Woodinblack

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?

Yeh, they look good on the desktop, but then they are £10 for the iPad one and £100 for the mac one - thats what put me off! I have tried the helix native 15 day trial, if only it was 15 days of playing rather than calendar days. It is really impressive though (its what made me realise I needed the HX instead of the stomp). Probably easier if you buy it with the LT as it is a cheap deal. I looked around for reviews on the amp but couldn't find anything, has yours been published? Seems like it would be brilliant with the one caviat of redundant software compatible hardware, like the old iphone effects pedals etc. But just the whole amp designer with the 'change this valve, oh that is a bit brighter' bit is certainly worth the entrance fee. I am surprised they haven't done a similar thing with the effects though - so what happens if I change the opamp in my overdrive from a TL084 to a LM741 or run the powersupply slightly cold?

Noticed yesterday that BIAS have their normal black friday 50% sales, so as a happy user of jam up pro and some of their other stuff, I treated myself to Amp2 with all the packs and Bias FX with the essentials. Spent quality time with the amp designer and it really does work pretty well. Had a bit of difficulty getting Jam up FX and Amp to play nice together (FX and Amp work ok together, but I wanted the jam up part too). Might have just got in a funny state. One day I will try gigging with them and seeing how it goes! Certainly would like to try the amplifier they do

Is having honey trickle into your earls lovely?

I have issues with 6s in the necks are too big, and also in the heat of a gig I can get the string wrong. Having had years of gigging 4s and 5s, I tend to reference from the G which is not so good when it is a C!

That 'piano through whatever' makes a good sound. There was a good 'model D through a strymon big sky' video I watched yesterday that got me thinking. Mostly wouldn't it be nice to have a big sky!

Maybe when they make the stomp pro, which has twice as many blocks and twice as many buttons, at the same price - I might be in

Well, I think they are more american aren't they. I mean they are owned by Yamaha, but only currently, they started as their own company. Frankly, if they hadn't made the stomp I wouldn't have noticed they made the HX, so it worked for me too!

Same here!

I guess it depends on what sort of a band you are. If you are a serious band, do nothing, if not, go wild!

Yay, that was quick