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Day 55 - Linda Ronstadt

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Day 53.5 - Cory Wells Story

Day 53 - My Yard

Day 52 - Judith Owen again

Rick Beato Interview

Day 51 - Wolfgang revisited

Day 51 - Vince Gill

Day 50 - Rubberband Man

Bonus! - Rick Beato - Everyones favourite music You-tuber (after Adam Neely!)

Day 49 - Judith Owen

Yes, the Variax bass will work with the POD HD 500 and the Helix

4 hours ago, Old Man Riva said:

Thanks again to NoirBass.

Pretty much every day for nearly two months NoirBass has taken the time to share these videos... thank you so much!!

They’ve now become part of my lockdown ritual! And whilst some of the actual music may not be to my taste, to be able to watch, listen to and learn from such a consummate and experienced musician as Lee Sklar is wonderful.

It’s a good job he’s played on over 2000 albums!!

I was wondering whether to continue posting these or just add a link to Mr Sklar's YouTube channel. Kind comments like this mean I obviously should continue.

I've hugely enjoyed watching these daily videos too - the mans a genius; whist his bass playing is exemplary, his approach to life and attitude towards others is an even bigger inspiration.   

Day 48 - Vanessa Carlton

Day 47 - JT...

Day 46 - Zevon

I think you’d have to use a GK3 pickup on a Bass VI. That would work fine with the SY-1000 though.

18 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

Does this tuning problem extend to the SY1000? because none of the available 6 string modes (standard guitar or B-C 6-string bass) match the Bass VI for tuning? Besides I thought that in modelling mode it was simply processing the string sound.

I think so, I've just double checked on my VB-99 and you can't specify what the note of each string the unit should be expecting. The modelling and pitch shifting in the unit assumes the pickup is receiving a 'standard' tuning.

*EDIT* on further reading perhaps you can tune the B string to C?

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=28477.0

SY-1000 Software

I find this guy really grating, but this video gives you an idea of how the software works.

Bass VI

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=11283.50

18 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

Interesting. I'm intending to use this with a Bass VI.

So by using the individual string volumes for each instrument block I could have the highest 2 strings only being processed by Instrument 1 and the other 4 only processed by Instrument 2?

The block diagram in the SY1000 manual seems to indicate that the instrument and FX blocks of the same number are always linked. Is this not correct?

One more question (at this stage):

Does sending the device tunings from the controlling instrument other than what it is expecting cause any problems? For instance with the Bass VI the strings are EADGBE (the same as a 4-string bass with two higher strings) while the six string bass option appears to imply a tuning of BEADGC and the guitar option would expect the strings to be an octave higher. Also just to maybe make things more complicated, I actually use EADGCE because I require a drone C on a couple of the songs that we play.

There is a guy on Vguitar forum that has made a Bass VI work with a GK pickup. I believe he used a GK-3, this however would mean that you would have to use a guitar VG unit (like a VG-99) as the GK3 will only work with that. Your other problem would be the C instead of B as the software will only work with the standard B. This could be easily overcome by tuning the string to B and always pitching the string up a semitone in the software. This would mean you couldn't use the direct signal from the guitar though.

Yes, there is a Boss tone studio application for the SY-1000. Your assumptions are correct, you can choose to mute some strings and not others. The FX banks can be dragged around to whichever part of the signal chain you like. I'm not sure about pickups as I've only used the GK-3b, but I'd ask here:

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=321.0

Day 45 - Mothers Day

I am perhaps using the wrong terminology. This article explains that whilst there is some degree of eq to the modelling there are other elements involved in the processing:

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/roland-vg99
 

I also agree that the modelled tone is not the same as using the actual  bass it is modelling, but it’s generally good enough to get the point across. I also find that the closer you move towards the piezo pickup you can change the nuance of the tone.

Yeah, I’ve tried what was suggested above and no, it doesn’t work. You can detune a Variax guitar by about a maximum of a fourth down (Or up) on each string, any more and it just gets really warbly. Even tuning down a forth you’re going to want a good bit of drive on it to mask the pitch shifting.

Pretty close I recon, but you’d need to find instrument ir’s?