Woodinblack

Not surprised. Noone wants to hear U2 songs!

Agreed - it is widely acknowledged* the SR1605 is actually the best bass ever made * by me.

I think the War Room EP was the best one they did. Not that keen on the 10 remixes of the same song ones! Would certainly like to see them live.

100% with you on this one

Or more what used to be (and luckily I don't think as much) wrong with music shops.

you can just split the cable, or if you want to be fancy.. https://www.joness.com/gr300/UX-20.htm

Just going on the info on the net, not having one or any special knowledge of these things. 1) You can apply processing to just some strings, the old GK you could apply effects to individual strings but not different effects to different strings. the manual is here though, so should say: https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/SY-1000_reference_eng01_W.pdf 2) unlikely. Again the manual will say, or maybe the VGUitars website would be a good place to ask 3) you can on the Vb-99 so would seem odd if you couldn't on the SY 4) not sure if it is an editor - there is software for it on the boss website. I remember the GR55 had a better 3rd party editor 5) the only digital audio output, yes. and 6b, don't know. 6) there are a few companies I have seen over the years that make custom pickups. There is a japanese company that does customs. Yamaha do one, as do fishman, don't know what their spacing is. doesn't the GK actually cover up to 12mm anyway? I am not sure. My friend does, but not commercially, as it is fiddly and he gets bored easily

I think it is nice as an accent, or in a song, but it is harsh and tiring to listen to when used all the time. Pretty much like talking in capitals would be! I would also say it isn't the hardest technique to master, it is just another techniqie.

To be fair that gives you quite a few songs! I think I would try the replacing the truss rod thing, just because I have no idea how to do it, I am not very good, but don't have much to lose!

I used to do surface mount electronics back in the day for a living, but don't have the tools for it at home, so I tend to avoid it

Thing is with the VB, you can pick them up cheap and all you need is the gk pickup. If your VB goes badly or you want to upgrade, roland / boss still make (have just released) gk pickup compatible systems. Variax parts are near impossible to get, so if you really like the VB and it works, get yourself the SY1000.

Although I am hot on the email thing, I don't expect a business to reply to me outside work hours. My wife runs a shop, it is hard for her to not work outside normal hours but she gets herself stressed about work and doesn't unwind if she doesnt. I might be contacting a few of these people. I have an old '79 Gibson 'the paul' which was resprayed by its previous owner in glossy varnish and slightly darker (which I dislike - I loved that it was plain matte wood. but I got it cheap, so have been thinking, maybe I can just get it refinished in TV Yellow!

The only bit you need is the variax bridge and enough room for all the electronics (which won't be small). If you used your own piezo bridge you would need to do your own impedance matching, or need a separate preamp which would be a bit awkward (a friend did it for a Roland gr system)

If you are an 80s pop band (rather than say NWOBHM) it doesn't seem that much of a stretch request, she was around in the 80s

Yeh, a bit better. Still not a favourite but it is better. Maybe it is just style related, as this sounds fine:

no, I have nothing against many of the tones of a ric. That just sounds muffled and lifeless. I am mostly immune from getting one, ok, ow they have a 5 string but it is still too much for me and apparently heavy? yeh, one of those things once you listen they are good. Still couldn't say it's something I would listen too much but it is fun to play. I would say peg is a bit more of a pub song than josie (hadn't heard it before the suggestion) pretty good, but there are only 5 of us!

Yes, I have seen his thanks, I always see his. I would say he is more a rush fan than anything else, that is what he does most (and also he says he is), also Tony Levin. I saw that after another one.. Which was good for learning the song, although I find it more comfortable to play up the neck but watching what he plays I could translate it further up. Its amazing how we interpret things. I was thinking watching that video what a horrible bass sound he has on that. normally his sound is really good (and I had watched a few others before that, with one of his jazzes, the gould and a status), with any of his other basses, but that is horrible. I guess that is why there are other basses!

been doing Josie by Steely dan as it was the new guitarists choice for a song in my other band. Not really familiar with steely dan (although it is one of my wifes favourites), and can't see why anyone would want to listen to that in a pub but it is interesting to learn if nothing else!

Well, thats a shame, that would have been an easy fix! OK, its hard to see on a picture and the layout I can see on the net is a bit different from the circuit I can see on line, and obviously I am looking straight down, and I don't want to offend by being wrong or 'teaching to suck eggs' but those orange capacitors, I assume they are the normal ones where the cathode (the minus) is marked on the side, some of them the mark seems to line up with what is marked with a + on the layout I can see. I mean one of the ones near the power is, but the other two are in a different place. Although if that is the case I would think you would find out quite quickly! Could that be it?

Indeed - streaming is good, its just making money from them I am not sure I can see. I mean my favourite artists I could pay a few quid to go and see them live, but if I want to see them on the computer I can just go and watch on youtube. Maybe I suppose if they start removing that content. I agree with that, but music used to cost a lot of money, so then it went to streaming, and now you have to stream several million runs of your single to get enough for a sandwich. Its a commodity and it has got really cheap. I am not sure that it is going to be possible for a group to get a load of people to pay enough money to make streaming that profitable. And yes, there are limits which matter for different types of music, some of it is purely the event. Yeh, well I am just in a cover band, I don't really see that there is an option for that in a digital way. I mean we aren't even that good, but we are a good party band. That isn't (and can't) translate well into an online form, so maybe it is time for me to accept that was fun while it lasted and now it is over, and if I am lucky maybe it will come back.

Is it the JKM big bass drive? If so that switch looks nothing like this. Well, the left and middle does, but not the output!

Dawsons did have an online business. I bought my 2605 from there last year (well, year before last).

I used to be a car journey away from PMT in bristol, or Absolute in Poole (although didn't often go there as it is a pain to get to). Now it might as well be the other side of the country!

We don't have anything like that around here. I would go and see it. We have quite a reasonable sized originals scene, although having formed into a collective it is a bit cliquey (no way of avoiding that), but it is largely guitarist/piano singer songwriters doing angsty stinky poo, punk/oi stuff or rock. Nothing that I would want to go and see. There is a guy who is a great guitarist, but that is just instrumental so although it is clever and very good, in the same way as Satriani, I can admire the skill without it really speaking to me. But all of this is very nice and all, but there isn't room in a town for more than one or two venues doing original music, which means the other venues would probably stop doing it. With fewer venues, there are going to be fewer oportunities.

Yeh, maybe it is there for that sort of music. We have a local venue that does that, it was doing ok before the lockdown, although not like the sort of audience you get for a decent covers band. It would be nice to think that. But as soon as this goes back if it does, I don't think that is going to be one of the lasting effects.