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Slipknot - Duality, which was a lot trickier than I was expecting, and Muse, Unravelling. I mean I am also learning Staying out for the summer by tricky for the other group, but as we haven't had a practice for a while, which means that when we get back together the guitarist will a have forgotten it again and take the practice to relearn it, I am not putting too much effort into it!

Well, there is one on eBay but not sure how much I trust that advert!

I think for me, now I see I can have a couple of presets, the XS-1 is probably going to be the right one, no room for a XS-100 and no use for the expression pedal on a pitch shifter.

Although it is a bit of a pain, £25 doesn't seem too much considering that you be getting less money second hand anyway

So reading the manual, am I right that you could have 3 presets? It says in the manual that using a dual footswitch you can set what the footswitch does by pressing it and setting the controls. That means you could have two for the footpedals, and one for the button? In which case I can emulate a footswitch with my midi controller so that would be fine

Well, the ric is doing well, but I have only just got it so it is too early to say how good it is and I am happy with my new XVive A58, but I haven't gigged them yet. I am struggling to think of something I bought this year that i feel much about - in all honesty so far the best thing I have got this year is a K&R microphone stand that has been great!

I assume these people https://mircweb.com

Thought you were going to send it back? that would be a better deal

https://www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/fretting/products/fret-rocker-for-guitar-bass-and-now-mandolin-and-ukulele Just over £20 for a fret rocker, the new one has expanded a bit to cover other instruments, but I have had my older style crimson fret rocker a long time (which was closer to the stumac shape) and its been great. I can't imagine importing stuff directly from the US at those prices when there are all the tools you need made just down the A37!

Came today, nice box and seem ok, quite chunky but not too heavy - wouldn't have killed them to make the transmitter and receiver a bit more visibly different from each other, but can put a label on one. Tried them briefly tonight and they seem very quiet which is good, will have to try them with the effects pedals to see how they go but promising so far. i do like that you can replace the batteries.

You shouldn't need a driver, you just have to connect to the iPad by USB and then core audio should see it. I don't know about cubasis but I assume it should see it if it is available. What sort of interface are you using?

Apart from the presets does it actually do more than the XS1 then? Its a shame that they didn't do it like the SY1 and SY200, really my big problem with it is the size - I don't want a foot pedal, so it is a pain having to make enough room to have one - if I could get something the XS1 size with midi, it would be about as perfect as it could be. Maybe they will make an XS50 at some point for people like me!

Does it have an Midi capability to allow it to do that? <looks> Oh how irritating is that. No it doesn't have midi to change that, but the XS-100 does! I think the XS-100 is out of my range, currently too expensive but probably more significantly too big to put on a board!

Crimson has a new style of fret rocker if people want something a bit cheaper!

I am kind of interested in this now, its probably more than I wanted to spend on a pedal but I do have a specific issue at the moment - I have joined a metal group and where the main group can all be played with a standard tuned 5 string, quite a few of the metal ones require a variety of drop tunes, so I have to use more than one bass (because it is a pain constantly tuning your E on a 5 string!). However, then there are a few songs that are other wierd tunings like drop B. Most you can just rework out for a 5 string, but some would be easier of I could use a drop D b string tuned down to B - so if you dropped a low D down 3 semitones to a B, does it sound reasonably natural, or at least workable? I am currently just using my Boss ME90B but the drop tuning on that is pretty poor. Sorry, I had missed that, I certainly can if the OP doesn't want to / cant.

what else is connected? The noble produces 800ma which isn't much more than than the Mxr needs, so if you are powering other stuff unless it is very light it isn't going to work

I have two acoustics, they are odly both active!

I had a TcHelicon MP85, which I thought went with my voice better than anything, but watching videos, I move my head slightly and it goes completely, so now I just use a behringer copy of something.

All active apart from the rics and the jabba mini bass. Well, also the chapman stick, although that is active or passive, depending on if you give it phantom power.

That is what I assumed - I ordered it from andertons that is currently £20 less than anyone else (including amazon, even though I dont' order through them anyway), but had to pay £2 more for shipping to make sure it wasn't sent with Evri! Seemed a good bet!

TIL (actually last night), rickenbacker actually did do some active electronics in a guitar. I never knew that. No basses though.

I think they realised a massive gaping error in their system and fixed it by the fact their servers fell over!

Well, sounds all positive, so I have bought some and its all your lots fault if they are no good!

On the group buy thing it specifically states "Important note: This product does not qualify for the IK Multimedia Group Buy. You will not be eligible for further free plugins upon purchase." - is that what it said before?

Well, here in yeovil it is mostly fenders, but there is a Jabba telecaster bass and a 1960s Vox Symphonic. There is also a Kay bass at a comedy price and a Peavey milestone 3 with a 'custom handmade walnut body." - that sounds a lot better than it looks.