Jean-Luc Pickguard

£200 is a very good price for one in good condition. It's lucky I didn't see it as I've run out of hiding paces for new gear.

The SY-1 was delivered this afternoon. Its in mint condition well packed and in the original box, but no manual or boss sticker. I downloaded the one page pdf manual and put it on my iPad, but I've found that the controls are pretty much self explanatory. I've been wanting to play synth from guitar since I bought a Casio MG-510 back in the late 80s - which reminds me I must dig it out of the loft and list it on reverb. The casio has noticable latency which made it difficult to play with any groove or feeling I ended up using it mainly to program lines into the computer in step time. Having subsequently played and owned various guitar / bass synth pedals over the years including an akai deep impact and EHX B9, I've never been tempted to keep one longer than a few weeks. The SY-1 was cheap enough to take a punt on with a view to possibly selling it on but I think it might be a keeper. Playing a squier bullet mustang guitar and jaguar short scale bass through it was a bit of a revelation. The way it responds to my playing is amazing even without having to modify my sloppy playing technique. Layering a convincing organ sound over clean guitar was so simple to achieve. The fx loop looks like a useful feature so I'll try that with a fuzz & a klon clone in the loop and then feed the pedal output into a zoom MS50G for a bit of reverb etc to see how that sounds when I've found enough cables.

some people don’t know when they have a good thing. In unmolested condition this would have been worth way more (excuse the pun) than a hundred quid.

If its up to Yoko they'd probably only be allowed to call themselves the Beatles if they include her in John's place doing her rendition of a howler monkey with sudden trauma to the nuts.

I agree 100%

Townshend & Daltrey don't have any problem in billing themselves as the Who, so I don't see why not.

Collection on London only which would have been okay for me as I was almost tempted and would probably have snapped it up if it was still silver sparkle, but the pics are low res and I can't tell whether there's a crack or two showing on the back of the headstock. If its just been oversprayed with red car paint from a rattle can, it might come off easily with acetone and reveal the original silver sparkle finish underneath assuming it wasn't stripped first. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194962269630

Any bass that looks like it was designed later than about 1967 has a harder time getting my attention. I'm not keen on active electronics either, or anything with more than four strings.

Found an SY-1 at such a good price it would have been rude not to snap it up, so it is due to arrive on my doorstep tomorrow. I'm not sure how it'll get any use in the band I'm in as we do mostly 60s covers, so it could end up on my guitar pedalboard rather than my bass board. Failing that I'll get to play with it for a few weeks before letting it go to a new owner without making a loss. I didn't really get on with a EHX B9 organ machine when I owned one briefly, so I'm hoping the organs on the sy-1 will tickle my pickle. Do any SY-1 owners here have any tips? Does it work better certain inputs - such as a tele bridge pickup rather than a humbucker neck pickup on guitar? Or the Jazz pickup of a PJ bass for example? Has anyone flipped the baseplate to put velcro on without affecting the rubber foot?

Like this?

That's nasty 🤮

How would you describe your favourite tone from one of your basses, but without using any words related to audio? My JMJ mustang going through a Roland microcube RX using the fliptop emulation, is like a big thick slice of the stickiest, gooiest chocolate fudge cake.

Bolting on a replacement body will be an improvement over the plywood original even if it hadn't been chopped.

[quote]'Neck will be removed and packaged with body for posting.'[/quote] 'cause you wouldn't want to risk anything happening to it

I tried that when I had sore fingertips. I drank a couple of pints of the stuff. I didn't notice any change in my fingers but I had blurred vision for a week.

Just the thing for playing this song

Didn't this bass feature on the cover of Gentle Giant's 1971 album acquiring the taste? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiring_the_Taste#/media/File:Acquiring_the_Taste_front_cover.jpg

Back in 1982 when I was saving up for my first Fender bass I dismissed mustangs as 'not a proper fender' and was only interested in getting a precision. It wasn't until about 25 years later that I realised I much prefer mustangs.

I wasn't sure whether I preferred a white or sunburst vintage pro thunderbird, so I have both. If I don't look I have no way of knowing which one I'm playing as apart from the colour they are identical including the strings and setup. I also have a couple of mustangs, an off-white CIJ and a blue JMJ which sound fairly similar but each feels totally different to the other.

No, apart from the Fender mustangs, a couple of epiphone vintage pro thunderbirds, a Guild starfire, a hohner B2A, a danelectro longhorn, and a few others that I can't see from where I'm sitting.

Nice example of the 'plywood coverup' style of sunburst

Looks hacked - it redirects to a scummy scam page

I also owned a banjo, however it sold on Reverb over the weekend and was delivered to its new owner this morning. Blummin’ loud things banjos; they’re great for annoying the missus so much that she’s relieved when I put it down and play a bass instead.