Woodinblack

Balanced or unbalanced configurable? hmm.. I will have to see if I can find an option..

Indeed - normally I would just assume it is screwed (and it probably is), but wondered after reading it was a trs, if there was some option. I am guessing not, so I am assuming I will have to see how bassdirects famed customer support is

This doesn't seem promising - is this a fail or a setting does anyone know? I mean I know it is a fail, but I read somewhere that the outputs are balanced, so maybe there is an option to set it to not balanced that I haven't found? I didn't realise i posted 2 videos, but now added a youtube format video as well! dwarfPlug.mp4 dwarfPlug.mov

I think it is different with things like the C4 and other synths (and other effects like the dwarf) in that you can't edit everything on the unit. There is nothing you can do in the sy300 editor that you can't do on the SY300 itself.

I wouldn't expect it to come with a USB lead. I think a device has to come with all necessary leads, so a printer for instance has to come with a USB lead, unless it is wireless. The SY300 doesn't need a USB lead to operate, and I assume most people who have one will never use the USB lead, so its an option. But you are right about the adapter.

Its surprisingly easy, and by that I mean I had no problem with it, and the result was excellent. Covers a multitude of sins

I was joking, I am not patriotic at all, it just so happens that I have an Ashdown amp* (amongst others) as I like it, a british cab** (because it is the basschat 1x12 that I built from the description on here), a british cable as there is a company on ebay that makes whatever size and type of cable that are good, and a british bass***, in fact 3, 1 I made, one another forum member made and one Mr Shuker made. I know what you mean for the house, that is why I got the 1x10 warwick speaker (it was a damaged B stock, so cheap), and a Bam200 amp, my room is crowded and since I started using the BC112 speaker live, it is no longer in my room, so I wanted something small to practice on. * and 2 TC Electronics and bugera ** and 2 TC Electronic 1x12 speakers and a 10" warwick *** and.. oh lets not go there!

I would say the power supply issue is bigger than the USB issue. You can get a USB cable for next to nothing at any supermarket or other shop, the adaptor required is less common and more expensive. I have about 50 usb cables around, but not sure which software you mean? I haven't tried any of that (and I doubt I would)

Well, I am all patriotic, I can play a british bass through a british cable into a british amp into a british cabinet. Although most of my gigs i end up playing the chinese one!

Same here, it stops me looking

Sorry - we are all playing the ABM EVOs over here

Only if there was something very wrong with the setup assuming a decent kit. Yes, I have played with someone using an electronic kit before, it was great, would love to go back to it, but most drummers are worse luddites than bassists, or even guitarists.

Any pretty wood that isn't manly enough to build a shed with. Not that you would build a coffee table with that either, that ironically tends to be made of the sort of woods that people build basses from like ash or basswood with plastic on. Maybe occasionaly walnut veneered, although the only walnut basses I remember were gibson and fender.

I just got a Gnome 1x10 that was B Stock for £110 which I am going to put with my Bam200 that I got for £86 refurbed. I got it as a home practice thing, but I will take it to a band practice to see how far up it will go!

Indeed - I have seen the full behringer X32 desk for £450 too. I wouldn't buy that either

my bongo ticks all of those boxes, except the no pickguard.

And then another 5 hours getting round the roadworks!

A lack of 5 string option sunburst tort 4+1 headstocks unpainted headstocks (on painted guitars, ok on not painted) passive basses, or more specifically, passive basses with controls

Similar to the SY1000

Arm keyboard - that is what I need!

Not really, they don't work well on those, specifically the spacing is a bit of an issue (less than bass, more than guitar) but also the same reason as a bass. Purely down to frequency. THe roland GK systems have the best tracking you can get, they have researched it more than anyone else and they cheat a bit to get the frequency, but ultimately you don't know what frequency something is until you have seen enough of its wave to work out its time. For a bass note, low E is 41Hz, so one wave every 1 whole wave every 24ms or so. Roland do faster than that which is impressive, but even then there are other frequencies as well to cloud the issue so they pick the note they think it is and then bend like mad to get it to be right on subsequent data (which is why the GKs always sound better than anything fed from their midi ports). Obviously going to the low note of a guitar, the low E is 12ms so way better, and an octave about that, 6ms, you kind of got rid of the issue. I have played the GKs on bass and guitar and frankly it is just better on the guitar. The SY / VG system gets round that by not even trying, it just uses the wave coming in and modifies it. So no lag or anything.

The Guitar synths always did, just the VG system used cosm processing, the GR system used pitch to note, and that always is going to have a delay. Not so bad on a guitar, always a bit slower on a bass (in fact, twice as slow on the e vs e on guitar). Not so bad for synth swells and stuff, but for staccato notes, you have to predict that delay and play early, which is easy enough to do but does require a change in technique. Or just play it higher, in which case, use a guitar, then you can do the bass on it with the synth

They haven't abandoned it, it is still in the Sy synths, although in the SY1-300 it is the whole instrument. Does the SY1000 not do the individual notes that way, or is that why they are boss rather than roland?

Pretty up close and personal! Last night of a local pub, and they had invited us earlier this year based on the strength of a previous performance. Couldnt move in the pub and considering how cold it was inside, this was one of the warmest gigs! Went pretty well all in all!

Can't say I am surprised - it was one of those sort of buildings that looked put up in a hurry. I used to like the browse and occasional buy - it was convenient in that when shopping in bristol, my wife could go to the other shops so i got a time for a proper look. There is nothing else where they are so she would be with me and bored.