Now there's this:

http://www.behringer.com/product.html? ... e=0709-AKU

Oh wow, nice one Rob.

I've really liked the look of both this and the previous Texture Lab box.

The Liven series seems to be massively inspired by the Volca's, but with hugely expanded capabilities, particularly on the polyphony and sequencer side of things.

They remind me a bit of that mid-90s ...

Oh shit you're right. What the fuck. Why have they done that??

The Squier Affinity Starcasters were released with the Squier Starcaster range a few years back, they've been around for ages.

This place does actual synth filters in pedals:

http://www.ftelettronica.com/

But none of them are expression pedals, and, weirdly, none have expression pedal inputs, either, I think?

They do a resonant filter pedal that does have control voltage input minijacks, but how you'd get those to work ...

http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Vintage-REVO-Surfmaster-Quad-Thinline-Offset-Boulevard-Black/6FNY?origin=product-ads&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwg8qzBhAoEiwAWagLrJQKvOMol1KzoFQGiTX8RXxc49GXykiwsUeCKlf-6v9wwdfMIfkdUhoC1wIQAvD_BwE

Looks like they're starting to pop up.

Glad to see the black ...

It'll buff out.

Gavin wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:09 pm pretty cool looking. I'd def be whacking my hand off that switch though. I'd just get rid of it.

Gavin, the guitar isn't as small in real life.

I love them, but they're a bit spendy.

Played a Polara recently actually, a friend bought one to replace a Gibson SG that got broken and I really liked it for the money paid.

Guild "came back" after Fender sold them off again a few years back, and they've done reissues of their most popular models pretty consistently since, I think the ...

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 ...

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 naughty (he ...

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 are ...

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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 (Alan ...

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....