What coffee shops do you visit? :) Being home-based I don't get to go to many coffee shops, so I get my fix via mail order from a coffee shop on Old Compton Street in Soho. This is our house blend if you visit chez Arkie https://algeriancoffeestores.com/collections/house-blends/products/algerian ...

Arpangel wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:49 am I'd start with the Behringer System 100, a 110 module, plus a Behringer rack and PSU for around £100

FFS - there really is nowhere to hide my wallet!

Being a guitarist, I already have an effects pedal addiction! I was going to say that I'm slightly saved in that (unlike effects pedals which are usable on their own) you would need to spend the cost of a medium pedalboard to get all the modules for a functioning synthesiser. Then I noticed Amazon ...

I didn’t need to see this thread. Oh dear!

BJG145 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 2:27 pm So Moog was a klutz? Next you'll be telling me Buchla was a druggie...

Against the vanishing possibility that anyone happening upon this thread doesn't know the story ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/ne ... eful-dead/

tea for two wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 10:37 am

Wonks wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 11:07 pm Today I had a nice trip out, along with Dave B and Arkieboy.

Be careful with that, Zukan might do one of his famous photoshop jobs ...

Could have phrased it better. Definitely considering an amp purely for the studio, Wonks, although a Hurricane would be far more useful. The problem with the MkII is there’s a disparity between what owners think they’re worth and what buyers want to pay for them. So I’m not holding out much hope of o ...

(I was even more surprised to see this pop up - for a moment I wondered if there had been some username snafu and it was someone else’s question) I do hope the JMP1 can be fixed at least - I have both the valvestate (8080) power amp and the 9100 I can pair with it. It might anyway be time to move on ...

(This was actually my third visit to a guitar production facility - I visited the Patrick Eggle Coventry factory when I had my red Berlin built, and I went to the Gibson Memphis facility before it closed while in town on an ISO working group meeting)

We were regaled with all sorts of stories about how GS guitars were originally built - lots of which were both astonishing and amusing.

A thoroughly enjoyable and educational morning.

Does the Fractal device have anything like The Helix's massively useful "Set List" facility which allows you to rearrange the order of your presets without needing to copy and paste and potentially overwrite something that you wanted to keep? I’m not sure I know what you mean by that - you can swap ...

I thought about getting some Fractal FX, but after reading this thread, no thanks! looks horrendously complex. Don't mind them, they're off on one!!! Lots of modern synths also have more than 128 programs and you'll need to send additional bytes if you want to pick them up by midi. OR when you ...

+1 here for MIDI guitar

As a dedicated/committed/addicted/sectioned/moribund* guitar synth person, I'd be the first to say if you're playing live you need some hardware. But for guitar into MIDI into DAW I don't think it can be beat.

*delete to taste

I think it is - I've heard multiple accounts that big lumps of (germanium transistor containing) Fuzz Face enclosures on cold stage floors sounding different in comparison with a warmer studio. I don't think that's going to be the case with more modern and complex designs, but the early fuzz units ...

I’ve never played an acoustisonic so can’t really comment. As to comparisons with the 88 and the 99 I can be more definitive having owned both. Particularly now Boss have ironed out some of the bugs in the pitch shifting, the acoustic sounds on the SY-1000 are much closer to how you would expect the ...

... as to VSTs, Jam Origin has the Midiguitar product that does some string processing. I think the next version - 3 - will have more of this as it has a hexaphonic mode, separating the strings so your regular pitch and wave shaping effects have the best chance with a clean signal

That was a nice vid. Personally I preferred the silicon version - I could imagine using it in my own music - with the germanium one sounding a tad more late 60s. The transistors are one of those cork-sniffing things so it will be interesting to see what Berry have done here. There are videos of the ...

Ha! Not that £4,600 Klon I just found on Ebay I trust? Finnegan, who commissioned the design of the Klon and ran the business from a card-playing table in his house engaged JRocket IIRC to produce the first mass-production version of the Klon - the original KTR. When they fell out but JRocket ...

They do The Boss SY-1, the Boss SY-200 (a 'programmable' SY-1), and the boss SY-300 all have just a ¼" jack input, and operate solely on processing the guitar's regular pickup signal. The Boss SY-1000 will operate either using a hex pickup or a regular jack input. It has something called the ...

ef37a wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 7:24 am Do not be fooled people. "True Bypass" is just a way to make things a little cheaper and charge you more for the privilege!

Dave.

I'm not. My first pedal after my wah is a JRockett Archer with that lovely Klon Centaur buffer permanently in circuit.

Those circuit variations slaughter several sacred cows in the guitar electronics world. Input resistance is never more than 100k, not the "magic meg" and in the case of the Marshall version, just TEN K! And don't worry about 'tone suck' with long leads? Input capacitance is 10,000 pf or 15,000pf ...

I suspect at this end of the market 90% of the guitars plugged into the Tone Bender clone will be Strat, Tele or Les Paul clones. I’m not so sure - I have a couple of really cheap FX on my board at Wonks’ recommendation: the Caline Pure Sky is a fab take on the Timmy, and is a permanent fixture, do ...

I can't see how we can justify demonising Behringer for producing a clone of the Tone Bender and not criticise JHS and Warm Audio for doing the same thing? I agree. The Warm Audio version ought to be more objectionable, but it’s more than twice the price too … Josh Scott often brings trade dress int ...

Of course the problem here is that lots of records I love were created with a Tone Bender Mk2, and £50 could be buried from the better half a lot more easily than a JHS Bender or the Warm Audio clone …