All is working perfectly. Acoustics are clean without excessive noise, regular guitar sounds fine. I had a touch of instability on the GR-300 emulation in rehearsal but when I got home I realised I'd not set the string sensitivities - the GK5KIT6 has much more poke than a GK3KIT through the serial ...

Would certainly be lovely to have a 2x12” cab loaded with a pair for home. And from the miked up results, it would work well in the studio too. I’d like to hear that other stupidly loud amp - a Vox AC30 - loaded with peacekeepers to see how manageable it is with them installed. Given Dan’s love for V ...

Nice work Wonks, though I should add that you two don't like to make life easy for yourselves do you... :) I've been making it 'not easy for myself' since I bought a Roland G707/GR700 back in the day. But Wonks is the star who puts up with all of the schemes that I dream up - one half physicist ...

BigRedX wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:05 pm IMO the "scribble strips" on the full version of the Helix Floor are worth the extra cost over the LT.

Unless they’re too small for your eyesight!

I heard no mention of Helix Native, which concerns me slightly. The hardware is all well and good, but it is the hardware/software combo that has kept me hooked. They’re continuing to sell the current Helix line, but they’ve reduced the RRP/SRP. The Helix LT is looking like a bit of a bargain - if y ...

Wonks wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 8:24 am *Barden Hexocaster.

You may have meant to Letraset that on the headstock, but it definitely arrived with an 'a' not an 'o'

Hi Tommy I didn't feel in a position to respond to this at the time as I was still running olde-style 13 pin GK3 guitars. I have since upgraded to GK serial with a GK5 on one of my Eggles. I can confirm that I experience none of these problems with my VG-800. In fact, I think my acoustic models ...

Glad you’ve solved your problem, I think the upgrade is worth it regardless of the amp switching. There are other solutions if you’re reading this and have similar problems - here are a few others … The Behringer FCB1010 has relay outputs that can be programmed with each patch. There’s a European com ...

You're not wrong there - I'm a software dev with 40 years experience, and while conceptually it makes complete sense, actually getting started seems pretty difficult. (Feel free to correct my terminology) How does the requirement of a set of 'scenes' (a bag of patch and controller changes to be sent ...

Will have a look this evening. Thanks Elf!

I think these programmable blocks are absolutely standard across a slew of Boss units - identical to my SY-1000.

Glad to see we've sorted you out though!

You've just scrolled too far on the VG-800. The first part of the delay time setting is in increments of milliseconds from 1 to 2000. The very next single click of the dial after 2000 you hit the subdivisions, the first being 1/32, then 1/16T, 1/32D then 1/16. This continues down the series getting ...

erm ... I have a VG-800 and it does dotted 8ths in all of its delays AFAIR (I've just packed it away for tomorrow's rehearsal otherwise I'd have booted it up to be 100% certain) - you scroll all the way to the end of the delay time and you get the tempo-controlled delay subdivisions. The SY-1000 and ...

Glad everything is sorted, Rob! I had my first rehearsal with the unit today, and I’m definitely feeling an improvement over the SY for plain guitar sounds. I expect if I was Bill Ruppert or Jason Saddites I could dial the SY in as well as the VG, but I’m not, and am appreciating how easy it is to ge ...

For Gibson guitars I do think it is really important to play lots of guitars to at least work out what kind of neck works best for you. (I'm sure there will be sniggers from the back ... but) It feels to me that Gibson are a historic company originally focussed on luthier skills who were dragged to ...

DaveB and I might have to come over mob handed. He's been thinking about going to a laptop for some time - he's currently hacking his way through the latest Yamaha Montage/ModX thingy for Forgotten Gods duties while Kurzweil take their own sweet time to release the smaller 61 key version of their ...

Wonks is completely correct - as usual - I do have a GK-3KIT with a GKC-AD. Issues about noise are not listed in the firmware update, but if you haven't upgraded to 1.02, then I would definitely do that right away. https://www.boss.info/global/support/by_product/vg-800/updates_drivers/b7a22a85-27e9 ...

Excellent vid.

Maybe I am going to have to take a laptop onto stage with me :-/

The midi controller I'm thinking about is described here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88phbJrh7B0 which happily works with a Boss FS-6

I think the 20 snapshot locations might indeed be the limitation - I am in a prog band as you know! But will definitely have a play, and read up on the other software you suggested. At the moment I’m thinking of using Bluetooth both for the foot switches - my two switch AirTurn - and to communicate w ...

MIDI designer - from the SoS review - seems more about control over the internals of particular instruments, rather than managing the overall state of all of your instruments during a gig. Cantible is more the kind of thing I’m thinking about - were MainStage for iOS a thing I’d be looking at it …. ...

(I was thinking iPad more I think for status display and patch coordination within the overall scene of the rig, although I certainly didn’t articulate that clearly). I’m trying to think less in the frame ‘here’s ten scenes you could use in one or more songs’ and more ‘whats the next scene in this so ...

Hi all Here looking for ideas ... Way back when I first bought my second piece of MIDI gear - a Yamaha SPX90 to go with my Roland GR-700 - I started on a path where I've permanently had a box on the floor at my feet with at least four foot switches for patch access for multiple MIDI devices ...

The way the GM-800 and the VG-800 interact is pretty interesting, actually. GK Serial - Wonks will regale you with the details - uses an automotive multi-channel digital audio standard. Which means there are plenty of audio channels left over after the seven dedicated to individual string audio ...

Direct out into MOTU M4 as an amplifier for my Sennheiser HD600s - as pristine as I can manage.