Al Krow

Agreed re the SY-1. And in fact there is a bass / guitar mode switch on the rear which you would, of course, typically set to "bass" as a bass player. [Aside: the exception is when you want to use the SY-1 as an octave down pedal, in which case use Bass Mode-4 on the top dials with "Guitar" mode at the back]. +1^^ SY1 has far greater versatility, ability to sustain the synth whilst playing a bass line over it and superb tracking. The SYB-5 doesn't (correction: apart from the sustain to hold - see @paul_5's post below. I clearly didn't get that far with it when I had mine 😁).

Get thee behind me PM** Trouble is I know for a fact you'll be putting this to better use than me, which makes me feel guilty about getting in ahead of the queue! But not that guilty 😁

Seems to me we are in the home straight (yes, I know, famous last words!) and that gigs will be in full flow in three week's time: 'Prof Robert Dingwall, a member of the UK Government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, urged people to stop panicking about the current rising infection levels, which may only be reflecting a “last wave of mild infections” among unvaccinated youths. “It is well past time to panic about infection rates and to publish them obsessively. Even hospitalisation rates are increasingly misleading as better therapy reduces length of stay. Covid is now a long way from being an important cause of mortality [in the UK],” the Nervtag scientist tweeted.'

Haha - very probably, just as we have several Ibby threads! But the "good news" behind this thread (please refer to the OP) was all about the arrival of vaccines followed by scepticism that we had the ability as a nation to roll them out etc. etc. so it's entirely a reasonable point of discussion and Phil (as always) makes some good points, in particular, about the comparison of what's happening here with Aus.

He even specifically mentions us bass-players in his NAMM 2018 launch of the Pro - by virtue of having a clean blend.

I wonder where @CalDeep and your WMDs ended up? I've had my WMD Civilian Issue for 5 mins, but having heard clips from your albums @pantherairsoft I'm already GAS-ing for one of its big brothers. The 2018 Pro version looks awesome...if anyone has one they've forgotten about which has been quietly disarmed in a cupboard somewhere...😊

The vaccine programme is the key to getting out of endless lockdown cycles. On that we're all agreed i presume? Remind me which Australian university in collaboration with which Australian drug company developed one and whereabouts in Aus these are now being produced? AZ were not a vaccine manufacturer 18 months ago. But foresight and investment by the UK government made it happen.

You can't keep locking down until every last job is destroyed. Covid is not even a top 20 cause of death in the UK currently.

I didn't manage to make it to Colchester over the weekend, but this lot had a great evening from all reports!

Sadly Australian approach not looking so good anymore with 80% of the country back in lockdown.

Now that was some board!!!

Suddenly find myself paying much closer attention to your pedal boards for some reason! Maybe the multiple album releases have something to do with it... 😄 So which board is your WMD currently sitting on?

From the start of your GAC 2020 thread, which was taken from @Sibob's original GAC 2019 thread. Now, no more Matt Hancock type behaviour please, of one rule for those in charge and another for the plebs 😁

Damn that's wonderfully creative! Bravo chap!

Haha, good try... What’s a fail? Any purchase or trade of new or used bass gear. 'Bass gear' = anything in your signal chain that you use to make or augment your bass sound /tone. basses, amps, cabs, pedals, PA gear (if your bass is DI’d into this) What’s ok? Anything to look after or organise your existing gear or wear & tear related. Any non-bass gear. strings, gig bags, leads, pedal boards, PSUs for pedal boards, repairs or identical replacement of existing kit, lessons, software related to existing kit non-bass musical gear (this came under a stricter Tier 2 for the completely hair shirted last year) e.g. music software not related to existing kit, keyboards, guitars, drum machines etc. By concession: unsolicited gifts of gear where you had no say in the matter!

You were out 2 months ago, when you upgraded your HX Effects for a HX Stomp...😂

Fantastic! Love to hear where / when / styles of music you were using it on? I'm already a little bit tempted to try one of the full sized GCs, but they come with a hefty price tag!

The only review of the Digbeth pre I've come across so far. It is very well featured, but will it manage to knock a Tech VTDI (or whatever your fav pre is) off it's perch? Jury's is out, but my sense is that it could certainly do some things better e.g. low end retention, while not having as much flexibility in others - the VTDI is ridiculously versatile in the tones it can deliver, which I guess is part of its popularity. I get the point from di Marco of having a tailored pre-amp for each bass (in his case 10 of each!), but I suspect that's not a luxury that most of us would be looking to afford. Speaking of affordability, this one is packing a LOT of bang for its buck. In comparison you could easily be paying £300+ for a Mesa or Darkglass pre. and at its launch price the Digbeth does seem worth having a punt on.

Cheers SM. I thought I'd return the favour by collating it as a pdf for you. Kinga Glyk - Joy Joy.pdf

+1 ^^ (with one tweak 😁) The spec looks great: FET and tube alternative, 4 band EQ with semi-para low mids plus tilt and full headphone amp capability & DI out. And great design too! I'd love to finally get some kit from these guys and support an independent Midland's manufacturer who managed to stay on the road since 1967 and this certainly looks tempting.

Loaded up my board with a WMD which I couldn't resist for very long when it came up used recently, as they're pretty rare over here. I thought it was going to be completely crazy based on some of the YT reviews and that I was going to be at risk of an IED blowing up in my face but, to my slight disbelief, it's turned out to have a surprising number of usable settings and first impressions are that it's actually a more versatile "gated fuzz" than the Mastotron which it has (at least for now) displaced from my board. But even in this Civilian mode, the WMD does make the Mastotron seem pretty un-savage in comparison.