Woodinblack

Anyone know where you can get a black bridge for a 5 string bongo? it has silver everywhere currently and I think it would look nice with black, but although you can buy saddles directly from the manufacturer, they don't seem to do the bridge as a unit (or even the base plate)

I tried last night, figured it wouldnt be too hard, turns out it is!

Would love a PM16, but its just another thing to buy / carry!

Unfortunately that is the way and one of the major pedalboards with flexability - trying to get what you want. When I started, you could only get pedals, and they were expensive so you didn't get many, so you made do with what you had, and made what you had do what you wanted - you also experimented more because you had to. Now with modern multifx you know you can basically get every sound you want if only you found the right one. Choice is the enemy here. I say one of the best ways of getting your sound could be to do the same. I haven't got many pedalboards on my dwarf (I have 3 - 2 are for specific songs and 1 is for everything else), I have others to play around on. Pick a number of effects - like one distortion, one echo, one chorus, one other effect, connect them up and just force yourself to get the sound you want in your head by fiddling with those for a period of time, even if there is a temptation to change them. stick all the knobs from the effects on the front panel and see what you can get. Move them round, change the order. As for order, that makes more sense when you think about the signal itself, like if you have an envelope effect, do you want to reduce the envelope (like with an overdrive or compressor) before you use the envelope? probably not. Do you want to distort a modulated signal, or do you want to modulate a distorted signal - they sound very different. There is no real science to this, its just how it sounds to you and only you are going to know what works, but you can't do it with all the effects on the dwarf, there are too many, just do it with the restricted set. Then finally when you know what you are not getting, start changing the pedals one at a time until you get what you want. As to your specific statements: 1) input gains - set them as high as they can go without overloading anything when you go crazy. Thats the easy way 2) The only way is to try it at gigging level - when you turn a fuzz one the level is going to change, and the perceived level will change, but also the eq - it depends on your equipment how loud that is. Keep the level on a front panel control until you know it (in fact I keep those levels on a front panel control) 3) ordering, compressor at the front / back. Where on a guitar I would always put it on the front, there are equally valid reasons for both sides - again, try it see what works, and why it works. There are no right ways (although I guess there can be wrong ways!) Not very helpful I know, but these things are so personal that its hard to say.

I noticed yesterday, when looking at something else, there is a 40% drop of how many 20 year olds had taken their car test compared to 1990, so maybe there will be fewer everyone having transport. I guess they can't all live in london!

Maybe a bit more than a week!

It includes SY1000 sounds. I didnt hear anything hugely away from the normal guitar synth SY1000 stuff though. Would love one, although to be fair, if I had one, I would fit it on a guitar to get a decent response on it. Maybe a baritone guitar tuned B-C?

ok, now I looked it is just a twisted pair cable, so what you would expect for high speed serial data, like an ethernet cable.

That was the stupid thing - the 400 had dual brakes, the 250 had a single disk, but both bikes had a near identical weight!

Left = 1 right = 2. Not sure if that can be changed, but that is what it is when I try it. Which is unfortunately really as I put my keys out of 2 and my bass out of 1!

I am not sure but there are different modes depending on what you are doing. if you are editing a patch like the one above, and you haven't saved it anywhere, all the time you are in the desktop like that, you are in local editing mode. As soon as you unplug the USB interface, you are then back in whatever patch is / was active before you started. Maybe this other patch hasn;t got the right layout. Seeing as that patch is called Untitled:default, that would seem to be the case. Save that patch as something, unplug the USB and make sure the patch name you saved is selected on the dwarf panel.

Mine plug everything in themselves, but then they should.. And also it is the same group and we have been using it since 2017 for well over 100 gigs, and more practices, so they ought to really

Nothing in the cable - the strings are serial encoded in the little box, and fed though a the TRS, which I am guessing also probably has power. So power / ground / signal. I am guessing not. Well, currently there is no internal kit, I had just been looking, but when they do, there is no way to have them in the same cable (which is a shame as the gibson did, but then it had a battery in it).

Indeed - off to listen to some warlock now!

I don't think it passed you by, I think they have just introduced it! I suspect it is a stereo balanced cable, but I have yet to see one. Makes a lot of sense but why they couldn't make one years ago I don't know.

Looking, yes. The 250 superdream was a 400 superdream with smaller barrels. So it had the weight of the 400 with the power of the 250. It was wallowy and horrible. That is compared the the Z250, GSX250, GS250 (which in itself was a bit wierd) of the time, and the RD250/KH250 which were older. Before the world went crazy with the RD250LC and RG250.

Yes, just looking at that. The GM800 only has the new serial interface, so if you need to use an old (as from today) GK 13 pin guitar, you need a Boss GKC-AD 13 pin -> GK adapter (for about £170), or if you have a serial interface you nneed to connect to an old synth, a GKC-DA that goes the other way, for about the same price.

I was looking at that yesterday and a bit puzzled by ts number, or where it fits in the lineup. It certainly sounds good, not sure what the bass would be like, but where does it fit with the SY1000. Looks like the GK5 is just that it is serial instead of paralllel like the gk3. Which is sort of similar to the gibson darkfire and dusktigers. I wonder if it will connect by default to those?

Dorothee Pesch springs to mind? There were quite a few others, but obviously a lot less than men. Obviously in a pretty well sexist world, having children and going out to practice is always going to be more common for a man, and also there are going to be less family issues for a bloke going out every week to practice with a group of blokes than there would for a woman. When we were going through looking for singers, we found it was easier the older, rather than younger. There was a lot less drama, and more chance the kids had moved on.

Yeh, I was looking at aliexpress - but I am just waiting for one of you to come back and say 'don't do it, its a heavy unplayable lump'!

400 yes, 250 hell no!

But he (Daryl Jones) has been the bass player for the rolling stones since 1993, and has worked on every album and tour with them in that time.

Like the bass player of the rolling stones?

I love performing, but if I get time before a gig I have - not exactly a sense of dread, but an unease, especially if it is somewhere i haven't played before. If I can keep busy I don't get it, otherwise it can get quite bad.

Are you considering it - for some reason today I wanderd on Aliexpress and noticed some 5 string acrylics which seem tempting, and cheap enough to get, although I am aware that acrylics tend to be very heavy, so not sure if it is going to end up being something I use. However, we are the type of group to have as many LEDs as possible, so it could be fun