Woodinblack

Ah, ok. The only genuine Model D I ever played drifted like mad, maybe it was a duff one!

Is that not authentic though? Joys of analogue!

They are - there are all those mini effects that are basically the same as the full size effect but without a battery compartment, so they can be smaller. If you are making a pedalboard layout it makes sense. I prefer ones with batteries. I agree at some point but there are some knobs that change something, but there is no real descriptive name for what it does. You have to call it something (or you could put a symbol on, but does that help?). I think it is the other way round. Something becomes rare or unavailable, it then instantly becomes desirable. If those things were still made, there would be nothing like the same level of interest. Plus there is the 'xx years old, must be better', where just because something is old it is desirable. Like people buying Kays!

I had looked at these. The wiring, preamp and basic bart pickups show that they are made in the same place as the 3 digit ibanez's, looks pretty much the same as probably about as inspiring, which still being a fundamentally reasonable bass. Sadly there aren't so many around, as I had thought if I could find one cheap and put nords in them it would be an interesting thing.

Well, the polytune existed before the unitune. Certainly I don't use the poly part on the bass, but it is handy on the guitar. One strum and you can tune it all, couple of seconds and you are done.

Yes, the red wires are jumpers. the fender player had humbucker pickups, but in two positions, the humbuckers aren't on and they are single coils, so you will get a thinner sound with a bit more noise, a bit more like a traditional jazz.

There is a link here to the switching: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/need-help-fender-modern-player-jazz-v.1355552/

looks good, but I don't think I could afford to be that in tune!

That looks a great colour, I would have been very interested if it wasn't missing a string!

There was a firemist gold on reverb - that one? That is a colour that I really love, but without having time to try it first (or familiarity with any bongos) it was a bit much for me.

Not that pedal specifically, but do run a lot of distortions through the Helix to the ABM. Its about as noisy as you would expect from a distortion pedal, ie, same as any other amp really.

TC Polytune. I have a korg one and a free reverb one too, but the polytune is the good one

Still looks like a very dull overcooked vegatable green to me!

It is odd, but it doesn't rule out a coincidence. I ran mine on a different power supply for quite a while, but the one I had overheated after 3 hours so I went back to the original. Hx is still going fine. If it worked with that plug once, then it wasn't probably that plug. Obviously that doesn't help you much. I always panic when I turn my HX on and fails to boot (which is not uncommon).

I would say that it isn't the plug, I used mine with a plug like that for a while (I only stopped when I went back to the original plug as it stuck out too much).

Not me but I got the SY200 as I was using the Sy-1 a lot and decided I wanted to be able to save programs

Yes, if you do a reverse image search, it goes to a japanese page about elixir strings.

Why would I want to tune my 5 string 30" bass up that high?

I have briefly been tempted looking at that but that is a colour it would be hard for anyone to love. They did have a white one at bassdirect for a very short time.

HX-Edit works with wine on linux, but TBH, I do all the editing on the unit, but it is handy for copying other peoples patches. Tonelib Zoom (the editor for zoom fx) is available for ubuntu, not sure what linux you have.

Would love to have that! I suppose I could tie it to midi so when I select it from the list in Songbook it changes patch, but it would be another thing to wire up

Well, yes, as random as a computer can get is way more random than is needed for making a very random playlist.

That is random though, or as random as a computer can get, which is effectively very random. But humans are built to detect patterns, and if there isn't one, we will make one. Thats why sometimes you see something, and then loads of references to that thing come up, your brain is looking for it. Also, it is a random shuffle (like with cards), noone would want a random selection, as it would be just as likely then when you play a song, the same song would play next then any other song.

Depends on what you want to use. I gig with a Helix HX-FX. I don't use patches, I just use it as 6 entirely separate effects that I turn on and off, with additional filtering, so I have overdrive, pitch up, chorus, reverb, long echo, short echo and also use it as a line in for a sample player. Our set is never in the same order and the song comes up often with no warning, which is why i don't want to search patches. So effectively It is like 6 stomp boxes (I have a couple of other boxes too). I have a B1-Four that I use in the house and when I am at practices and can't be bothered to take the pedalboard. And a B3n which.. sits around doing very little!