tauzero

Christmas Day featured me giving an interesting gift to Mrs Zero - a Vangoa EWI-100, which is an electronic wind instrument which can also be used as a MIDI controller. Can be set to flute or sax fingering (Mrs Zero doesn't play either but has messed around with a recorder, a penny whistle, and an ocarina) and has ten internal sounds which are more or less recognisable facsimiles of the instruments that they're supposed to be emulating. It's a similar concept to the Akai EWI but £40 instead of £400 (and not as sophisticated and probably somewhat flimsier). We had a quick play with the MIDI side of things and it works fine.

There's a Roland accordionist who goes to an open mic that I go to. The sounds he uses on his left hand are never conventional bass - I think there would be plenty of room for an actual bass there too.

If it's a good band, but she's a poor keys player, maybe it would be improved by getting her off keys. Can't understand how it can be a good band with a poor keys player though.

I think there is what you are terming a standard digital streaming format (although digital streaming has a different meaning) - SPDIF would enable signals to be kept in the digital domain through both digital effects processing and amplification. In the case of the Line 6 Helix, and I'm sure others, there's an SPDIF output that could be used to feed digital data through to a power amp. It would mean keeping analogue effects at the front end of the effects chain though.

And this is why Fender should have made headless basses.

You could be the rock equivalent of the Portsmouth Sinfonia.

Not a universal rule. In fact, I can't think of any bands that I know well to which it applies.

I may change my name to Ian Bertrand Andrew Neil Edward Zephaniah. Or maybe Harry Oliver Howard Neil Edward Roger.

I don't think I've ever had two of something to decide which one is "the one", except for a Zoom MS-60B and as one of them has a missing knob and a non-functional quadrant of the circular switch then I can safely say that the other one is "the one".

There's glory for you.

They're great little things. Life is even easier if you create patches using the (free!) Tonelib-Zoom program.

I've been following the pictures on the NS Design website: It's not that I can't get the Omni into position, it's that it has a tendency to rotate about its long axis.

A little delayed, this one. Went down to London to pick this up. It has been advertised on BC but I bought it, plus the frame strap system, via Ebay. It's a little tatty round the edges, no major damage though. The strings on it are NS strings, which have a good feel to them. I've tried the boomerang strap and the frame strap system - can't get the hang of the boomerang system yet, I'm hoping that I will with further practice. I have a WAV-4, so I will also play with the tripod stand on that.

Whitney Houston - Climb Every Woman.

"More of it's life was spent with..." is, for one thing, a misplaced apostrophe, and for another, if you were merely to substitute "more" for "most", as you appear to be suggesting, it would be a comparative with nothing to compare against. 3/10, must try harder.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/most

27 x 2 = 54, and 58 > 54, so he's owned it more than half of its life.

You don't expect me to remember who posted a video do you? I mean, breakfast is a bit of a mystery to me. Anyroadup, did you study the body when you posted it?

There was just one capacitor difference between the two - Aionfx's clone kit mentions this: https://aionfx.com/project/azure-analog-chorus/

What are your eventual intentions as regards gigging? Have any of you gigged before? If you're going to be a trio playing in pubs, a reasonable vocal PA (or vocal plus guitar) and backline (either bass and guitar or bass only) would handle your needs.

Isn't it dents that that works on, as it expands the crushed fibres, rather than scratches? Not saying that it wouldn't work but it might be a case of expanding the wood with the wet cloth and heat so the bottom of the scratch is at the level of the rest of the body, then sanding the scratch out.

Marketing guff on the back of two ghastly instruments. No ta.

Expired or sold.

You may have watched the Youtube video of the spinning guitar neck. At about 9 minutes in, you get a fairly short view of the body that he's 3D printed, which looks quite kewl. Might be worth a look. It's not a gappy hexagons structure, it's solid, seems to be in four sections maybe, and is the face of a multilayered plywood body.