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Bearing in mind that is very old tech, I would think the helix or zooms would do it without raising a sweat.

Saw placebo a few years back. The bass player changed bass every song. From one thunderbird to a different thunderbird. I didn't realise there was so much variations between thunderbirds, either way, they all sounded the same.

Well, yes, when the stomp XL came out I was expecting like an LT in half the box, which would be perfect - I did love what the LT could do, but with the need to have the synth pedals too, it made it too big. Seems that after getting a big jump on the competition with the helix, they are slipping back a bit.

I do like that as a look (apart from not play 4 strings), although the price would be a 'you *** kidding me?'!

I don't need that many effects, although I have often wanted a 7th switchable! I think if I was playing the guitar the Plethora would be more interesting to me, I would be using more modulations, and then maybe a plethora and a stomp would work where I would just be using the stomp for distortion / overdrive and eqs. I would be unhappy if my HX died. I do worry about that one, as every 4th time or so I turn it on it says 'firmware failure', but then I turn it off and on again (I am a professional, I know the tricks!) and it works fine. I had a Helix LT, but that was too big for me - although if I was, as is my dream, gigging with the chapman stick, it would be ideal. I don't actually undertstand why the plethora doesn't do distortions - I mean in my last band I started with a TCBG250 combo that had toneprints, and that had distortion.

I would say that most basses from most manufacturers look a bit like a fender. Even the foderas being discussed here look pretty fendery, I would say that most of my basses sort of look a bit like fenders while only one of them actually is a fender, and that is a mustang.

For me at the plethoras price, I would want it to have the options of drives / compressors / eq etc. And if it did it would be great, 5 effects of whatever type, that is close to how I use the Helix HXFX (6 effects of whatever type, plus and always on and routing).

Looked like the steinberg software was good, I tried to download it for my mac but failed as its login process was so convoluted I failed to log in! I will try the iPad software as I don't have to go through their site!

Same here, the words above the buttons are what I need. The plethora would be a great thing too with more effect types

Yes, sometimes it doesn't update. Normally does if you go to the next section and then back again.

I haven't actually had a chance to update yet, my pedalboard is out with my gigging stuff and practice and gigging has been a bit light

Clicking on the Jake TB just changes the pickups to the TB pickups, the rest of the configurator works exactly the same way except you can't pick a different pickup.

Does the configurator not work, or just the configurator when you click on Jake TB in the jake selector? Hmm.. seems I can never configure anything less than €2k Also odd you can't pick multiscale on the configurators

The synths on the line 6 pedals are nothing special, or the octaves. The reverbs and choruses are better though. and I like having the parallel distortion on just the high frequencies. having said that, the reason I prefer the Helix HXFX is just the layout and control, rather than anything else.

I think the wood on the ying/yang one is nice, and the bottom one of the list looks like an ibanez apart from the knob position and lack of rounding of the edges. I am sure it feels nicer on the leg as it is less pointy. The top one is way too 70s decor for me, but that probably isn't a problem if you didn't live through the 70s! I am sure they are very nice, they certainly look well made and I am sure they play nice, but they don't appeal to me much and the control position of every one of them just really puts me off - like they were just put where they landed without thought (and I am sure that is not true). But the fact is, they are a lot of money and people are buying them who have a choice of what to buy so that tells me that they are probably worth having when money isn't your main restriction

Its just the Jake with thunderbird pickups isn't it - doesn't the normal Jake configurator not work for you?

Without getting on phone war thing, which I am not interested in, current sales are 50/50. Current iPhone vs Android distribution is set to be 75/25 to android, however the majority of android phones are really basic cheap phones people bought just for making phone calls that were never updated (and never will be) who will never want to adjust their zoom with anyway. So if you are writing software for a smartphone you will be targeting an OS that a lot of android phones won't have, so you will actually be much closer to parity. TBH, if i was zoom, I wouldn't be targeting smartphones, I would be targeting tablets, and people interested in music things will have a tendancy to be on iOS. However, if I was zoom, once I was happy with the iOS app working, I would then certainly be looking to do an android version - I mean it isn't actually an audio application, it is a 'moving objects around and sending data' application that you can do on most things. So maybe they will when they get round to it - do they not do versions of their software for older hardware on android?

Middle age? He is closer to pensioner than middle age!

I suspect it would look a little odd because of the size, but not as odd as a P pickup. It wouldn't sound the same as a jazz pickup on a jazz as it would be in a different position, probably more like an original P.

Would a jazz pickup not fit there with a lot less work?

Hardly, you said that it works on a functional mobile phone, so that is ideal!

Never noticed an issue, but then as previously, I pretty well never adjust a strap once i have it how I like. Plus as it needs a screwdriver to adjust, that is probably just as well!

The after looks good, and yes a bit weird that they only did one pickup, both or neither would have been expected. interested to hear how it sounds when it's done

Yes, I would buy the 1005sms if it had nordy pickups on it, I love my 1505ms, a shorter scale one would be ideal

That would have been factory spec