Woodinblack

Yep - I think we need to add a sticky for this one https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/454725-harley-bentons-are-going-up-in-price/ https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/456603-wow-didn’t-realise-these-had-investment-potential/

OK, I worked out what should be there and it makes sense. It gives you 1. front humbucker, back humbucker 2. front humbucker, back single 3. front single, back humbucker 4. front single, back single. I drew it out but it is not that neat! But here it is anyway if it helps

Apart from not great wiring, the top image (especially combined with the wiring diagram) is clear enough to work from. So there is a white, black, green and red wire from each pickup, which is normal for humbuckers (normal colours, but for extra fun each manufacturer uses the colours for different things), and a metal connector (which they don't - that goes to earth). What is actually missing on your plug - do you have the same colours used? Do you have a photo of how yours actually is?

I know what you mean. In my 20s I had a beautiful 12/6 doubleneck ibanez (their copy of the Gibson 1250 but bolt on) in white, with a hard case. Loved that thing, played it all the time and as a rush fan it was perfect. GF at the time spent the rent money as she just thought we had a glut of money, so I had to sell it. Still a little bitter and now 30 years later!

It would be a bit tricky to add a bump counter, and also not really in everyones interest. It seems you want one to check if people are really keen to sell or not, the only real advantage to that is to see if they will go down a bit more. I would say you can get the same information from just asking them. With changes we put in recently (not fully implimented), if an item isn't bumped for a while it will be closed, so if you see something thats still for sale you can tell it has been actively updated reasonably recently. Not sure that having a bump limit helps anyone - if you have something that isn't a cheap fender P bass then it might take a bit longer to sell, but I cant see what restricting those oportunities does for anyone.

Well, she is getting a very common visitor to these pages! But yes, do everything if you are a kid, while you can

As mentioned, when you book you know who you were booking with so the poster will know. I know all couriers are going a bit slow at the moment. There is a thirdparty tracking page https://www.17track.net/en which I have found often better than couriers own tracking websites

I am primarily a 5 string ibanez player. I have short hands too. Never felt the P very comfortable. The J is ok, if you like fenders, but in the end the lack of a 5th string gets me every time and I come back to something like an ibanez 5 string (I also have a Maruszczyk that has a neck which is a copy of an SR 5 string spacing!).

Well, if noone has one, or someone has but doesn't want to take it apart, post the picture here, maybe we can help.

Well, it does work as a ramp fine, it just annoyed me that it couldn't be parallel with both pickups. Its not far out but not right. It has a bit of double sided tape on the back

Its a block of wood. Which on the multiscales doesn't quite fit between the pickups

The footswitch functions can be set in the menu, by default it goes up and wraps round the ones you have set. Or you can put another few footswitches in the expression socket. Or midi obviously.

did they not send a wiring diagram?

Like all those things, you have to try them. I bought my Squier CV70 bass when I went into a (sadly since closed) localish store, and tried that, a MiM standard P and an American Standard. The Squier was clearly better than the MiM, and it sounded as nice as the american, although the neck on the american felt better (but no contest on the price). I came out with the CV and played it for a year in the current group, before realising that however I did it, I wasn't made for a P and it was too much of a pain being a 4 string! However, I am aware that maybe other Mexican fenders could be better, and other squiers could be worse (I had a mexican geddy lee, that was a lot better than the shop MiM, and equal to the CV).

I didn't find that. Clearly the FI can do great synth sounds about as well as you are going to get from a bass driven thing, but ultimately I find the SY more giggable. Probably because if I wanted what the FI could do I would find it orders of magnitude easier to just use a keyboard.

TBH, when I looked last week, I did a search for bongos, there was the ejyptian mist one and that one, which was listed as sold. Now I look today it is not listed as sold - not sure if it has been unsold? Is it an old model? it has the newer nut, unlike the green/grey one.

Looking at that connection it appears to be just a right angled jack to a straight jack with a T off to another socket. You could just knock up another cable from the spares box in a couple of minutes. As long as the form fitting plug at the backbeat end doesn't stop you doing that (and I am sure one of those really thin right angled plugs would be fine).

Sorry

Alex lifesons new group, Envy of none. Not very rush like, pretty Curve or SPC ECOish.

Oh did that once. Although I broke the big one too. Hope the drugs don't fade out too soon!

oh yes, I know what you mean in that case. I got the future impact, fantastic effects and stuff but I didn't have the time to really use it, so got rid of it.

I was just saying in the states, it would probably be cheaper to get one from thomman where they are under 3k, as if you buy one in NY and bring it home you are still liable for vat and import duties unless you want to illegally smuggle it in.

I have a very short delay (and I mean really short) on as a permenant effect on the HXFX, you can't really hear it as such but it fattens up the sound quite a bit and adds a bit of presence. The rest of the effects are selected as required per the song.

As an addition to what programming actually means, the way you generally use it is like this. Fiddle with the knobs, when you like the sound you get, press menu and exit at the same time. It then asks you what patch number you want to write it to (I can't remember how many there are but certainly at least 128) then you turn the knob next to the display to get to the number you want, then press the knob in and it writes it (or exit and it doesn't). If you press menu you can change the display type or name the patches. Once you have a patch you can obviously just change the knobs to change the sound and it shows you on the display that you are not currently aligned with that patch any more. Pressing the right button cycles through the patches, pressing the left turns the effect on and off. Holding the button locks the sound like the SY1 main button. Its a bit wider than the SY1, but the sockets are at the top, so it doesn't take more sideways space. Its a bit cramped at the top though. Strangely it takes 2 AA batteries, but still a 9v adapter as usual.

The three knobs at the top aren't always the same, so the resonance is only available on some voices. I think it just clears up what each bit does, like the range on some patches. There is more variation I think, although the basic voices are pretty similar. The only time you really use the menu is if you want to put a label for a patch. I loved the SY-1. I love the SY-200, I think it is a logical progression for an SY-1 for a cover band where you have some pre-determined ideas of what you want.