Woodinblack

I guess my head must adjust for that, but also my angle is a lot shallower (ie, I am lookng more at the edge and feeling across). But enjoyment is what it is about so it is what works for everyone. I know I couldn't cope without the front marks on my chapman stick (as I have just put them back in), but then that has a lack of well, side, let alone side dots!

Why is that? My most commonly used basses don't have fret markers, and I don't notice, because I never look at the fretboard when I am playing, just the top side of the neck so I only see the fretmarkers when I am not playing, when it doesn't really matter. Or is it just for asthetic reasons?

No, if those were the sort of things I was looking for, that is the sort of order I would do it. Which is odd, as most keyboard players I have played with in the last few years wouldn't know a USB-C from a mains lead. The ones that play keyboard and do know, don't tend to be playing live! Indeed - that was always what I was told, and to be honest in trying, in the majority case that was not entirely unjustified.

Our band soundchecks with two. Brown Eyed Girl intro for the sax, Money for nothing for the vocals.

was fairly impressed, the wedding we just did, which was obviously after the food, the bride danced to every single song. We almost ran out of songs, playing about 3 hours, and she didn't miss a beat.

I would get your money back, that isn't a very good gold colour at all!

We do a dual sound check really. Our levels are probably pretty close relative to what we want so we start doing a song, singer wanders out and listens, gives some overall levels, I wander out (I am wireless), get most things set up, then we do a song where both me and the singer sing, and he (with a long lead) says whether it is ok. Then I make sure the sax and guitar are at the same sort of level, and then we go.

Facebook market? I thiink your range is wider than mine, I can only find one sold in Bristol. Ebay is stupid, half the ones on there cost more than the full price, but I guess that was always the way of eBay!

Where are they cheap? I was looking round to see what to sell mine for, but they seem to be all overpriced on ebay (ie, I wouldn't buy one for that price, which means I couldn't sell one for that price!)

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!