LukeFRC

This is very much a tangent from discussing a lovely new pedal though

Except there’s no sales tax buying out of state in us - so cost price is cost price and then vat is added for us at import. the system HMRC set up is that they wanted international sellers to pay and register and collect the VAT for them. Obviously that’s not something a small seller would the burden and cost of, I get the feeling a lot of them will just include the VAT in their territory put it in the mail and let it get charged UK VAT on top. it’s all a bit rubbish

In my understanding The difference is the way that our government have tried to implement vat collection is fairly onerous for small businesses abroad - so for someone like Thomann it’s no problem and they can carry on like before, but some sellers like panda audio just have one price and don’t seem to have an export price - so effectively you get charged twice

Your Aguilar board is cute though, and @admiralchew doesn’t have one of them

Isn’t the space bottom right where the tuner is designed for expression pedals? Or is your one too long or something?

Is there a way to listen to if the board is sending midi out? (And on what channel)

Very good - just basically for organising events, kids work, comms and everything. Rotas for worship is just a tiny part. I’ve got it so my weeks worship rota syncs to the family calendar, I can arrange swaps and just put them in the system and it updates it for everyone. It’s also fantastic for safeguarding means we can document every kids work session without effort. We have an iPad screwed to wall and parents register kids on arrival and take numbered wrist band. We then register kids and adults (all dbs checked) and manage ratios etc. and at end swap children for wrist bands. Previous church had registration set up to printer and printed sticker that got stuck on child back… doing this properly without it would be really laborious Events can be added and registration and payment (if applicable) can all be done via church suite.

like, a real one?!

metal neck? on a jazz bass with some multi coil pickup and a thunderbird one in the bridge?

I'm going to have to go find a picture of your board and then work out how much of it is modulation! Is modulation and stuff level 1, 2 or three of the board

I feel a great disturbance in the force...

Zoom ms70 cdr does a lot of ambient ness but not in a massively modifiable way once it’s on

I forgot that - used tend to go for more mind!

The last few on here secondhand have been £300-320 ... they are about... Is it end of line? Well yes and no. It's a digital effect... at some point it's going to be outdated, probably in more than 20 years time, but still.... will there will be some new shiny thing in the future, yes, will the "upgrade" be much more than what the Helix line is now? Maybe modelling of guitar amps maybe, but I question how much difference/improvement it would make for bass where the needs are slightly different... Also the last update was only a few months ago, and the HX one has just come out, while it's clearly a way of spinning the line out (like a mid stage face lift on a car) it's not like they could not support something thats only just come out.... And, crucially, is there anything out, in a similar price bracket with the similar features that is better? not really. (total curveball, if you wanted the volume/wah the full size Helix secondhand loose more value than the stomp, and in some ways for big digital multifx it has more competition than the stomp)

Still getting love @neepheid?

I have had the Zoom B3, then B3n (and still a MS70cdr) and the HX is a step up IMO. It is more than good enough. And you can buy that and know it's as good as you can get for your money... I was looking recently for a digital pedal but only for delay reverb and some modulation.... the choice was cheap (the MS70cdr) through to expensive (H90) and in the middle the HX ... which I don't think anything gets close to feature set etc. That said I did sell mine - but that was to move away from digital multifx

The HX stomp, in my mind is in a class of its own. If you're going digital effects, for price/size/features and everything it's well worth it. It is exactly this. ESP if you're thinking of guitar it's even more useful. Of your current pedal board it can replace everything but the volume pedal and wireless. And they hold value secondhand consistently, which can't really be said for the sonicake.... I would just find a HX stomp secondhand... if you don't like it, sell it on

(just for Andy)

You know for the next one you're going to have to find some vintage Yamaha BBs

No idea! Holding it on the router maybe?

Quoting a post from another thread… the “bollards” are machine bolts that go into the threaded metal inserts set into the body

Nah, he’s got at least one more board to build first!

The post were Sam has nothing she hasn’t programmed herself in some way!!