Talk me out of buying 20 year old modeling tech...

[Baba]

Consider the source - I'm an old man who doesn't feel like lifting anything heavier than my guitar.

Oh I hear you. At times, I'll bring one of my guitars over another one, if it's like 1 or 1.5 lbs lighter.

 

[ctreitzell]

The Cyber series sounded great but if I remember correctly, there were issues with the motorized knobs after a while on the Twin.

not so far on my two CTs
again, data wheel encoder is much more fragile

 

[ctreitzell]

So, last night I was playing thru my CTFE>VHT2562

then I'm feeding one speaker in my CT cabs and another 1x12 in stereo either side spread wide.
The 1x12 are Tech21 PE60 with the power amps removed and 2021 EV 12L Classics.

I've been mainly playing thru the CTSE the last year or so straight into the EV 12L cabs.

So, the CTFE had old programs in the main 4 Program slots. And I went looking to see if I could get any satisfaction with high gain tones. Clean tones are really fantastic with this setup, high gain just...no

What I noticed tho is the G12T-100 in the CT cabs just kind of disappear with distortion tones compared to the EV 12L which seem to sound the same regardless of the volume...It was 0330, so I didn't tweak for too long

 

[JCW308]

not so far on my two CTs
again, data wheel encoder is much more fragile

Great! I'm going by what we saw in our music store, coming in for repairs to an authorized Fender shop.

 

[ctreitzell]

Good for you. I'm going by what we saw in our music store, coming in for repairs to an authorized Fender shop.

You could have included that “in the field” experience with your initial comment, it’s great to have a viewpoint from the retailer side.

Nevertheless, I, personally have two Fender CyberTwins and have had zero issues with motorised knobs on my CTs. That said, neither of my amps has gigged. And further, I have started using them daily again.

Looks like this right now

 

[ctreitzell]

@timbuck3 I'm adding Program Selection to my remote control layout for CT

it's fairly easy to add, so I should have it added some time next week

 

[timbuck3]

So, @timbuck3
here are some videos to show how to get bluetooth midi connected:
Yamaha MD BT-01 (this is what I use);
This YTer suggests a third party app for iOS;
I use the Yamaha app...the Yamaha iphone app is called MDUD-BT01 and is much improved currently.
If searching the ios app store, I only found this MDUD-BT01 app in iphone apps and NOT in ipad apps;
the utility app works for both iphone and ipad.
I don't use this for computer, but the video talks about computer connections.


CME WIDI
has potentially much better expandability; all that expansion does cost more money for each addition.
It's a bit like buying expensive cables...that said I have never used it, so I have no experience
same YTer; but explaining the WIDI Jack system
and he is using Midi Designer app on his ipad, so you can see that too

Wow that’s great. I subscribed to your YouTube channel as alot of information there.
I’m in the process of deciding which MPC to go with that does drums and looping in the same box as I want something more portable and the MPC live 2+ looks really interesting. It’s kind of expensive but it’s kind of checks all the boxes for me say the MPC one. I do mostly ambient stuff so this would be for my girlfriend who’s a drummer and we can just sit on the couch and jam and sing while I play my acoustic or whatever in the drums she can play right on the MPC live too, but I’m still not sold on it because it’s supposedly doesn’t have a lot of acoustic drums in itso I kinda would like something with drums acoustic drums, hip-hop ambient drums whatever the Yamaha makes a like a hand sonic pad thing. I think it’s called FP something with a speaker on board that looks cool but no looper.

 

[Axe]

I have two sides of my lil home studio.. A digital side where my TMP, QC, Helix rack and old Axe Fx Std (that I still adore) reside. And then there's my analog side where my tube amps reside. I just bought an Ultra for effects only (to replace the depicted Eleven rack) for my tube amps