Just a thought, there are a couple of things in readers ads that are priced suspiciously low, just wondering if they may be scams, they are quite obvious if you know the scene, keyboards, synths.

I’ve been using an 1820 for about four years, previous things included M-Audio, and Focusrite Saffire, never, ever had an obvious issue with the Berry, also, I’ve no intention of upgrading.

I’ve been using an Arturia Keylab 37 for a while now, and I really don’t like it, I broke it recently, repaired it, and still hate it. It’s got so much on it I never use don’t want to use and don’t understand, all I need is a small keyboard which outputs CV pitch gate and mod, that also has an inbuil ...

This could be very beautiful, but it’s a bit schizophrenic, it sounds like it’s had a bubbly filter added to provide a more commercial feel, the result IMO is it’s trying to please too hard. If I were to mix this I’d ditch the bubbly filter, add more good quality reverb, some Eventide magic, and poss ...

Bob Bickerton wrote: ↑Thu Nov 27, 2025 10:02 pm
Now if it only had a decent meter........

Bob

The curse of all pedals, that’s why I still buy rack effects.
As for distortion, pay for it? It’s all over the place here! All I have to do is overload the inputs of anything I own, especially my Mackie mixer, which has great distortion.

CR78, or, get a cheap secondhand home organ, some of those are well worth having.

If it had a psychedelic paint job, it would be worth it.

Wonks wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:42 pm

tacitus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 8:48 pm

Arpangel wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 8:13 pm I bought the cheapest on Amazon, about £4, they are thick, so they must be good.

So there’s hope for me yet?

You'll never be as good as Arpangel.

At being cheap!

I bought the cheapest on Amazon, about £4, they are thick, so they must be good.

Buy a Behringer Odyssey if you want extra snappy bass, the Odyssey is well known for it.

My wife’s birthday, we thought "we’d better have some music" so we hired a pianist, thinking back on it, he really wasn’t necessary, he played pretty bland standards, and no one really took any notice. Last New Year we organised a party for our gardener/ handyman without whom we could not survive. It ...

Talking of buying anything, soon they’ll be paying us to take it away.
Behringer are doing the Wave for £479, and a lot of their Eurorack modules are under £30 now, that means mine are virtually worthless.

This is an amazing place with very friendly people, they even moved one of their cars for my wife so we could park near the door as she couldn’t walk. The Korg exhibition is inspiring, had a great chat with a bloke who helped Vangelis program his sounds, can’t remember his name, all in all a really g ...

This whole covers thing is interesting, not my cup of tea, but it is a very popular and necessary part of musical life. Is it though, or is it at least for popular music? I had a brief stint in a covers band. One of the guitarists was a good friend or mine, and for this reason I had seen them a ...

This whole covers thing is interesting, not my cup of tea, but it is a very popular and necessary part of musical life. Majority of you know my tastes, I had a free-improv band, comprised of different types of musicians, now free-improv is most definitely a minority with a capital M taste, but two ...

I use a mixture of a Phillip Reese Midi splitter, and through sockets, never had trouble with latency, I’m using five devices.

The only piece of old gear I have is a Fostex X-28 4 track cassette recorder from the 90s. I just have a master keyboard, audio interface and a computer now. I feel much happier without any physical devices. I keep the Fostex as a reminder of how ridiculously far things have come in the last 30 ...

Holidays? I don’t like them, I’m always thinking what am I supposed to be having a holiday from? Who was it who said, the problem with holidays is you take yourself along? I'm one of those people who does get attached to objects, but when I've sold synths, it's always been for the right reasons and ...

Inspiration strikes at any time. Still sat in a studio wishing I was somewhere nice on holiday would only produce a Blues track, at best, or nothing at all!! True, inspiration for me though, doesn’t matter where I am, but I guess I’m too lazy to record or don’t want to get distracted on holiday, I j ...

Dave, just had to buy a new oven bulb, looked on Amazon, expensive plus postage, local Toolstation had them for £2.99
Sometimes I automatically look on Amazon, but it’s not always the cheapest by the time they’ve added postage.

Currently unavailable Dave. And personally I would much rather support a proper electronic component supplier like CPC (which is where I bought my last set of probes) rather than line the pockets of a US billionaire. I'm sure that Rapid and Cricklewood also stock similar probes. Cricklewood, CPC ...

I've had a few years where I didn't go on holiday or take a short break and the following year just seemed to grind. Since Garage Band on the iPhone became a reality I've been able to compose while on holiday, not for everyone I grant you because of the small interface, but singing melody lines and ...

If I’m at a pub that has a band, I always ask for Run To You by Bryan Adam’s, if they can’t play that I don’t want to know. Nothing worse than eternal requests at a covers gig. It's rare that you just "happen" to have a requested song known, rehearsed and performance ready. But so many punters just ...

Buying things that are "experiences" like holidays, are a bad investment, especially now, I only spend money things that I will get a return on later, if I need to, like hardware, it’s money sitting there basically. How about a compromise, have the occasional holiday and buy one less synth. ...

If I’m at a pub that has a band, I always ask for Run To You by Bryan Adam’s, if they can’t play that I don’t want to know.