Woodinblack

I do like the crossover split thing, reason I wanted the HX really. I was playing around with it tonight with a crossover split, where the lows basically bypass everything, the highs go through the 2 part harmony and a bunch of distortions chorus and echos, and was rather impressed with that. I do like the ability to bypass the distortion with the bass so it doesn't drop out, makes them all a bit more useable. Still yet to do the 4cm into the CTM to use 'real' overdrive

You can certainly get muddy tones out of it and way to unmuddy tones, depending on what you have selected. Although if all you want is amp modeling into a PC, I can highly recommend Positive Grid Bias Amp2 as a fantastic amp modeller.

£200? I would think a bit more than that. Also they are not small things are they?

Did a pub gig on Friday and a private party on Saturday, thought both might be called off as the guitarist was ill for both of them and the drummer ill for the first, but no, we actually got through them which was good (even if it almost killed the drummer singing Highway to hell). The pub was our 'local' pub, for some reason facebook had gone overboard on views, at over 1.3k, so was expecting 5 people, but no, it was heaving and everyone appeared to be enjoying it. We got some good compliments. A friend of the singer kept telling me to smile as apparently none of us apart from the singer did. I pointed out that they were both ill and I was way too serious for any of that shenanigans, and that is why we had the singer. The party was in the same place as a party the previous week, but then there was a proper sound man and several other bands. This didn't have but it was much busier. Odd collection - this week was a 50th or 60th but they wanted newer songs. The age range was much bigger (probably because in general there were more people), so 20 to 90. It was hard to tell what to play. The older ones got up for slow dances to Need your love so bad, but then also got up for more rocky ones. Then everyone was up for poker face and moondance. Some times you can't predict what people will dance to. The end few, does your mother know, timber and a few of the more ska ones, more of the younger were up as some of the others had drifted off. There was a young woman who was very enthusiastically dancing, more bouncing like a tigger with bare feet and on the last song someone had dropped a glass on the other side of the dance floor, and I was transfixed hoping she wouldn't bounce that way. She did a bit, but seemed to avoid most of it!

I would say, as someone that owns a number of 2 octave keyboards, they are always frustrating when you try and use them for anything other than simple lines. Only go for a 2 octave if you are sure you don't want to do much with it. Bearing in mind it gives the flexibility of playing on a 1 string bass!

The JD-Xi can make great sounds, and is probably the most versatile as it has the analogue part, the 2 digital parts and the drum machine (as well as vocoder and all that stuff), but it is a pain in the a**e with all the red text on a black background. Do they really believe anyone can read any of that? So what sort of sound do you want? I have a bass station which is great for bass sounds and mono stuff, but small keyboard and limiting. I have the GAIA which is very versatile as a synth sounding thing, but with presets and everything, and I also have a Roland Juno DS, which is big but does actual instruments on presets with not much editing. They all make very different sounds. If I wanted to play keys for a coverband, the DS is perfect, you have any sound you need easily from a menu. If I wanted to do organs and the like for rock I would have bought the roland VR-09 instead. The GAIA is great if I wanted to do synth sounds or for pads and washes. If I wanted anything really synthy I would use a waldorf blofeld I have, much more digital sounding. If I wanted just bass, the bass station would probably be the chap.

Don't overlook the sound options that playing through a guitar amp and cab will give you just because they say guitar.

Looks good - I didn't see your reply for some reason, I just saw it tonight. Also it doesn't want to play the video so I have to resort to actually reading the words! I bought the Amp2 for the mac as well. Actually I didn't, I bought FX for the mac accidently, when I meant to buy AMP2, but I contacted them and explained my stupidity and they changed it to Amp2, which was nice of them. One thing I notice on that review, was that things had got so bad it is now cheaper in dollars than pounds!

Funny, I was listening to this earlier:

They do but their deal on both the LT and the HX take it down to the price that is everyone elses normal price!

pmt still have the extended 10% off thing don't they? I know what he means though - going through the stuff on it yesterday there was a nagging 'you would have more blocks if you had an LT'

would love a neck through but I want to cut stuff down first

I know it is possible to assign a midi note on / off to a pedal. This is great, I can use it to replace my 12 step which would give me more space, but is it possible to assign more than one midi note on per switch, so I can do chords?

I was very tempted but then I got the offer of the HX effects. Maybe i will come to one of your gigs and see how it works - you still with Microlight?

I would do too if they didn't go crazy on the string spacing.

I did. I bought an EB5 when they were reduced to £400 - It was a good bass, but not for me as the string spacing was too much. At £400 it was a good price. I have an Epiphone Thunderbird too, the through neck with the Gibson pickups. If the Gibson one had been a £100-200 or so more, maybe I would have bought that, but it wasn't, it was way over double. Thats a lot for a badge. But I saw Placebo - and they played a load of them.

Well, I got my HX today and I am really impressed so far. Played through the presets and cobbled together some patches. one thing I hadn’t realised that is fantastic is that I had gone down to two songs that I needed my 12 step for, and each of those are just a couple of chords, so I could trigger those from the hx, which frees a large amount of room on the pedalboard!

Or more likely, Gibson are asshats so charge so much that no-one buys them when they make them so they assume there is no demand. And frankly they might be right, you can flog an almost never ending supply of les Paul 57 reissues..

I have been to restaurants where it isn't much better. After enquiring before we sat down of the staff in a local 'restaurant' if they did gluten free vegan buns for a burger they were offering, and been told they did, it turned out they could do vegan and gluten free, but not at the same time.

So what is the point? If you can't trust him to play something right and you have to explain everything, wouldn't you just be better off (for everyones sake) with someone else?

Yeh, you can never rely on him to be in the right place at the right time

Me too, so I went exclusively to 5s. Then after a while I came back to it and found that 4s no longer presented a problem, as instead of a 5 seeming like a 4 with an extra string, the 4 now seems like a 5 with the bottom string missing, and as such I don't have a problem (apart from a couple of songs where I have to move everything around to play them) as it is obvious it isn't right.

Rule 3: Don't stand on the thunderflash

So they didn't miss the 'I don't want the gantry to fall on me or to catch fire' clause?