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I have no idea tbh. But some conjectures. a) Guitarists like jack cables, b) lots of guitars use 9v batteries for other electronics so it's not a big deal to many people (all my violins have active pickups) and c) maybe the 48v doesn't carry enough current to power a sustainer - microphones don'e use a lot, but sustainers do use a lot of battery. Just ideas :)

Thanks! I'm not very familiar with the SY-200, but looking at the specs it seems VERY cut-down from the SY-300. For instance it only has one 'oscillator' and (i'm not sure about this) no sequencer. So I think you might struggle to get anything as handy as I managed in this video. That doesn't mean it's impossible (AFAIK nobody else thought of doing this with a SY-300 before!) but from reading the specs it looks, at best, very hard.

They are lovely to play and sound great. My one issue with them is that the pre-amps can be a little noisy. This is fixed in the Dragons though I believe :)

I'm in the UK, so I got that one from hotroxuk.com. They do seem hard to get hold of though. My second one (on a PRS SE) i found on ebay.

Because the ed o brien strat has a Fernandez in it and plays chords great.

I rarely use the harmonic mode :)

Do you know why that occurred? This video is the only video I’ve seen of a Fernandes responding in that way. I’m in the market to buy one which is why I’m wondering…

It depends which "Fernandes" pickupo you mean. The bridge pickup is a humbucker and the neck pickup is a single coil. When the sustainer is on, then the bridge (humbucker) pickup is automatically selected (regardless of the blade switch position). When the sustainer is off the the pickup selected by the blade switch is active. I hope this clears things up.

The Cantini comes with Dogal Strings which are suprisingly decent - WAY better than the steel strings that come on cheap instruments. Though they are not as easy to get hold of as 'normal' violin strings.

It's not a sampler so you don't 'add sounds' as such. You can (and should!) make your own sounds using the very versatile oscillators and modifiers. It's extremely versatile.

Ok thanks.

That's a a really good point and one that I haven't checked. I am using a Fishman battery pack on my Fernandes sustainer guitars and that seems pretty quiet - but, of course, it's designed for guitar use!

​@@ChrissieCaulfield I'm planning on a guitar build using the Fishman battery pack and a Fernandes Sustainer Kit. I was a little concerned that the battery voltage was insufficient because people have measured only about 4.5V on these despite Fishman claiming it was "like a 9V battery" which seems to be very carefully worded. So you didn't have any issues with it? How long does the battery last?

I think the Sustainiac is a marginally better neck pickup (if you can stomach the extra noise from it), but there isn't much in it, and it's hard to draw firm conclusions with the guitars being so different in sound anyway. I now also have a Fernandes in a PRS/SE Custom 24 (with another pickup in the 'spare' slot as promised!) and can confirm that the neck is the least-good pickup of the three - especially compared with the PRS bridge, which I really like. I don't think I would describe either as "dull and lifeless" tbh, but they are not the best. I suppose it's a compromise with it having to do sustaining duties too. I find it usable - though I don't use it a lot. If I want a single-coil neck for recording I tend to reach for an unmodified Strat :)

I can't remember off-hand, sorry. I suspect it's just the defaults though.

Yes. It just keeps going until you double tap on the foot switch.

Thanks. The SY-1000 can layer 3 sounds (over the instrument signal), but they are all synth sounds - there are no samples in there. That's the main difference between that and the GR-55 (apart from the better connectivity on the back, like extra pedals and a send/return loop). It's a question of what you really want to do with it - I'm not that bothered about making a guitar or violin sound like another instrument, so the synth sounds are more interesting to me. It's a question of what you want really. Also the GR-55 feels quite old-fashioned in it's interface :)

@@ChrissieCaulfield Thanks Chrissie. I’ll have to see if I can try one to compare. 👍🏻

It's a "bass 6".Stuart will be doing an explainer video on his channel. I'll link to it when it's up.

That was exactly my point

@@ChrissieCaulfield ah ok i did not understand everything then. Sorry. With the zeta it is the same case, you need the midi synthesis device

I haven't had this problem. And I have sustainers on several guitars now (that strat, a PRS SE, and a Fernandes Dragonfly)

There has to be a trimpot on the circuit board that could probably fix this. I have seen some fernandez circuit boards with 2 and /or 4 trimpots.

The top one is a normal volume, the middle one is a tone for ALL pickups, and the bottom one controls the sustainer intensity.

To be honest I can't really remember, this is a very old video! Looking at the leads I think the EQ is at the start and compression at the end. That might sound odd, but I like compressing delays :)

@@ChrissieCaulfield interesting! thanks!

Hi! Yes, all the tracks were recorded separately (in one case, on a different day!) into their own tracks on the DAW. I uses a Focusrite 2i2 into REAPER. For this track I recorded the video at the same time, but I have done one where I'm miming to tracks I recorded previously ua-cam.com/video/2cWL5VU4EPA/v-deo.html

@@ChrissieCaulfield are you satisfied with the scarlet 2i2? Have you ever felt like needing more inputs for let's say, a live stream where you want to play multiple instruments separately but on the same take? So when you record you always unplug and plug another instrument?

@@ChrissieCaulfield one more thing. I was wondering. What rosin are you using for the chrome steel dogal strings? If you have any recommendations 🙂

Thanks!. I'm using the 8->13 pin GK cable with the Cantini - it's needed to get the extra sounds from the unit. It's not a MIDI cable though - as I explain here ua-cam.com/video/ZIXWjsC2pGc/v-deo.html it can only be connected to a GR-55 or SY-1000. If you want MIDI you need to one of use those units to convert the violin/guitar signal. And with a violin it does not work very well! So, with a Cantini violin you definitely need a GR-55 or SY-1000 and you're largely restricted to what those devices will do.

@@ChrissieCaulfield yep I get it. Ammm. Thanks! I'm actually more of a traditional pedals kind of type. But I was curious about that midi thing. One more thing, is there any latency when you go through the boss or Roland with that cable he provides?

@@arye_amsalem There's mostly no latency in the unit, or if there is it's undetectable unless you start stacking very complex patches together with several instruments and many effects on them (which I have done!). Even then it's low enough not to be a major issue IMHO. You can hear it if you listen carefully, but it doesn't impact playing

@@ChrissieCaulfield thanks a lot! So the boss or Roland? Have you tried them both?

Hi! There are no sampled instruments in the SY-300, it's just a synthesis device. With a bit of work it might be possible to get something that sounds vaguely like a trumpet, but it does also depend on what sounds you're putting into to (as it uses resynthesis rather than pitch detection). If you really want other instrument sounds then you might be better looking at a pitch-to-MIDI device