A while back I was considering the Hydrasynth, but I ended up trading in a trunkload of gear for a Summit and a Digitone Keys. I'll probably always be curious about the Hyrda though. Is the Digitone a good groovebox? I've been looking at the Syntakt instead but I haven't actually tried any Elektron...

Hurb wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:55 pm I really like the black 4 pickup one.

When are they out?

Not entirely sure, people seem to have review models already so.... soooooon?

Ah, okay, they're "Astrosonics" which are baaaaasically Burns Tri-Sonics, I think. But since he had/has(?) a relationship with Burns (he designed and made their pickups, at least before Andertons bought them) he can't just hock regular-looking Tri-Sonics, I suppose because that would be na...

ALSO can I just say that, as much as I'm loving the current "mash up" culture that is a big deal right now, taking elements of very different models and slapping them all together, I'm not digging the fact that that trend has occurred in the midst of another trend, the one where companies ...

F8y8zjpWUAEyodQ.jpg As far as I can see, most of these will be around the £600 mark which is potentially too rich for some when there are more "famous" options on the market, but what makes these a bit different is the electronics. Of particular interest to me is the four pickup Jaguar (A...

Okay, so this is interesting. Apparently it was announced a while back but I don't think I covered it. It's fairly obviously Behringer looking to compete directly with the Arturia Microfreak, which I'd say has quickly taken the all-purpose wacky but infinitely useful synth crown from the Microkorg. ...

Bacchus wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:52 am

Nick wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 3:54 amI usually can't tell if I was doing anything productive and original or just dicking around.

30 years of studying music, 20 of them seriously, and this is still the dilemma I constantly face.

The truth hurts and I am in immense pain right now.

NickS wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 9:44 pm £86 at Thomann in stock 8 - 10 weeks.

That's brilliant, then. It's basically a slightly more advanced Volca for almost as little as half the price. If they're all this price, I can see myself ending up drowning in them....

Bringing it all right back to the very first synth posted in this thread..... The Pro VS is now firing out of the Behringer factory, ready to order, with demo vids to accompany it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRs0U81XSo&ab_channel=Behringer I honestly wasn't too interested in a vector synth ...

My candy apple red Burns Batwing came with a mint pickguard. Always thought that was kind of an odd choice, personally, and I don't really like mint green at all (gloss white, gloss black or NOTHING) but I love that guitar so...

Aw shit. I've been there, plops. It's gutting for something to go wrong after so much work beforehand. Takes me a while to get over a catastrophic failure like that but after some time and distance you can sometimes come back to it either with a strong idea of how to fix it, or with the motivation t...

Bad Monkey for £75 at Andertons http://www.andertons.co.uk/second-hand/second-hand-digitech-bad-monkey-overdrive-no-accs-123 That's fucking stupid. They're taking the piss. They know full well it isn't worth that. Most recently, JoshgayhaterScott did the Danelectro Wasabi pedal series, I had nearly...

I fucking hope so. I've always been deeply disappointed by other guitarists, I'd say around 99% of them are massively stupid bastards. Sure, we've all laughed at TDPRI idiots spending £500 on some boutique pedal that is basically just a modified Fuzz Face circuit or something. They're idiots. If the...

Yeah, I'm referring more to that US trade embargo period where all British guitar companies really needed to do was cover a Stratocaster-shaped gap and yet, some enterprising designers thought "I know, I'll make the pickups oversized and make the covers out of metal, cut the pickguard up into b...

So, Burns is still out for the count since its purchase by Andertons guitars. They've said that it is coming back SOON (SOOOOOOOOON!) but there appears to be no real word on that at this point. And as if by magic... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hOhMwSYB74 Although looks like these are something ...

I do remember the guy being a total dickwad but those ARE decent looking guitars.

Oh, and they're being distributed by JHS.

No, not the pedal maker. The real JHS: John Hornby Skewes.

Fuck yeah, have loved those Rapier 22s forever. I love that they haven't wussed-out and used the generic offset vibrato on it. Pretty flat radius too, sick. On sale for £299 at Glandertons Yeah, Alan knows his shit when it comes to this... shit. If you notice, the trem on the 33 and 22 is different...

I'm not sure what came first, the Hofner Galaxie or the Watkins Rapier. I'm going to do a quick search and then tell you: Okay so the Watkins Rapier was made in the late 50s, I think, and the Hofner Galaxie was around the early 60s. BUT the Galaxie name was the name given to the guitar in English-sp...

So, Burns is still out for the count since its purchase by Andertons guitars. They've said that it is coming back SOON (SOOOOOOOOON!) but there appears to be no real word on that at this point. So, in the meantime.... A little bit of background; the designer of these guitars is Alan Entwistle, who w...