Woodinblack

I tried that. Turns out it isn't as impressive as it sounds!

I take mine as a backup, although it is not as pretty as yours!

Haven't had that problem. Mind you, that is because one jack is the wireless sender, and the other one is the lead to the bass. You could always put the thing round the other way so any tension on the cable pushed it in more?

Been in a similar position when we were at a wedding gig, and in a part time bit one of the wedding party wanted to have a go at playing something as he was apparently quite good (and we know how well that works), who was badgering the guitarist to borrow his guitar. He would not lend it any everyone was doing the 'oh its just one song, we will be careful', but he had his 59 reissue les paul custom that was over 2k and there was no way he was lending it out, and I didn't blame him, but it seemed others did. Just made for a bad atmosphere for a bit.

I think it is different lending a mate a bass (which I would do), than lending a stranger your bass at a gig because they didn't prepare well, or damaged theirs.

I have never carried spare strings for a bass, as I have never broken any on a gig. But I always carry a spare bass. If something goes I can swap it mid song and check what went wrong in the break. I wouldn't want to restring a bass mid song!

Same here - come in, set up, sound check, then have a break and then start the gig. We can't control the people in there, it is a pub, they are open all day. It is in effect for them, still part of the show

Its a good bass. String spacing is a little wide for me and the neck weight isn't great but it is really fun bass to play, and it sounds good gigged. I think it does need better pots though, I should do that!

Not specifically a short scale 4 string BEAD, but I have a short scale 5 string as a BEADG and that is fine. That is on a 30" TM35

How whelmed were you expecting to be by a tuner?

So did a back to back compare. Where you can select the same sort of thing, the sounds are broadly similar, in that there is no quality increase or anything. Sounds very much like the same engine that powers both of them. There are additional sounds though. Unlike the SY-1, not every type has the same number of variations. So the number of variations is Lead = 30, Pad = 20, String = 14, Bell = 12, Organ = 13, Bass = 11, Dual = 9, Sweep = 9, Noise = 4, SFX = 22, Seq = 18, Arp = 9 The controls are Tone pitch/resonance depth, and there are the controls for bass volume/effect volume. These are saved in the patch though so switching to the patch doesn't use the current levels. It loses the bass / guitar switch on the back as it is now in the menu. The switch on the right, you can set it to do what you want but by default, the hold function is a bit different than on the SY-1 which is useful for my purposes. On the SY-1, when the effect is on, pressing the button holds the note / effect you are playing indefinately. On the SY-200, pressing the button changes to the next patch up. Pressing and holding the button puts it into a hold mode (indicated by it flashing) without changing the patch, and when it is in this mode, pressing the button holds what you are playing like the SY-1. However, as it is now two buttons, pressing the on/off turns the synth off but this is independant of the hold. So if you turn it off while hold is active, it will still be active when you turn it back on. If it was actually a holding a note, it carries on playing that same note it was holding before. Seems pretty useful. All in all, it is a logical progression of what the SY-1 was and if you were happy with the sound of the SY-1 you will be happy with the sound of this, but just get a bit more flexability.

No, but it would be funny! I am now just comparing them back to back. It is quite a bit wider, although not much longer (apart from the jacks being at the back, not the side). And one thing I thought was odd, the SY200 runs on 3xAA batteries (included) instead of a PP3.

Well, I shall be moving on my SY-1 once I have copied my standard settings into the SY200 presets.

I sold my FI to get one of these. No question about it, the FI is a proper synth and way more flexable than this, this is like a synth effect pedal, but for me, in a cover band, this is kind of what I need. I have an SY-1 and use it quite a lot. This is an SY1+, more flexabilty for sounds and ultimately, patches, so you can switch between one sound and another without leaning down to change the knobs. Although I tend to 'wing it' when playing and use whatever I feel like, I now have a couple of specific tracks that have an SY-1 patch that I have to use with them that I like and the band likes. To program these in, and just change to patch <whatever> to get to them is worth it for me. Although playing around with it now, I found a perfect patch for perfect strangers, by deep purple. Which is a shame, as we don't do that!

Oh looky here!

The dad of the drummer, who sees all our gigs told me at the last gig that the sound was terrible in the first half, bass and drums too loud, but it was fine in the second half, so whatever I did was good. Nice to know. Shame really as I didn't do anything, and the drums weren't mic'd anyway!

I have done Dont fear the reaper, Solsbury hill and <shudder>sylvia (which I hated every time). I have also done another girl, another planet, which I am not bothered about either way. If there is something i would want to do that wasn't prog I could probably do it in my current group.

Their range still seems pretty good and quite a lot of stuff is cheaper than other places although the last couple of things I wanted were out of stock and had a 4 week wait which is far too long with someone of my attention span. I notice they have some things missing. For a long time, when I was really considering it they had the Ric 4003s/5s for £1650 when the cheapest UK price was £2k (well, it was 1300 before the added the vat which sounded almost reasonable) and I was tempted, but in the end, it seemed a lot for something like that, whether it was cheaper or not. But now I look they don't have them at all, so maybe there has been changes over what they can get and they were just clearing them?.

It is of course possible that they didn't know they had it back until after your call, ie, it was already in incoming but hadn't been processed yet so wasn't in the system.

Yeh, I had a keyboard player having a fit during a gig (very noticably to the audience) because he wasn't loud enough. I had spent a considerable amount of time before hand trying to get him to join in wiht the sound check but he said it would be fine. Then he kept trying to interrupt while I was playing to change teh volume. I had little sympathy.

Yes. 0Hz is just direct current, basically if you were at 0Hz it would be the same as sticking a battery across a speaker. It can't do anything with that apart from heat up and eventually melt. Just because something is marked as Full range, there are limits of human hearing where there is no point (and quite a lot of reason not to) trying to reproduce the frequencies you have coming in, so they will all have LPF and HPF as part of the design.

Absolutely they do, but they might not have it where you want it to be. Very few systems go down to DC as it can be a bit damaging.

Is that ever the case? Oh that is a bit poor!

Its not politics, its just a fact of life now. It used to be simple, we voted to disconnect from the outside world and now things don't work well. This delay is hardly hardly thommans fault this delay, it was our choice, and they are making the best of a bad situation, a lot of companies no longer deal with us, but they still do. We can try and pretend there is another reason but their isn't.

I saw that on facebook as I am looking for stuff in dec, but I am busy for the november ones! Still, there are enough people around.