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The thing I find though is just because a company says it had digitally recreated something, doesn't mean it's a good recreation. Helix say they recreate it, as do Zoom, and Boss, all to varying levels of success. I dunno, but I'd assume sansamp can do sansamp better than anyone else, perhaps not though.
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I like the look of that, and $299 seems a decent price that'd hopefully translate to about that in £. seing as a $ is £0.74 and I suppose there are import costs. Tough, simple and looks like it can do all the things you really need for gigs: Tuner, compression, drive, EQ, line and XLR out, fx loop, simple to access presets, and some nice to have extras like filter, IRs, Chorus (I wonder if it can do other modulation effects or delays?), midi. I suppose the key thing will be if it sounds good though. I'm not against digital, but there is a big variation between a good digital overdrive and a bad one.
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Does Your Covers Band Change Songs? What Changes and Why?
SumOne replied to Sean's topic in General Discussion
We sometimes change stuff quite a lot, e.g. making a ska or reggae version of an existing song. Other things we just change a bit as at one point in time perhaps we kept messing up a part and simplified it, or didn't have the right instruments, or just didn't sound good when we played it - or certain bits sounded good so we extended them. There are a few songs we pretty much cover note for note, that makes it easy for practise at home and for deps but I think they are the most boring songs to play (and perhaps most boring for the audience too) with zero creative input, might as well have a DJ if the aim is to sound exactly like the original. -
Ibanez EHB 1005 MS £750 Excellent condition, just some very small signs of use that won't show up on photos, a shop could get away with selling it as ex display or an 'open box' return rather than as second hand. With Ibanez gig bag. 3.4kg. Bought new less than a year ago. NYXL strings fitted a few months ago (they're an improvement on the stock ones it came with). Specs: https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/ehb1005ms_1p_02.html Collection from Chichester, or I'm in Central London on Mondays. I have the Ibanez box it could potentially be posted in (will add a photo of that once I've retrieved it from the loft). As a 5 string I think these are hard to beat: Clear 35" B string, even tone across strings and comfortable to play the multiscale, ergonomic and about as lightweight as any 5 string you can get - but still well balanced with no neck dive, compact for carrying and using at pub gigs with small stages, a lot of different tones, passive/active switch, decent 3 band EQ with sweepable mids, stays in tune. These are great basses with just two annoying things: Fret markers are difficult to see and the locking jack socket needed two hands for you to remove the cable (one to press the button in and one to pull the cable out) which I found a faff. I've addressed both of those: Glowtec Lumo fret stickers (high quality, cost me about £20 with postage, they stay in place well but are removable if you want) and I took the small spring out of the jack socket so it doesn't push in to lock (I still have the small spring so it could be put back in). I keep buying these Basses (this is my third one!) when I feel I 'need' an active 5 string, then after about a year I feel I 'need' a passive 4 string...no particular reason, sometimes there are some new songs for the band that require the B string and then sometimes there's a whole set with no need for it gets me thinking a 4 would be better, but mostly it is that I'm just fickle and like having new Basses! I'm always a one Bass at a time sort of person as I don't like swapping between different ones especially if different scale lengths or different amount of strings and I always need to sell a Bass to fund the next one so I continue the annual cycle of selling 5 string to get a 4 and vice versa. I have seen one specific 4 string Bass I want, I might remove this advert if that sells first.....and if I do get that one then this time next year when I feel I 'need' an active 5 string again I'll probably sell it to buy one of these again! My Feedback: -
My teacher did sort of convince me to try and get more into classical stuff as there is so much to choose from and can see how the theory/progression developed over time, and with a few examples he demonstrated how the concepts can often be applied to pop and rock music. Although I suppose he didn't convince me enough as I'm going for 'Tarantella Twist', 'Always with Me (from Spirited Away)' and 'The Muppet Show Theme' for Grade 3 pieces so all from the last 50 years and not particularly classical!
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What new gear should be produced?
SumOne replied to Jean-Luc Pickguard's topic in General Discussion
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I thought that it was a good feature that if you wanted it can be used as a guitar/bass tuner, and use it live for the amp sims and effects (including xy screen), so could feasibly be a decent enough guitar/bass multi fx for one gig and with a different band use it for samples etc. Feels like they are nearly at the point of being able to do it all.
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As anticipated, there is about to be a new Nord Electro 7: https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/clavia-unveils-nord-electro-7-with-fully-fledged-synth-section-redesigned-interface-and-much-more Looks good, main thing being a synth section and Organ sound updates. It costs more than I was expecting though (£2500 for the 73 semi weighted). I'm still very happy with my Viscount Legend One choice, not least as it is £1k cheaper.
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Nice one, it's a shame these don't seem to be quite there for live guitar/bass stuff. (and if you decide to sell the 404 Mk2 give me a shoult as I'm interested in it from a sampling and drum machine perspective). As the MPC and the SP 404 Mk2 both have guitar inputs and live effects - including guitar sims they seem in theory to be almost there, and the new KAOSS pad has guitar input so they have at least given some thought for how it can be used to live process the guitar/bass. I wouldn't expect any of them to be as good as bass specific multi fx for that specific thing, but with them being able to also work for effects with keyboards, vocals etc and for the MPC and SP to also work as samplers and drum machines and sequencers has me interested. I expect though that with this current hardware it is still probably cheaper and more efficient to get a bass/guitar specific multi-fx with footswitches, and if I want a hardware sampler or drum machine then to get them separately just for that specific use. It doesn't feel too far off that there will be something that does cover all of the things well enough for live bass effects, they seem to basically have the processing power to do it - it's just how it is accessed, a simple way of adding midi footswitch integration to change through presets would be important.
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New products announced at NAMM 2026: Pedals: Boss GX-1B Tech 21 SansAmp Programmable Bass Driver & Geddy Lee Amalgamation Signature Chorus Bass: Andertons have a list The main thing so far seems to be that Ibanez have a new 'Mode' range of active Jazz types. https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/model/mdm/ And some other stuff that might be of interest: Korg KAOSS Pad V effects pad Korg microAudio interfaces Nord Electro 7 keyboard
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Yeah, I feel they aren't quite there for live stuff yet, they clearly now have an eye on the guitar/bass market but more from a home studio perspective. I think a few tweaks like the things you mention could really help, mounting points is a good call - surely wouldn't add much cost but these things rarely have them. The KAOSS pad having RCA I/O isn't ideal, having stuff like XLR would be great but you usually need to go pretty high-end guitar/bass multi fx to have it included and unfortunately even quite expensive multi-fx specifically designed for live guitar/bass often have those external PSUs and weak cables, you need to go quite high-end before getting the more professional sturdy stuff so I guess the cost/size and multi-region thing is a bit prohibitive. I'd like to see them really think through how someone would use these things live for guitar/bass perhaps with then mounted on a stand and using a a midi footswitch pedal to change presets and turn effects on/off etc, they all have midi in/out and USB interfaces so I assume it is technically possible but would probably be a world of tech faff.
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New Korg KAOSS Pad V announced: "KORG probably took a look around the music-making environment and realized that there are a lot of guitarists buying pedals these days. With them in mind, the new KAOSS PAD has a Hi-Z jack for accepting guitar and bass DI. “A dedicated high-impedance input makes it easy to connect electric guitar or bass directly with no additional hardware required,” says KORG. “Explore textures like ambient swells, rhythmic modulation, time-based glitch effects, or reverb soundscapes, all shaped by simple fingertip control.” https://www.gearnews.com/korg-kaoss-pad-v-studio/ The last bit 'all shaped by fingertip control' is going to be the issue, my fingertips are usually somewhat busy when playing bass! But I guess some things like chorus can just be turned on/off as a preset and dynamic stuff like playing a long note and then use the KAOSS to add tape echo and changing rate and feedback with fingers for a dub sort of effect could work. There's a change in the air with big companies like Korg, Akai, Roland all recently releasing units that properly include Guitar/Bass as a use. Being mass produced units selling to a much wider audience you get a lot of bang for your buck - and they can also be used for vocals, keyboards, production etc. They all lack footswitch control though, perhaps that can be added available via their midi controls.
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Nice, looks good. I like the hexagon buttons that light up - very clear to see what effects are on/off and is quick to edit their parameters. I'm not sure but perhaps a bit confusing with the labelling as isn't it the case that the effects won't always be in that order? It looks like it is limited to about 8x effects in the chain and it seems there is no parallel signal processing, the effects list looks similar to the other GX pedals and the and GT (perhaps a couple of slight niche limitations like the Tape Echo has upto 3 playback heads and I seem to remember the GT having upto 4). I don't think those things are really much of an issue, it is quite rare to really need signal chains with more than 8 things on and most of the effects have clean blends. No effects loop could be an issue for some. A couple of nice features that aren't on the more expensite GX and GT pedals: Can be battery powered (4x AA batteries), and built-in bluetooth for playing along to. For fitting in the gig bag for rehearsals and being battery powered I'd quite like to see an even more compact version without the expression pedal as you do have the option to add one. That smaller size would also be good for fittting it onto pedalboards like people do with the Stomp and Core, fx loop would be useful for that use though. So yeah, looks good - but a smaller version without the expression pedal but with fx loop would be ideal for me. £228 from Thomann ....GX-10 is £70 extra and that has bigger screen that's a touchscreen, parallel processing, longer effects chains, effects loop, but doesn't have bluetooth or battery power or the hexagon lights so it's a tough call.
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Half of one of these?!
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All good thanks, me and my daughter went and we are now set up for 1hr a week (30mins each). It's at a music academy (although that makes it sound posher than it is, it is a bit of a shabby building next to a train station) which is quite a cool and inspiring place as you walk past rooms of people learning drums, singing, guitars etc. He was good at tailoring things, had my daughter playing a game linked to an iPad to make horses race as you play the right notes - which had her wanting to carry on with it at home. And had me improvising I IV V chords in root/third/fifth positions as he played basslines - which inspired me to do some new rehearsing routines. And he's already getting me set up to learn some songs that I can play with the Hammond sounds with the Band (Liquidator, Green Onions) rather than purely going down the Grade route. Trinity grades looked more appealing to me but this teacher does ABRSM and as it seems like he won't ridgedly stick to it for all the teaching I think we'll go with that (he can do Trinity if we want but he doesn't have the materials to copy/lend). He confirmed that I am on about Grade 3 for playing and theory. Interestingly, he recommended I don't bother spending time on theory much at this point and to not bother with theory Grade tests until Grade 5 as that's where it is necessary to progress to the next Grades, he said I'd pick up a lot of what's needded as I do the performance stuff.
