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Just the two of us - Grover Washington & Bill Withers

A couple of excellent posts!

There's also a used GT1000 Core with your name on it (kinda literally, if you registered it 😅) to consider? 😊

This ^^^^^^^

Music Store, and ordered the £12 midi cable at the same time to take advantage of the free delivery when bought with the pedal so £317 all in. Oooh speaking of which, that's another extra for £20 that the FI has over the MXR, I'll update my list!

Indeed, it's just intuitively I'd expect all FRFR cabs to sound the same, but many sound utterly lifeless and the Monza doesn't. The answer is presumably that not all FRFR cabs are created equal, or even truly FRFR.

I think the Levy's one is meant to be used with a female to male extension lead. The bug plugs into the female jack and sits in that pouch then the lead plugs in as per usual. You just need to make sure the lead is the right length.

Does he mean "use a time amp! = Essential!" or "use a time amp != Essential!" as the two have opposite meanings[1] and you need to be sure the space is in the right place, which, given his failure to write "your" instead of "you're", seems only about 50% likely. And are time amps going to succeed tonewoods as the next big debating point? Can you get timewoods? [1] They do to a programmer anyway

I like the sound of my GRBass AT212; in a shootout with a Monza it was generally felt it sounds slightly scooped by comparison, bit not far off 'flat'. Both sounded good with a various types of music played through them, and obviously sound great with bass played through them. I have a number of inexpensive all-in-one cabs that sound fine for music or when used as low powered PA that would probably be considered as FRFR (or meant to be). My cheap reference mic suggests they are a bit short <100Hz and above 11 or 12KHz and wander up and down by about +/-5 dB across that range (partly due to me measuring in a living room, I suspect). They sound weak with bass through them, if detailed, and an IR cabsim transforms them. I suppose I ought to (1) see if I can measure the response of my GRBass cab and (2) see what happens if I power it via the Cube Baby.

I’ve had these in my string drawer for ages and would like to know what they are! I had the Rotosounds in the dim and distant past and recall they had yellow silks….but that was ages ago. Could they be La Bellas? The tension is very pleasant. Any help would be appreciated.

I've been eyeing it up too (helps that it has just been payday!). Did you order it from Music Store or direct? I basically have no pedalboard at them moment (well, just a tuner), so if wearing my sensible hat I should probably get a couple of things like compressor and overdrive before the next gig....my amp can do each of those things and it can't make FI type noises (unless something is giong quite wrong!) so I think I might take off my sensible hat and put on this one to get a FI v4

I think they wouldn't need to necessarily reinvent the wheel with captures. If they just included a NAM block, that would probably be enough. That's all the Anagram has done on the capture side. Hiring a UI designer would be a great help, and yes, the apps are all a bit shocking. The load time from selecting the patch on my GX-100 to showing it on mobile/computer editor shouldn't take 10/20 seconds. I don't know what protocol they're using to transmit the data, but it needs to be modernised. I think that they do get so much right with the functionality though, like the options to assign any parameter to any control and the properly seamless preset swtiching. More assigns would probably be on some people's wishlists. Oh, and the wavetable and input assigns to parameters is great too. I personally think that their amp sims do leave something to be desired. I've never been totally won over by them and struggle so much to get them to sound like I want to that I've kinda given up with them. Compared to something like the cheap Sonicake Pocket Master that I've got, where the Twin sounds perfectly useable to me with a few tweaks, the one on my GX-100 just doesn't have the same ease of dialling it in. Adding a good synth would be a good selling point too. And maybe getting all of the effects from the Plugout might be a USP for them? Give it all to the users of the new gen pedal.

Subdivisions - Rush

Well, actually no, and that is where a misunderstanding as how LLMs work, which is quite common really. I am a software engineer, and where I don't have to worry too much about the future as I will probably be dead within the decade, you can't just generate code at the touch of a button (and actually there is no button, it is just autocomplete). An LLM is very good as 'boiler plate' code, stuff you do over an over again, there is a lot of it, and it is good that it farms that out, so it does save time. However, an LLM as discussed here has no inteligence, it just has things it has copied from somewhere else. Its job isn't to solve a problem, its job is to show you 'what a solution to this problem would look like', and that is a huge difference. It is a language process, not a techical process. It doesn't understand the problem, just the overall look of the problem, which is why it is good at language and music. "What would a country song about a clam sound like" is an appearance issue, it doesn't have to know about what a clam is, or how it feels about anything, or why it cares about its truck breaking down or its dog dying. When I first used it it made a complex function which seemed perfectly to do what I asked. When I looked closer I realised it would come out with the wrong results, but it is very hard to spot, and AI can't fix it because it doesn't understand how it works, just how it should look. Its shown really clearly in the 'how many rs in a raspberry' problem that chat GPT had. AI isn't writing about something, it is writing something that it thinks a song should sound like, and for 95% of music that is enough, and it probably will kill a lot of music just because people won't be able to have it as an income, because for a lot of people that sort of music is enough, meaning ultimately music will go back to a niche hobby, like it was in the past, somthing people did for themselves, not for profit, like the guy on the piano in a pub.

Which bass?

With four magnets that's more than a kilo.