Hi Shanks, I would say if you are really forced down the MIDI route, then capturing the articulations of a bodhran is going to be tricky. I would suggest that a bodhran is far more expressive than say a regular snare drum with a stick (And even they can be very expressive) so trying to trigger a ...

In fairness, I think you'll be hard pushed to buy something with worse performance! When I upgraded mine, I went from a top of the range i7 (from before i9s existed) to a middle range i5 with a significant uplift in performance. As far as the formfactor goes, unless you have a real burning desire ...

Funnily enough, this has happened to me just last night. (I have a flashing LED on the power button, but failure to boot or do anything else) After a bit of googling, my check list for this evening is: Un plug all peripherals, only have keyboard and monitor plugged in. 1) Remove all my PCI cards 2 ...

I don't know about the JSFX load, I guess it is what ever pushes it over the edge. Is there a CPU load meter in Reaper? Maybe you can see what has the most impact enabling and disabling different plugins. Its a bit like in Apollo 13 when they are trying to find the right order to re-fire up the ...

Ooo! A fellow Jamstixer! I'd be lost without it. Another option might be to print (record) the MIDI output from Jamstix. Then you can do away with Jamstix altogether. That might relieve the CPU burden without need to freeze. (Actually, I would just de-activate the Jamstix plugin, but leave it in ...

For what it is worth, I bought this one in the end...

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It arrived today and seems very well constructed with good soldering and decent heatshrinking inside the connector and on the tails. Will report more when tested.

So I recently 'won' a G System on ebay - so far very pleased with it. It has relays built in for amp channel/reverb switching which will obviously not work with the Blues Deluxe Reissue. However, an internet search shows some people are suggesting a custom cable to connect the FBDR to a conventional ...

Just be careful if you are using any external (out of the box) processing, in which case it might matter. You need to make sure your timing compensations are all set up correctly. If you are all in the box, it shouldn't make any difference.

Stu.

Ah no worries Sam, sometimes its helpful to remind Granny! Separating the unit so the brain is sat on the amp and hence short cables is definitely an option and use a long CAT 5 cable to the floor board. But splitting it just means more stuff to carry! Things being as they are, I'm going down the ...

hmm.... I'm pretty au fait with the 4CM method and how it relates to the preamp section and the power amp section of the combo and the various fx positions. What is throwing me is the fact that the manual says to use balanced cables where normally you wouldn't. I'm connecting it 4CM to a JCM900. but ...

I recently bagged a TC Electronics G-System from the Bay of E. I want to set it up using the 4 cable method as it is intended. The manual suggests that for best results use balanced cables as it has the pseudo balanced circuitry built in to help with noise management. I want to use a stage snake to ...

There will be an EQ element. Hearing loss is rarely an equal loss across the full frequency spectrum. Typically there is an erosion of the high frequencies, but in my case I have a significant loss in the mids to low highs, then better response to higher frequencies. Modern hearing aids do exactly ...

I think the appropriate search term is "M6 bolts with cup washers and captive nuts". Any reputable supplier that google throws back will be fine, you don't need special graded steel bolts or anything like that. I'd probably avoid Temu and the likes. I got mine from Amazon and the bolts are still ...

So I revisited the the software and got it all working. I have to say, it sounded very good through my monitors. Through headphones, not quite so much, but non-the less. very good. The monitor thing is a little weird, there is a single button that turns on monitoring of all record enabled tracks ...

I had a go with this last night. (Windows and Android) Unfortunately I couldn't get live monitoring to work. I could record, and play back with fx, but could not monitor live. Admittedly. I did not RTFM, but I have used and set up.many a different DAW without needing the manual. I'll have another go ...

I'm sure more experienced will chime in, but I'd say not. If someone listening to your mix on a system that is not eq'd in the same way, then that mid frequency will stand out as too loud. Because you will have mixed it to sound right, but starting from scooped mids, you'd have to lift them up to ...

Would a volume pedal in the FX loop help here? I have a Blues Deluxe Reissue and I bought a widget comprising a potentiometer and two 6.35 plugs spaced to fit directly into the send/return of the FX loop. It works quite well as a faux master volume.

Stu.

I think I had 'True Temperament' in my head... don't know how that is different to equal temperament, but the frets look like the pic in the link....

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasf ... /#lightbox

I'd like a good method for coming at this from the other end. How can you easily make strum rhythm from some MIDI chords. I've seen methods for painstakingly staggering each chord note to make a strum, but it is very laborious, especially if you want a complex or busy strumming pattern. In a perfect ...

I think the temperament is a function of the fret spacing... find an image of an equal temperament guitar with the wonky frets. Intonation is about aligning the string length to the fret board while also accommodating all the irregularities already discussed. Regardless of whether you have an equal ...

I took Elf's suggestion as using the volume pedal to swell the note to get the slow attack. I wonder if I could combine that with a hard gate so the note abruptly ends at a certain volume. Not sure if I can get the gate to work inversely. I also have a bass bow effect which takes off the attack ...

I am doing a gig in which we do a song where the solo begins with a short section of George-Harrison-esque reverse solo. Obviously live, I have to play it forwards, but are there any suggestions on how I might get a reverse solo vibe from a passage played forwards? I think its all in the attack (or ...

I take a slightly different approach. I use only one reverb, fed by three group tracks. I set the predelay up with a standard delay for each depth (AMB A, B &C) and apply the appropriate EQ to attenuate the HF on each group. I even made a spreadsheet to calculate the delay length and EQ attenuation ...

Knight Guitars out in Addlestone did a great job on my acoustic.