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  1. Kiwi
    My family had a succession of siamese and oriental cats from when I was 11 through to 3 years ago. They're fantastic cats, very quirky and interesting, but a bit prone to health issues.
  2. Kiwi
    This is precisely why I like them. Very comfortable for my 194cm frame. I agree about the price though and it looks like a weird Supernatural Calibas love mutant.
  3. Kiwi
    We once had a gig at the top of the Gherkin (aka St Mary's Axe) in the City of London. The load in consisted of driving into the basement and lugging the PA and other stuff into the service elevator and it took multiple lift journeys to get everything to the top. Half way up we had to change lifts as for building code reasons, lifts aren't supposed to go higher than a certain number of floors. So we had to lug everything out of the first lift and into the second, which as a walk around the other side of the central lift cluster. THAT lift then only reached one floor lower than the place we were actually playing in. So everything had to be hauled up one more flight of stairs to the roof space. And the acoustics were terrible. An all glass dome meant frequencies were bouncing around like demented chimpanzees. Nice views though. Then, at the end of the gig, we had to do it all again but this time in reverse.
  4. Kiwi
    I have found most pedals track better if a few criteria are met in the bass. The FI and SB1 both track single pickup basses with limited amounts of high frequencies and lots of mids better than other basses. So that vintage P bass or stingray are just the ticket. That Status Empathy with lots of fret noise probably won't be.
  5. Kiwi
    Brief update - Mimmotronics eventually replied to my FB message and apologised for not seeing it sooner. An EHX Freeze with the wet only mod and soft arcade style button has been ordered - it's a cheaper alternative to the Gamechanger Audio pedal and I avoid paying for features I'm unlikely to use.
  6. Kiwi
    I think what you are suggesting might be true with two conditions: 1) That the starting point was having an SY1000, which is different to where I am as I had already invested in half the pedals in the signal chain anyway, particularly the FI. 2) That there were alternatives to the SY1000, which as far as I can tell there aren't.
  7. Kiwi
    I'm a bit wary of all in one units at the moment. All it takes is for it to do one thing less than expected and the whole unit ends up redundant. Seven pedals is a lot but, as you have probably read, if one doesn't do the job as expected then I can swap it and leave the rest of the pedal board as is.
  8. Kiwi
    Update: I've been doing yet more digging around on Google and on another forum found a comparison of the EHX Freeze with the EHX SuperEgo Plus (basically a pseudo synth and effects pedal) and the Gamechanger Pedal Plus. You might have already heard Gamechanger, they made a pedal that relies on plasma spark to make your guitar sound like a Tesla coil. Anyway, they also make a sustain pedal call the Pedal Plus and it appears to have a wet only output. It's a big pedal but seems to have a lot of potential. https://www.gamechangeraudio.com/pluspedal/
  9. Kiwi
    I've been running a couple since they first came out ten years ago. One of them was second hand and the power caps went futz on me one time as I turned it on. Luckily though I discovered the power amp module was a OEM made by B&O and available separately through ebay. Ninety quid and two weeks later it arrived and the connections were simple enough to install the power module myself. Three years later and we're still going strong. Their lack of mid scoop and a growly bass make them very much part of my sound.
  10. Kiwi
    I was going to recommend them as well. Sei (Martin Petersen) used to get their instruments finished there before getting Simms involved. Simms are insanely expensive for an off-the-street punter. I've finished instruments and yes there's a lot of labour involved in a gloss finish with all that hand rubbing with 800 grit towards the end. But not 850 quid's worth.
  11. Kiwi
    The weak die. Wishing you a warm welcome BTW. ❤️❤️
  12. Kiwi
    I discovered yesterday that there's no triangle wave available in the waveforms of the C4 but it does have a sine wave. Whereas the FI has a triangle waveform but no sine. I"m guessing that's because they sound kind of close but the triangle sounds a bit warmer to my ears. For editing single patches I'm finding the Neuro editor is much much easier to use than the FI. Mainly this is due to the use of pull down menus which shows quickly what is set up and how it's connected to other sections. By comparison, the FI user interface is more like a 70's modular synth so it's necessary to look at the sliders to know what is happening and where signal is going, then imagine how that is connected.
  13. Kiwi
    That would technically make us Batchat. Could be worse, I suppose. Where's Bill Oddie when one needs him...? It's well known that he is partial to a bit of heavyweight funk.
  14. Kiwi
    Fixed it for you!
  15. Kiwi
    OK I'd be happy to do that. But what I'm looking for is basic SHIFT/CTRL+click functionality to select more than one patch at the same time. OK assuming it's plug in and play, I will give that a go and see what happens. Disaster Area have made their micro.Ghost USB to MIDI converter available for use with SA pedals but it's US$89 and the SA Neuro Hub is $99 plus the cost of the footswitches! I'd say it's a negative if I have to spend that much to make the pedal have the same basic functionality as the others on my board. It seems like they prioritised the form factor over connectivity and convenience. A slightly larger box would have allowed a second patch selecting footswitch and both USB and MIDI sockets...consistent with other MIDI capable pedal manufacturers. It's one thing to be ahead of the curve but it's quite another to be leaving people behind and then requiring more dosh (from either them or other suppliers) to give them the basic connectivity in pedals by other manufacturers. I've had a look through the user manual and haven't managed to find a reference to the app sending signals to the pedal via audio. The internal cross referencing hyperlinks in the PDF don't work either. Leafing through the manual also reveals many references to using the pedal with a DAW including justification for using a USB socket. I find this baffling since most composers will already have access to the same functionality in any one of hundreds of MIDI capable keyboards and an arpeggiating functionality in the sequencing software they use. I'd expect most players will be using this pedal to do things live that they can't do in the studio. Well that's an explanation I guess. Having a sparingly used guitar sitting on the lap for half a day while editing a patch isn't convenient. Much better I guess to use some kind of cheap keyboard with a 6.35mm output jack which could connect to the C4. Or the editor can assign an octave of notes to keys on the PC keyboard in the same layout as a piano keyboard and use the Windows GM MIDI wavetable as an audio source. It's been done before. Yes I was aware of it. I mentioned earlier that tapping a patch resulted in a message 'sent to pedal' even when the pedal wasn't connected. When I'm downloading I don't have my bass plugged in. It's inconvenient and uncomfortable to be reaching over it to type or use the mouse for any long periods of time. For short durations it's no problem. Don't get me wrong about the C4. It does the thing I got it for really well. But it's let down by a lack of consideration for finer details of the user. It's like the designers had a set of goals they wanted to achieve that weren't 100% aligned with how people use pedals like this in their pedal boards. They're not alone, I've mentioned something similar about Eventide as well. The Pitchfactor has an arp (which is where this journey began originally) but it's not user programmable...even in the editing software!
  16. Kiwi
    So the C4 and EHX Tri Parallel Mixer arrived courtesy of a personal courier on Friday. The Tri mixer is a nice bit of kit, very smooth operation and noise free. So far I have only been able to scratch the surface of the C4 with the editor in setting up an account, downloading some user patches and assigning them to the toggle switch so I can listen to them. The lack of a MIDI IN/OUT port or the ability to switch between all 128 patches without getting extra kit is a major fail for me. However, the pedal tracks slightly better than the FI and the sounds are full and warm. The need for a wet only Freeze pedal has been confirmed. Hitting a second note while the Freeze is sustaining sends the C4 tracking for the arpeggiator into a garbled mess. The arpeggiator itself is great, the notes are full with good attack and distinction, it's exactly what I have been looking for. The desktop editor is functional but user interface still needs improving. The ability to select multiple patches to save/upload/download/export/import is badly needed. At the moment it is patch by patch. The phone app was confusing to use, it wasn't clear how to get patches into the pedal and I was getting a transferred to pedal message from tapping patches even though the app was clearly not attached to the pedal. It would also be useful to have a way to check the patches using an integrated piano keyboard like the FI's editor has. Also, when downloading and burning a patch the editor returns to the library screen rather than the screen where you were last working meaning it takes a good two or three clicks to get back where you were to do the next save/burn/upload. Next steps will be to sort out some glitchy cables, try and find a modded Freeze pedal from somewhere...given Mimmotronics don't seem to be interested in talking to me. And I will also start setting up some patches for the songs I like.
  17. Kiwi
    A bit late to the game but it's a vectorised graphic.
  18. Kiwi

    The Mandelorian: It's brilliant, really brings the wider Star Wars universe to life. All those incidental characters in the movies get more air time rather than just being links between plot points.

    1. SpondonBassed

      SpondonBassed

      A bit like The Mandalorian then.  Heeheehee.

      I looked it up because, at first, I thought you were talking about a sci-fi version of a mandolin or summat.

  19. Kiwi
    I'll put the kettle on then. Watch out for congestion around Istanbul.
  20. Kiwi
    Yep I got that and when I was gigging, all of my gigs had PA support and an engineer so horses for courses I guess. In any case, the F112 can be stacked on its end if the wedge function isn't needed for some gigs.
  21. Kiwi
    I'm daft enough. But you'll have to collect it.
  22. Kiwi
    Unless the engineer takes a feed out of the DI socket on the amp (assuming of course that you have an engineer and PA reinforcement). I don't believe loud stage volumes are helpful in any case. I actually left one band because the drummer was too loud. When he lowered the volume we played so much tighter but he just couldn't keep the beast chained up for long.
  23. Kiwi
    Yep speculative. It's arriving next week but it's a no brainer. I have bought next to nothing in 2019 apart from a Moment Machine, an EHX Freeze and a Adrenalinn 3 plus a small 4 channel mixer and that signal switcher. The C4 is highly anticipated. Happy to delete if it's not in the spirit of the thread though.
  24. Kiwi
    I was in the same situation a few years back and went with a couple of F112. I have been really impressed by them. In a BC gear shoot out a few years back my cab was up against a BB2 and (to my ears at least) had more detail in the high end and a flatter response - just like a PA cab. Other BCers seem impressed by it too but I thought the F112 perhaps didn't get the full recognition it deserved by the crowd towards the end of the shoot out. We all like different things I guess. I chose the F112 because of the stiff construction and it came in a wedge format which meant I could hear myself more easily on small stages. The bulk of air wasn't being shifted past my knees like in conventional set ups. It's a great cab, I know of nothing on the market which is better at the moment.
  25. Kiwi
    I don't have the disposable income these days with businesses sucking it all up while they get established. So mine are modest: Best pedal is probably going to be the Sonic Audio C4...once it arrives. Worst was a Hosa SLW-333 desktop line switcher. Described as in good condition but the threads around a number of the sockets had been stripped because the sockets were poor quality and the sole PCB connector kept popping off. Cost more to ship the bloody thing than the purchase price and by the time I actually got my hands on it, I couldn't leave feedback.
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