Woodinblack

Does it matter, does anyone actually use those things for anything other than decoration?

Yep. I love it. There are many annoyances and irritations on the way although unlike some above, almost all of my gigs are within 5 miles and pay money, today being a far away one for at almost 30 miles but it was nice and sunny.

Played a gig today on a truck with a proper sound crew and good equipment. Connected up, the sound guy said that there was a lot of noise coming through my rig, and gave me headphones but I couldn't hear it. I assumed it was my wireless so decided to go wired (not like you can go far on a truck anyway). Asked him if it was better and it wasn't, but we had to start so we did. Sadly the noise was clear in the monitor, as soon as I stopped playing it got noisy, like a compressor. I checked the HX effects, no helix in the patch (my normal patch). Turned everything off, still there. After I did baker street and didn't need the looper thing any more, I powered the rest of the rig down, and just went through the HX and nothing else - so Bass -> hx -> amp. Noise was still there. So in the next song I took the cable out and went straight into the cab, noise gone. No idea what it was, will have to check it. But it was the first time I have used it since the 2.8 update so I hope it isn't that.

A weekend of two halves as often is the way. Yesterday played a sports and social clubs 40th anniversary. The place was fairly packed, but there was a main bar and the alley where we were playing. We didn't see that many people in the area we were playing even though aparently we went down well round the corner where we couldn't see. Didn't enjoy that much. Today, we had an afternoon slot that was extended as I assume someone dropped out, so most slots were 50 minutes, but ours was an hour and 20. On the back of a truck, opposite 2 3 story pubs with balconies on weymouth quayside - ie, litterally, it was behind the truck, every so often you could hear the sound of the bridge going up for yachts to pass behind us. It was the coolest of the days and in the morning it actually looked like it wasn't going to be great with a bit of rain, but it got hot again by the afternoon and was pretty perfect. Professional sound setup and went down really well, thoroughly enjoyed it. There was noise coming from my helix for reasons I don't understand but I skipped that and went straight into the backline and all was well. Hope it wasn't the new update.

Yeh, that is what I was thinking. If it had to stay with the tort guard then the green is a winner, but if I could have a white pearl guard that would go nicely. I am assuming they are close enough to the fender ones.

I had been thinking of getting a mustang too. Choice is green or white (or a lot more money for the vitera). The white would be nice but has a tort guard which I couldn't live with. The green is ok

I hope not, that would make it unplayable for me. Whereas I don't mind them doing a sunburst as well, its got to be the worst colour so I am glad they have picked others, and to be fair, it is a 60s mustang and mustangs didn't really come in sunburst until the 70s. They did come in red though, which would have been nice to go with the green and white.

What was the error?

My HX effects had no presets after the upgrade

Is that when you run the Line6 software updater or after you have tried to update it?

I suspect if the £ does collapse over that time, they might decide to not honour the price. I suppose ordering it from Thoman or something might work for that. Or maybe just pay in yen up front

Dawsons say they expect it on 12/08/2019 So less than a month. But yes, currency might be plunging soon.

Damn that autocorrect!

I thought about pre-ordering mine. I figured Andersons had it at £175+£5 postage, Dawsons had it at £175 with free postage, or I could probably get a pre-owned Know one for about £150.. Tricky choice..

Updated the HX Effects without problems, need to do native.

Yeh - that is the video I meant by 'the hairy guitar bloke that was really good on the sounds'! Probably would have been more helpful if I had posted it, but I was on another computer. He seemed impressed by it wasn't he!

Thats why I kept them all. I think I even have a disk for 10.6

Agreed for that. Idealy something where you could set what you want on the front panel and then press save to put it as a preset would be the dream.

I have had this a lot recently. I know a couple of people who do 'original' music, and now look down their noses at cover bands. Unfortunately, their music is anything but original, it is just stuff that they have written, there is a big difference. You are sitting on an acoustic guitar bashing out C, F and G chords with the occasional little riff, you are really stretching the bounds of original. But then don't complain that the public don't have the imagination for original music, of course they do, its just not very good!

But that is literally what people want from Gibson / fender etc. Otherwise its 'oh how could they change the thunderbird, I will never buy another one again!'. People don't like change.

Yeh, but the OP isnt getting paid. You wouldnt put up with that