Woodinblack

One thing I have found really irritating in the past that affects this with the oled displays, is that while the cheap ones are very cheap and very easy to use (<£5 each), the commonly available ones are all fixed to one I2C address, and the slightly more expensive or bigger ones have a choice of 2. Why can't they just expose a number of pins so you can pick at the minimum one of 4 or 8 addreses?

If all you want is to jump between a few set sounds, you don't even need additional buttons, you can just have a pedalboard with a number of snapshots, and move between them. Obviously the pedalboard becomes more useful if you want to randomly switch between several sounds

Some people are so woke..

That sounds a lot better, and at least boris brings the hair count up a bit!

Certainly more work that I am going for - if I decide to do the upgrade, I will just use the MVave case and stick a Pico or a bluetooth feather (only because I have one!), but looks like you will have a very versatile pedal! Might just go for these though: http://www.timetravelaudio.co.uk/shop/components/switches/foot-switches/3pdt-foot-switch-illuminated-type-with-led-ring-colour-options-on-led-cap/

As I had previously asked how much power a mod dwarf took, and how the first power supply I found in my box that was 12V was 5A, i thought I would check today how much it took. Answer.. just a shade over 300mA. 200 at startup, going to the maximum I made it take which was with all of the lights on, midi working, two inputs, pedalboard with everything on it which peaked at 320ma. Was expecting a bit more than that, as it is marked as 2A, the HXFX is also marked as 2A and that comes in just over 1.1A.

If you were going to do one of those youtube 'how to sound like yes' videos, that is the sort of thing you would come up with.

ok, that makes sense, I thought you meant bank on the dwarf!

Why did you decide on midi vs control channel, was this so you could use it on other things? Also is your expression pedal USB or Midi, or are you processing that in the pedalboard too?

By switch bank, do you mean changing pedalboard? Still not familiar with all the terminology on these things. I wouldn't want to change pedalboard mid song as there is so much of a delay doing it, but happy to do it between songs. Looks good - I need another pedalboard with samples, as I have a digitech loopman on my board for one sample, and obviously I can drop that now with this, so I am rapidly losing cables, which was what I wanted to do! Thats where I am. Next samples, then I can do pedalboards for the chapman stick and the double bass!

How do you currently use your MVave switches with it?

At the risk of sounding like I am having a conversation with myself here, I finally got down to actually using it last night. Having been on the edge of whether I was going to send it back or not (I haven't even taken the plastic screen cover off yet, which is unheard of), I thought it needed a chance for the reasons I bought it. So here is one of the issues that made me think of getting it, the two in two out thing. I play, sing and keyboard Brick in the wall in our set. In the middle of the solo, because the rest of the song drops out I use footpedals to play chords while the guitarist solos, otherwise it sounds dead. I used to run from the footpedals up to my iPad, which ran M1, and then the iPad through audio socket to the mixer. Problem wiht this is that I don't like leaving the footpedals plugged in as they wear the iPad battery out a lot on a long set, but unplugging them and plugging them in sometimes means they are not picked up. So I went to bluetooth midi, with a yamaha midi thing, but for reasons best known to yahama, when you first connect that, the iPad doesn't see it as a midi device until you rename it. obviously if the power goes off you have to rename it again. Also hit and miss. Also the wireless midi comes from a 9->5 adapter that it plugs into then to the keyboard. So how about the mod dwarf doing synth? Fired it up, new patch, plenty of synths but no organ.. go to the mod store, type organ in the search, there are quite a few, pick a basic GM player, sounds basically ok, but no leslie. Look for leslie speakers, but nothing there, back to the store, there are several, a few paid, a few free, got two of the free ones, start a/b ing them back to back. One is very basic, the other - I think the guy must have done his PhD on leslie speaker dynamics, speeds, acceleration, deceleration, sound bleed, filter type etc. Use that, got a good sound, but add some chorus at the end, why not. Add the fast / slow speed to one of the footswitch and the fast speed rate to one of the knobs. Still something missing so I add another synth, this one has a violin setting, just as a fill, put that through the chorus, but not through the leslie, and turn it down in the mix (should have used a mixer there). Put the volume of that on the other knob as its much louder than the organ anyway. Keys sound fine, so now bass - don't need anything much for this so just a straight signal with a little bit of dirt on the high frequencies, so put in a crossover, and route the HF through the distortion, perfect, put the switch of that on the other footswitch, gig that at the weekend. Look up, oops, should have gone to bed a while back, its a school night! I have an HXFX, and yes, the general effects sound good, and the routing is fine, probably nothing you couldn't do (apart from the synths, you can't do that) without a workaround, and probably much easier to set up without plugging it into a computer on the fly, but nothing like the fun of setting this up with a screen. I must remember when I get back downstairs to remove the plastic from the screen!

As mentioned, I have a 2000 euro5 so about the same age and construction. I am not sure what you mean by chunky, but the neck on mine is not what I would describe as chunky - its thinner than the RST, and thinner than a legend I had, but not the same level as an ibanez. As someone that doesn't like P basses for their chunky necks, this isn't like that.

I didnt see anything specifically new in the video but they are nice looking basses, i like the plug in preamp thing in the other mention, although it restricts you to ones already made tthat way and as it is patented there isnt much incentive for other manufacturers to do it, so I can't see it really taking off. I already have the rolled edges, zero fret and magnetic back plate here, I like the recessed jacks, I have seen them before at the bass bash, but wouldn't work well for me as there isn't enough room to get a wireless in. There is always quite a crowded market of custom makers of FSOs, but there is always room for more.

Mine is a 2000 and had a tonepump in it. doesn't have one at the moment. If that was a 5, I would certainly be interested. It would go with the green one perfectly!

Nice colour!

See I would go dingwall from the given options, if I could pick the dingwall, but I had a combustion and TBH, although the neck was lovely, the bass was not good at all - lifeless and uninteresting, almost lost a gig because of it, but luckily brought a Cricket Bass backup and redeemed it. Hated it and coudln't wait to get rid of it, traded it for my #1 ibanez which on the face of it sounds like a bad deal but was about the best deal I ever made. So I would never get another far east dingwall without playing it.

And even odder - left it tonight, loads of holiday prep to do, animals to sort out. Now I have got back to it and as my wife has gone to bed I brought it downstairs. Plugged it into my spark and my wireless to the input. Totally dead silent. No noise whatsoever. I expected more as there is a wireless dongle hanging out of the input, nada.

ok, so routing round in my spare PSU section I found a netgear 12V psu, and used that one instead. Its a lot quieter, and the buzz has gone away. I did find the 'get rid of ground buzz' setting did get rid of some of the buzz too, so it is now pretty well buzz free - its a little noisier than no effect, I don't know what that would be as a live thing (and also it is in my computer room which has a lot of noise sources). Playing around with just the effects that are set up as standard is actually pretty inspiring, they go from useful to completely unusable but interesting, very impressed with the quality and I haven't really done anything with it yet. I guess the best option is to take it to practice this week and see what it brings to the party. Once I got used to the workflow of it, I found it surprisingly easy to navigate with only 3 buttons, with its pedalboards and snapshots - I know the HXFX has that but honestly i have never used it in that way.

thanks for the link - that was the page that the photo on the quickstart guide pointed to, it didn't mention the dwarf user guide! I will try the noise things in that page, I tried to find a page like that, found threads, but didn't see that, so thanks! Not sure it is an earth loop, as that is just connected straight - but I do have a few things with DIs, so I will try that, and maybe if I have other power supplies around.

Might be short lived though - I tried it after work and plugging it in I was greeted by a nice loud buzz through everything. Same sort of buzz you get when you have a digital and analogue effect on the same power supply, the sort I used to get with various things before I got an isolated power supply. Not very promising if I get it when nothing else is plugged in. The effects that are built in seem pretty good, although plugging in the usb lead provided failed to enable me to get to any user interface - they really could think of the finishing touches couldn't they - there is a piece of paper that thanks you for getting it, and gives you a web address you can manually type in to get to a quick start guide, and when you get to that, and have scrolled down far enough it actually says how to get started, by showing you a picture of the web address you have to type in your browser to get to the device. Really smart guys - a link too tricky, or you just want to add inconvenience? So no, I did't manage to get to the gui - I guess I have to do some reading to get this to work, but then even if I do, the buzz isn't useable in an effects pedal. Somewhat dissapointed

What is this offence? who is offended? Hearing that song again in any form would have that effect on me!

and why is that relevant?

Not that ironic really, all conducted over the net as any of this sort of trasaction should be. Anyway, ordered a mod dwarf from them on thursday night, turned up just now, so good shipping, good price. Seems like the box had already been opened though, so not sure why but all there and plastic on the screen so maybe just in the shop.Still, cheaper than the thomman bstock, so no problem really, and kind of what I would expect, so assuming everything is good (have opened and looked but not tried it yet) then I am happy with that

So today I can join your club, found out that bass direct sell them so picked up one there, a bit cheaper than thomman (and most of the used ones on the net). Great size, if this does everything i think it can do I can downsize my pedalboard a bit although obviously you have to consider space for the needed footswitches to make it actually useable! Looking forward to using this tonight!