Woodinblack

Yes, just down to what styles were popular.

Why? A Fender P is a slab of wood roughly shaped with a neck bolted on. This is very well crafted guitar using old techniques to create a fine semi acoustic body with neck built in. It would be crazy if a P had been anything like the price of this in 64.

Hey lads, I see you are having some sort of tiff or something, but you know, this is the Boss SY1 thread, and I know threads are supposed to drift but could you take it to PMs or something because am actually really interested in the Boss SY1 as I have one just here and have enough of that at band practices. Ta mutchly.

Ignore it, and get on with the fun stuff.

Oh that makes sense, obviously if you put the effect before the SY1, it would affect the synth triggering, and if you put it after the SY1, it would have the effect on the synth tones, so the send return just gets the source signal and isn't affected by the synth.

Its a boss pedal, it acts like a boss pedal. you press the pedal and it turns on and does stuff. You can also hold the pedal and it holds whatever is playing, I think that is genuinely useful. It does chords fine, even low ones (haven't tried it with a guitar or stick yet). The effect / direct know, pretty obvious does what you think. The rate / depth is mostly like a filter depth like the big knob on a moog or bass station, and a speed. Pretty obvious The switch with names on it says what it does, but basically, its that and the variations that you flip around for fun sounds, then try and remember what you found! Reading the manual, apparently there is a switch on the back for bass / guitar. I didn't use that as I didn't notice it. Dont know what it is set for but I assume guitar. So good it works. Yep, clear and fast, and the tapewounds aren't good for pitch, so I expect better on an ibby. Even a chord with the B works.

If I look around the living room it is loads better. Just 4 basses, 2 guitars, 1 Chapman stick, 1 Yamaha reface (so small it doesn't count), one Roli keyboard (but its just a keyboard, so that doesn't count). Barely anything. Oh and a Yamaha TRH10 amp.

It arrived today. I got home 20 minutes ago, I opened the parcel, I tried to read the huge manual, I tried to register the US only pedal, I plugged it in (it has a battery, I found that impressive). I twiddled some knobs - that is about it. OMFG. Tonight I shall play. Tomorrow I might even gig it, why the hell not! Will have to find an online manual to see what the send and return do - the paper manual is too small. It tracks down to the B on a bass with tapewounds without a glitch. IMG_5674.mov

Yeh, I tried that back when I was calling my collection 9 (excluding the ones I didn't count). It doesn't work, turns out she can count

I'm guessing this is a jazz thing or something as my answer would be 'never'. TBH, I have never been with a singer who knew what a key was, let alone that it had a flat or heaven forbid, a double flat! And my other thought would be if you are playing something in e♭ and they want it in d♭♭ can't you just move it down 3 frets or across 1 string and up 2, or a combination thereof or am I missing something obvious ? This is what I have always done.

If it is a 705 then it is a 2+3

Well, my wife was but they didn't deliver. Very irritating, and more irritating because I wouldn't have missed it if they hadn't said it was coming!

I had chromes on mine but didn't like them so I went back to roundwounds

I am not either but my wife is in, so I shall be trying it out tomorrow night! Earlier than I expected, was assuming it would be still a few weeks. Maybe time to check if the Squier CV Mustangs are coming out yet - nope! Sorry about that!

Not for me - I form an idea in my head straight away and dont' want to double check it. I just don't want (or need) the social interaction with others. It is a lot of effort, most people are quite hard work. I have no problem communicating my ideas, its just that my ideal world involves being left to get on with my own stuff without anyone else. Even when gigging, I like the people dancing to stuff, and the interaction between the front man and the audience is great. I couldn't do it, I don't know how he does. I just like playing to a crowd but I don't want to talk to them.

Oh fancy that - I got an email saying that mine is going to be delivered tomorrow. For a change, I started a thread about something I ended up buying

Played there. Not a fan! To be fair, that might be because Wigan.

We just go for a new ending each time. Luckily when we played live we just all did some new ones!

Strangely, I also hate them, but I have a singer next to me that seems to love people, and deflect them from me as much as is possible.

I have two bands. One we play pretty well every weekend, a gig or two, 20-30 gigs a year, goes fine, normal gigging issues. We played yesterday at a new venue, all went well except the bass was (whisper it) too loud! Of more interest, to me, when the band was in a bit of a quiet zone around january / feb time, I thought it would be nice to have another band to fill up the gigging schedule and so when i was asked to join another band, motown and stuff (I never did motown), it seemed a good idea. Saturday was our second gig! And it was only half a set. I am now the 3rd oldest member of the gig as everyone else left, 2 singers, 2 drummers, obv the bass player before I left, the horn section. I originally thought they were just unlucky with people but now I know why. Anyway, the thing that keeps me there is that when the female singer left a months or so back my wife joined as a stand in so I got to gig with her. and for all the hassle of the band, that is worth it for me. Whether we will get to a third gig, who knows. One thing is for sure, we will have at least learned 30 different endings for the 15 songs we gigged the other day.

Personality traits like the hatred of gigging?

Clearly there are going to be some people that do. I have met several musicians who hated gigging, a couple just had stage fright and hated ever second of it, and a couple who just like composing and writing music and recording, but had absolutely no interest of playing it in front of an audience. And also as expressed in here, ie, the purpose of this thread. Sure some people might do it if they were being paid, but that doesn't mean they love it, same as your job before you retired, you did it but didn't love it.

If you hate the widdly odd time signature stuff, then how about 90125?

Yeh. I would never do that. I mean, I love gigging, but if you are out entertaining people there has to be a payback for it, if nothing that just to say you are worth being there. I am happy to do the occasional charity gig, like a 1 in 20 or less, but only if I believe in it. I did one tonight in fact.

It really won't, it won't make a blind bit of difference. If your girlfriend goes off with your best mate, does it help if it was your girlfriends idea rather than your best mates idea? So he is going to join a band to make them look better and then deliberately pick songs that the singer will mess up and they will sound a crap band playing live so that the rest of the group decide to get a new singer? I hope it sounds better in his head than it does when said out loud!