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27 minutes ago, glassmoon said:

That is actually true... anyway, my next step is to figure how I can go from patch to patch without bending down

Tap the middle of the three black dials to get to the "Memory" screen, where you'll see the list of all patches.
Twiddle the middle dial to the patch you use for the first song in your setlist. Tap the right-hand dial to assign it the letter "A". Twiddle to the patch you use for the second song in your setlist, assign it the letter "B", and so forth.
Once you've assigned some letters, pressing the footswitch while on this screen will switch between patches in the order A, B, C, etc.

I'm mostly miffed that they stuck the least talented one on bass

It doesn't need a special cable - I tested mine with a couple of bog-standard USB cables (including one with a barrel) and ToneLib could see it. Could be that you've got a power-only cable, or you're using a power-only USB socket?

Can't find a single review of these anywhere yet. Come on, you lot - someone needs to buy one and report back!
The Strats are allegedly anywhere between 6.6lb and > 10lb 😮

You probably need a new amp as well. And have you thought about a new van to carry it in? 😀

Actual helpful answer:

15 hours ago, b.tarnaras said:

I'm sure it is but that has only distortion and nothing else

Do you want something where the tone controls still function when the distortion is not switched on?

 

18 hours ago, mrbacco said:

 

this is a nice design for a body ... well picked!! I'll try to keep mine a bit more even on the two sides as much s I can, as I like the balanced between the two sides and the even bottom 100% oarallel with pickup and bridge ... (I know ... booooriiing!!!)

 

The thing I really like about it is the way the edges of the two horns form a V, with the body being thicker in that part and the two "wings" being thinner. So something like this...

If you're in the market for a VI, there is rumoured to be a 🤩 silver sparkle ✨ one on the way later this year

 

Cool! Puts me in mind of these:

I once bought a pre-amp from Rob
It did not cost me too many bob
It was quickly despatched
With packaging unmatched
And it worked perfectly - just the job!

I use 5mm graph paper for tabs, as there's no need to even draw any lines. It's easy enough to find spiral-bound books of it.

I bought a Squier neck from Mike. It was a first-class Basschat transaction all round:
✅ Friendly comms
 ✅ Quick despatch
 ✅ Excellent packaging

Thank you very much Mike! 😎👍

It instantly beats the Fender Mod Shop because it lets you have a headstock that matches the body 🤩

The Old Romantics

Spandex Belly
Agadon't

 

Ooh that's gorgeous! Lovely grain on the fingerboard. I've got one of these in burgundy mist.

For the prospective buyer: if you try to fit a new tremolo arm and it turns out that the threads inside the trem block are also chewed (which happened to me), the inexpensive Fender standard series bridge assembly (part # 0071014049) is a drop-in replacement.

GLWTS!

Is that someone who's set their profile picture to be the Reverb logo, and their name as "£1,620 + Local Pickup"?
🤔

Direct from Canada 🍁...

 

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The Resonant Filter Equalizer creates unique tone control by combining a high pass filter, low pass filter, and middle equalizer. Both filters have their own resonance control, allowing a bump at the cutoff frequency, accentuating the effect of the filters. The semi-parametric middle eq includes a variable frequency control.

 

The resonance of the filters ranges from -3dB all the way up to +15dB. The -3dB setting is what you would expect from a standard, non-resonant filter. Adding resonance to the filters boosts the level of the cutoff frequency.

 

The filters have a slope of -12 dB/octave. The filters are the same in performance to the other standard Broughton filters, with the added ability of increasing resonance.

-- https://www.broughtonaudio.com/product-page/resonant-filter-equalizer

So the cool thing this does is let you have a boost in your EQ, immediately followed (or preceded) by a steep cutoff. This can be also be achieved using digital effect like the HX Stomp by combining multiple filters, but to the best of my knowledge the RFE is the only analogue, single-box solution on the market.
 

I couldn't get a head-on photo without shadows or reflections, so here's a bit of the stock one so you can read the labels:

Aaaaaaaand here come the graphs...

First the high pass filter:

Yellow: minimum resonance (-3dB) 7:00 on the dial
Green: medium resonance (6dB ish) 12:00
Purple: maximum resonance (15dB) 5:00

Left trace: minimum frequency (25Hz): 11:00 on the dial
Middle trace: medium frequency (80Hz): 6:00

Right trace: maximum frequency (190Hz): 1:00

 

 

The mid filter:

Yellow: minimum resonance (-15dB) 7:00 on the dial
Purple: maximum resonance (15dB) 5:00

Left trace: minimum frequency (200Hz): 11:00 on the dial
Middle trace: medium frequency (750Hz): 6:00

Right trace: maximum frequency (2kHz): 1:00

 

 

And the low pass filter:

Yellow: minimum resonance (-3dB) 7:00 on the dial
Green: medium resonance (6dB ish) 12:00
Purple: maximum resonance (15dB) 5:00

Left trace: minimum frequency (330Hz): 11:00 on the dial
Middle trace: medium frequency (1.5kHz): 6:00

Right trace: maximum frequency (20kHz): 1:00

 

 

But what does it sound like?

 

Bypassed:

 

 

All controls at "default" (12:00 resonance, 6:00 frequency):

 

So what you're hearing is a small bump around 80Hz, with lows beneath that rolled off. And small bump around 1.5kHz, with highs above that rolled off. The mid filter's not doing anything here.

 

And after some twiddling until it sounded nice:

 
High pass at 1:00 resonance (7dB), 7:30 frequency (60Hz) (all values approximate)
Mid at 10:30 (-5dB), 5:00 (800Hz)
Low pass at 1:00 (7dB), 5:00 (2.5kHz)

 

 

Bypassed with a plectrum:

 

I forgot to write down the settings here, but it's an example of the odd, characterful sounds you can create:

 

 

 

Bypassed with flats, a foam mute, and a Poundland Jamerson impression:

 

 

The RFE can be used to mimic the way old-school speaker cabinets often had a frequency peak right before they started rolling off the lows and highs:

 

High pass at 3:00 resonance, 7:30 frequency
Mid at 1:00, 9:30
Low pass at 12:00, 5:30

Which gives an EQ curve like this:

 

It's pretty cool! As I mentioned, this kind of thing is easy enough to achieve in the digital realm, but there's something very direct and satisfying about having all the physical controls there to be fiddled with. It also works great with guitars, and can be powered with higher voltages in order to take line-level signals - there's probably fun to be had combining this with synths.

A strap doesn't necessarily have to match, but it should co-ordinate 🧐

(Folks who need mega-wide padded straps for health reasons are exempt)

 

A handy tool: https://www.oolimo.com/en/guitar-chords/analyze

The EQ frequencies on the Dirtfixer are really well-chosen - 100Hz, 300Hz, 800Hz, 2.2kHz

That does sound cool! I noticed from the video that JC uses it at minimum gain, but then I guess he's potentially giving it quite a hot input signal.

 

I chuckled when it turned out that the glow-in-the-dark fret markers were just stickers, and not Luminlay or similar

Yeah, the D'Addario ones are Swiss Army bags for Swiss Bank Account prices

Compression's an effect, and if you approach effects from a position of being "needed", it gets a bit silly. Why do I need tremolo, when I could just twiddle my volume control up and down while I'm playing? Why do I need reverb, when I could just perform all my gigs in a cathedral? Why do I need EQ, when I could just throw a blanket over the speaker? And so on