Quatschmacher

Yep, crazy money, which is why I sold my Chromatron when I did. Had people chewing my arm off to buy it at £400

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/logue/logue-cl-1-no-more-midi-mapping

Yes, sorry, it is a bit of a first-world problem. I didn’t mean it to be demeaning to anyone. Much of it has come about because I beta test pedals and get to hang on to them as a thank you for the work I have done. The “issue” with that is that these aren’t always pedals I would have considered buying for myself and I feel a bit funny about selling them, especially as I might get asked to test out further firmware updates later on. When I dug out the EQ2 the other night, I found a MIDI bug and reported it. This is what I have, some of these might end up on the chopping block (bold ones are already listed): Panda Audio Future Impact (x2) Source Audio C4 Source Audio Lunar Source Audio Spectrum Source Audio Collider Source Audio Ultrawave Source Audio Ventris Source Audio Nemesis Source Audio Atlas Source Audio Aftershock Source Audio ZIO MXR Vintage Bass Octave Zvex Mastotron MXR Bass Envelope Filter Mu-Tron Microtron IV Sadowsky SB-2 Source Audio Hub (x2) Morningstar ML10X Morningstar MC6 Pro MORTRIX (Not for sale obviously)

I sold that one quite some time ago, I’m afraid. The things I’ve recently listed really are things I’ve never touched and am unlikely to ever have done so. A few things I’m looking at have become redundant as I’ve been spending the last three years working on my keyboard chops, so the synthy stuff is better covered on keys. (I’ll still keep the FI though as I love it.) I’m finding myself in a similar situation with synths. There are some which are ram-packed with features which I end up not using much; but I seem to get the most enjoyment out of the stuff that has a simple architecture and a great sound. I currently have a Juno 106 on loan from a friend and it’s so immediate, simple and fun to play that its limitations become an asset. It’ll be a wrench when he takes it back to sell it (he has two and needs to downsize).

Have you submitted those thoughts to them. Roger is very active on Talkbass and The Gear Page and listens to user feedback/requests.

The beauty of just packing them up is that they are not gone; if you miss something, it’s easy to dig it out again. I’m looking for the sweet spot of having things that will inspire to play and write music without swamping me with so many options that I never get beyond tweaking. Don’t get me wrong, I love designing sounds and that’s a nice way to be creative when musical ideas aren’t forthcoming, but I don’t want that to be all I end up doing.

Thanks. Yes, there are a few of us Sheffielders on here. There’s at least one I know I won’t ever get rid of: Future Impact as I did a lot of work on the feature set of the pedal in everything from v3.00 onwards. Will likely keep an analogue octaver and analogue envelope filters. The C4 is quite dear to me too as during lockdown I created and shared hundreds of sounds for it, which got me noticed by Source Audio and I’ve been beta testing for them since then. I’ll keep a reverb, delay and some kind of phaser. Everything else is up for consideration. I really don’t ever use much distortion so those will likely go. Ultrawave is already listed and I might list the Aftershock at some point. For the moment, I’ve listed two of the ones I’ve not ever really played in the 2-3 years I’ve had them. A couple more fall into that category, but those are ones I’ve never even played yet, as opposed to the ones I had played but wasn’t motivated to play further. Is there anything in particular you were looking for?

I’ve been feeling hugely overwhelmed by my pedals of late. Every one that gets added seems to exponentially increase the choices available and I’m finding that quite debilitating. And this coming from someone who is co-designing a MIDI controller. I’ve decided to pack everything away for a while and see what I end up missing. Think it’s probably time to shift a few things that I have never really used too (so keep an eye on the classifieds as there should be some nice bits of gear appearing soon). I’ll just get one thing out at a time for continuing testing Mortrix. This is my very minimalist setup now.

Livestream has had the audio edited to remove some vocal artefacts.

My favourite Dan album. Pretzel Logic is a close second.

Do try. They did reply so hopefully it’s been sorted by now.

Not sure. I’ll email them to get it fixed.

Live now: https://www.youtube.com/live/xo5WE3RwCVI?feature=share

Tune in tonight.

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I wasn’t talking about palm muting, though this can also be used if desired. I was talking about regular string muting which is a part of normal playing. i.e. how you stop unplayed strings from ringing out and how you bring a played string to rest. So a combination of having left-hand fingers resting lightly on unplayed strings and lifting a finger from a fretted note cleanly whilst quickly putting down other fingers lightly on that string to prevent any note-off noise. Then in the right hand, a combination of thumb/finger anchoring on unplayed strings and the Gary Willis right-hand finger muting technique whereby after you’ve plucked a note with one finger, the alternate finger is placed on that string to mute the note. Using all these things together where needed does vastly improve how the FI plays. Not only that, they are all useful tools in normal playing to help control note length, articulation and clean playing (no unwanted notes ringing out).