Mark VI and SBA horns going for stupid money. Part of that is that lots of great players played and recorded on them (at the time they were the pinnacle of sax building) and so everyone has that sound in their head from all those golden age recordings. I too fell foul of the hype years ago and bought one for an extortionate amount. (Amazingly I managed to sell it at a big loss.) It did sound lovely but the tuning was ropey compared to newer horns. Undoubtedly there are gems out there from that era that will sound better than a lot of modern stuff. However, Selmers are still hand made (at least the annealing process of the bell section is) and so still vary from example to example. The trick to finding a good one is simply to test lots out side by side.
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    It was very much a click bait story but quite interesting.
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    The one in this story turned out to be a very good fake (as determined by an auctioneer from Christie’s after its owner took it there).
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    Came across these just now and they are interesting. http://www.patchblocks.com/content/6-patchblock
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    Sadly the wrong end of the country from me otherwise I’d be on this in a flash - been after one for a while.
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