Woodinblack

I don't think that is necessarily true. Some people take a bass week after week to a gig, throw it in the back of the car in a bag, play it, drop it, throw it around then put it back in the bag, lob it back in the car, get home, throw it in the corner. Its an object, they don't care. Some people take a bass week after a week to a gig, keep it in a case, take it out when they need it, play it, wipe it down afterwards, put it back in the case, take it home and store it. It has value to them and they want to look after it. I have picked up guitars that were a couple of years old that look like they were used to dig a patio, and ones that are over 20 years ago that looked like they came out of the factory yesterday. Its more to do with how they were looked after. The oldest guitars are only 70 years old, there are playable good condition musical instruments that are 4/500 years old.

Indeed - it can be a overwhelming when you just want to throw something in and realise you have 20 pedals you could use, and you are not sure which one.

Yep, tried it, sounds great at the time, not so great afterwards. i don't know about alcohol, never did that.

Only brilliant for improvising if you wanted a 4 hour 12 bar blues track!

Indeed - if you just want a bass get the one that plays well. If you want something collectable get the 76 (god knows why one that new is worth that now). Or use the 2.5k difference to invest in some stocks, you will probably get the money quicker.

hahah - when I saw the screenshot before I read what was on it, I thought you had worked out how to get the packman graphics on there! The program change / snapshot change is a good spot though, I forgot that (which is sad as I only turned it on at the weekend).

To win pacman, not just to play. And yes, it would be possible to play pacman on the dwarf but you would need to use the web interface or an external display, to do it well!

I had thought of the audio file player, but maybe with mindi doing something to kick it off, but couldn't work out how to do that. Unfortunately I can set the dwarf to accept program changes as pedalboard changes or snapshot changes, I don't think I can do both? The answer is obvious really - the sampler has public source code so I should just make one, its just a question of time.

I haven't had that issue with my NS, but I have that problem all the time with PA stands etc. That seems like a good thing!

haha - yes, I forgot that bit. I switched on the 'Change pedalboard on program change' setting on the dwarf when I was playing around with the chocolate pedal, then promptly forgot about it as I had to sort my pedalboard order out* until the gig this weekend, and got really confused as I had a pedalboard with a sample playback and one without one, but everytime I switched the 12 step to be chromatic** it would switch to my brick in the wall patch (which is the one with the chords). Then it occured to me last night when fiddling, each 12 step patch has a midi section that can send a program change (or bank change or other changes - in fact two as it has two channels) when you switch to it, and my brick in the wall patch sent a program change to my iPad to make sure it was the right patch, but now it sends it to the dwarf and changes pedalboard. *** So last night I changed the program settings so that the two 12 step patches I use select the two pedalboards on the dwarf. Which is surprisingly useful. You just have to make sure you have the right bank selected or hilarity ensues. * Can't find a way of saying 'program change 1 selects this pedalboard, program change 2 selects this one'. There are some of those enigmatic messages you get on forums where people say 'oh you just have to use mindi and reroute the midi throught that to a virtual midi channel to select the channel' like that is supposed to mean anything to a human, but basically, I can accept the limitation that program 1 selects pedalboard 1, program 2 pedalboard 2 etc' (actually 0 selects 1, 1 selects 2 due to terminoligy differences in 12 step and dwarf) ** normal pedalboard has chords in it, chromatic just sends one note out, and that is all the sampler can deal with. *** sample does sort of what I want for 1 sound but irritatingly, when you switch to it it defaults to the click sample, even if you save it pointing to something else. If you change any setting on that pedalboard it will then have the right sample. Also irritatingly, you can't remove the click sample as it doesn't exist except in the sampler! Still, at least if you accidently play the click sample when you meant something else, noone would notice it. Not like the time it was supposed to be a bell and it played the horn intro to stop the cavalry, or the 'Lets all go to the lobby jingle...'

I don't actually drink anyway, so the diet coke isn't just me cleaning up on gigs, that is the normal.

Way too much diet coke.

You think there are enough people that dislike you enough to do that to you??

Sounds like a very interesting life, and congrats to you for combining your love with your career, but to me it highlights how I couldn't do it, I am not a fan of travelling that much and staying in other places, especially when you have children and I would suspect there are quite a few in the same boat.

I have what I thought (and seemed in IEM) to be excessive distortion on one of my patches, but listening to a crowd recorded video from sunday, you can barely tell there was any sort of distortion on it! Spent a while trying to get my pedal sorted out, especially the sample player. I need another one of those, the only existing one has flaws, and I can't find anything else. It sort of does the job for now, but I want something better. Also an octave up that is any good would be nice. There are a couple of nice delays in there - I am using one in one of my patches - boley delay or something? There is a tape delay that is good too. Oh and I put the detune on one of my patches, and that sounds really good (if you don't go crazy on the detune on it!)

It would be a good plan - I would have still have one if it came in a smaller box.

Series makes them louder - parallel is what you have already. Doesn't really make it sound like a P bass, it sounds like a louder jazz, but a bit different. Well, it won't sound like a P. Maybe it will sound better, depends on a lot of things.

Ah ok, now that sounds different, but it is nice to have as an option.

I loved the sound of the series on jazz https://www.bestbassgear.com/wiring-diagrams/jass_bass_sp.pdf Thats odd because with both volumes on a jazz full, that is exactly how it is wired.

Not something i have looked into yet, and probably won't that much, probably would be more use to a guitarist I would think to get their one true tone. I find with just the general building blocks I can have quite a bit of fun anyway, you can get some really crazy cool outlandish effects before you remember your band mates are just expecting you to play mustang sally

Those were my most usual problems, as I did swing and battering a bass with it. Also changing it from one bass to another. For me it seemed like something that would be better if you just had one bass, or one per backbeat so it could be constantly wired, connected and covered with something to prevent damage.

My use of it has gone from strength to strength - I now not only do all the synth things with it, I use it for samples too, or a sample at the moment, haven't got round to finding a way to do multiple samples well. I also worked out that as my 12 step is connected, that sends a program change to the dwarf so it now changes pedalboard when I change 12 step patch.* I noticed that at the last gig - would be good if it was the right pedalboard!

Digging this back up, I have an interest in getting a bongo done as a flip flop colour, so I asked someone local and for a complete head to toe flip flop of the coloured parts (not the fingerboard as above!) its £450. I was wondering if that would seem like a normal ballpark figure for these sort of things. Currently wondering if it is worth it for me!

nice they have actually put in and out on it now so you don't have to remember!