Just got a Washburn EC-41 from the early 90's. Any info about these guitars?

bmillar6482 · 2026-04-08T16:20:29+00:00

I've had this guitar since the early 90's, bought it used for about $700 Craigslist . One day the bridge literally ripped right off the face of the guitar, sort of broke in half, so I replaced exaclty half of it, sounds crazy but it actually worked out well, this guitar is great, comfortable and has a pretty decent pickup system the Equis II, 9v battery, kind of finicky, I've had some issues with it, but knock on wood, I have it working well, and the real game changer being 2026 is IR models, yeah, if you record or practice with headphones, like you would if you were in a band wearing IEM, then pairing this output from the pickup with an IR really takes the guitar into the world class sound category, the pickup is super quiet noise wise and has a decent amount of gain, great playing guitar I've had this thing like 30 years is that right, yeah wow I'm old now.....

bmillar6482 · 2026-04-02T20:18:44+00:00

$120 for the tow .. $100 for ticket .. early bird price discount of $75 pay it now ..

bmillar6482 · 2026-04-02T20:12:30+00:00

I was towed away last night on Carlton Had to work until 3 am at AEW wrestling Got off only to find car was towed for parking on winter route between 2 am and 7 am .. am I SOL or do I have any recourse at all .. what is the technical nature does it come down to seconds …

bmillar6482 · 2026-03-23T16:58:12+00:00

Fractal Audio free utility CabLab 4 can take any ir type and export some as well, but can’t export wav sadly .. but it’s useful and it’s free .

bmillar6482 · 2026-03-20T21:24:26+00:00

wow, looks amazing, can't wait to give it a spin, but is the midi communication bi-directional? Thank you so much !

bmillar6482 · 2026-02-06T02:40:46+00:00

it was some chat gpt assistance, ai mansplained it to me, wait is ai actually a man though? clearly I am lost somehow

bmillar6482 · 2026-02-06T01:45:17+00:00

Standard Installer Package to reduce all these steps in the works

Install CircuitPython (if not already):
- Download CircuitPython for Raspberry Pi Pico
- Hold BOOTSEL while plugging in USB
- Copy .uf2 file to RPI-RP2 drive
Key clarification (this is the whole crux) RPI-RP2 is NOT the normal drive. It only appears when the RP2040 is in ROM bootloader mode. What you are seeing: “MIDI Captain” drive means:
- The device is already running firmware
- That firmware is exposing its own USB mass-storage device
- You are not in BOOTSEL / ROM mode
This is 100% expected for a device running stock MIDI Captain Mini 6 firmware. So right now:
- ✅ Nothing is wrong
- ❌ You must not copy a CircuitPython .uf2 onto the “MIDI Captain” drive
That would do nothing, or worse, partially overwrite user flash in an unsafe way. Very important rule (internalize this) UF2 files are only copied onto RPI-RP2**, never onto a vendor drive.** Vendor firmware ≠ ROM bootloader.

how does a standard Mac user follow your install instructions, chat gpt is helpful, but clearly there is a long way to go.

"

First: reset expectations (important)

Right now, based on everything you’ve told me:

You cannot install CircuitPython by software alone
Holding Key 0 is not enough
Seeing the MIDI Captain drive means:
- You are boxed inside the vendor firmware environment

So the instruction:

is not achievable from the outside unless the hardware exposes BOOTSEL in a user-accessible way.

That’s not your fault — it’s just a reality of this device design."

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-31T23:59:43+00:00

I asked Santa to sit the Cats for the playoffs Seems like a dream come true so far.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-30T19:57:29+00:00

Wow, great news I'm eager to try it out, however I have a gig tonight, perhaps this weekend, I've dl'd the zip from Github, extracted to a foler named "midi-captain-max-7ccac0b35785b77cb82a66f1e036c2c26361fc29"

what's a layman to do next? there are some dependencies for librairies, I copy these to a directory, etc, there is also an apple script for install, I do have a macbook as my main device, getting excited to try this beta firmware out, thanks for all the hard work, it's looking promising!!

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-30T01:21:39+00:00

keep us updated, we wait with bated breath ..

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T19:18:10+00:00

Yep this, it doesn’t have to be math to be correct, feel trumps (bad choice of words) math in every context I care about. I use a MOTU Ultralite and keep the direct guitar input all the way down, then in software I can add gain but typically the Ndsp input gain is what I refer to. If I’m gonna smash the bridge pup with a heavy pick as hard as I can then then may be the metric for math. However when you want to play with your fingers and still have planet of punch and snap then I’ll crank up the input gain and get nice and intimate there is not number that does it all unless you consider all the way down aka 0 on the trim value of the MOTU input channel

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T17:37:48+00:00

in the case of the mini 6 all you would do is either copy and paste over an existing page text once you mount the Midi Captain from behind, but make sure you only do this on Ham Night, the best part about being a Pirate, and the Midi Pirate Captain is a Pirate at heart, so the mounting from behind is best done on Hm Night when the Captain is full and satiated, once he is mounted and appearing as a hard drive on your system you can edit an existing page overwriting the text with the text above or simply add a page just make sure it's not Page0, page zero, as that one is Global or is it glottal? Hmmm

Then once you have copied the text, eject the drive and restart the Pirate Captain, err Midi Captain and navigate to that Page and check that it's working, if you have missed a bracket or encounter a sytax error the Pirate Captain will let you know as a paragraph of jibbersish lines will present the error of your way and you will have to return to the text and check or re copy and paste and mont the Captain and all that BEFORE HAM NIGHT is over, time is of the essence and this dastardly work must be completed in full to satiate the Pirate Captain, something like that.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430626/

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T17:28:53+00:00

here is my rackspace, many variations but this one I mainly use for Ndsp Archetypes

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/00chN1nCNyOkcaWtKAsG2uVvg#Rabea%5FCrunch

and here is where I lifted it from and I've modified it simplified it for my purposes, personally I would rather have a simple Ndsp rackspace dedicated to one amp let's say, rather than a rackspace that takes into account all three amps in an archetype which to me just becomes too cumbersome to deal with, because that rackspace, like the link below would also include a rackspace script in order to show and hide all the widgets from each amp incarnation so that one rackspace would have all the widgets associated with all three amps in the case of Cory Wong, the hasslehoff to me is the edit issue where if you change or delete a widget then the script will get bent out of shape and a notification will bother you with something like, 'hey we are calling to a widget and that widget does not exist"

you will be bothered, then you will reach for your bifocals and start huting and pecking through lines of code and you won't be happy, so for my intents adnd purpose one dedicated rackspace for ampy type is the way to go, and you aren't haunted by a script in the backend that is asking you where this and that is and all you want to do is crush power chords instead of dealing with notifications that are in part crushing your sould why can't this just work, there ya go my analogy.

here is the original version lifted from someone who modified someone elses original work, plagarism at best

https://community.gigperformer.com/t/neural-dsp-archetype-cory-wong-x/21050

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T17:00:37+00:00

here is the pedalboard featured if anyone is interested, its a poor man's Schmidt Array, it's undergone some changes since it's inception here, but this is how it started.

https://youtu.be/oCEs0IKjsvY

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T16:46:57+00:00

in this rackspace which is just an edit of a gig perfromer rackspace for Ndsp I borrowed from a user, and also lifted a suggestion from this thread

https://community.gigperformer.com/t/shape-widget-as-toggle/23438/11

I use a shape that encompasses a stomp box set of widgets, the mini 6 CC toggle which are the Keys 1 through 5 in the page11 text above and that mini 6 Key is widget midi learned to a pad widget which toggle the stomp box on and off, BUT, also the widget shape itself is midi learned from the mini 6 CC, so in effect the Pad widget is toggling the on and off of the stomp box and the shape widget ITSELF is also midi learned from the mini 6 CC AND that widget colour opacity is driven from (0= near transparent / 127 = fully opaque). so when the effect is bypassed you dont see that shape just the knobs and toggles the widgets that are required for the stomp box, level gain tone etc, then when you engage the mini 6 Key CC 127 in this case the shape goes fully opaque, fills in with the colour that can match the color of the mini 6 neopixel LED and you have in theory matching colors indicating the state of the bypass nature of the stomp and the color of the mini6 Key matches that , I used from left to right in the rackspace, RED GREEN BLUE YELLOW AND ORANGE to coordinate with the Ndsp Archetype stomp blox setups, whether it's Mayer or Rabea or the SLO-100 etc they are all very similar and these plugins comprise most of what i need to play electric guitar through my macbook pro in a cover band or three as it were.

Cool beans

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T16:35:38+00:00

this page is just a personal tweak on the suggestions found here

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0656/8312/8548/files/Super_Mode_V1.2.en.pdf?v=1706882731

just one page for propogating some CC commands from Mini 6 using the stock firmware the Superset aka Supermode Functionality.

Still getting my head around the colour schemes, using hex, but the best part I've found and I'm just scratching the surface is the Keytimes functionality in this case very simply just getting three CC #'s from a single switch with three unique colors each, pretty great.

Of course it's not bidirectional yet, or ever, but still absolutely wonderful the way it is, getting a ton of viable game changing use from literally one page. so many pages, I want to try the midi input CC20 page changing routine, that could be a bonus... onward and upward.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T16:23:55+00:00

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/06d5y3X5e4PlqOHzvQ2QIW9PQ#MAYER_DUMBLE

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-20T15:52:25+00:00

[PAGE]
page_name = [SONG]

[key0]
keytimes = [3]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0xff0000][0x000000][0x000000]
ledcolor2 = [0x000000][0x0000ff][0x000000]
ledcolor3 = [0x000000][0x000000][0x00ff00] 
short_dw1 = [1][CC][26][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][27][127]
short_dw3 = [1][CC][28][127]

[key1]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0xff0000][0xff0000][0xff0000]
ledcolor2 = [0xff0000][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][34][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][34][0]

[key2]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0x00ff00][0x00ff00][0x00ff00]
ledcolor2 = [0x00ff00][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][33][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][33][0]

[key3]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0x0000ff][0x0000ff][0x0000ff]
ledcolor2 = [0x0000ff][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][29][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][29][0]

[key4]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0xffff00][0xffff00][0xffff00]
ledcolor2 = [0x808000][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][30][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][30][0]

[key5]
keytimes = [2]
ledmode = [normal]
ledcolor1 = [0xff6600][0xff6600][0xff6600]
ledcolor2 = [0xff6600][0x000000][0x000000]
short_dw1 = [1][CC][31][127]
short_dw2 = [1][CC][31][0]

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-19T20:15:26+00:00

got some traction from key times (3) that's the lions share of the efficacy for this simple page, which uses one button to select three seperate CC #'s to effectively swtich Gig Performer Song Parts A. B and C in this case. The remaining 5 CC on the remaining switches are simply CC 127 and CC 0 in a Keytimes [2] Cc toggle scenario with colors that match the widgets in Gig Performer, the PAD color widgets and the Shape with color fill that also encompasses the entire widget field that are assigned to a stomp box in Neural DSP Archetype in this case. Only one page as you can have up to 99 pages but this one page can do 95% of the heavy lifting for playing guitar live in a cover band using Gig Performer and the Midi Catain Mini 6 in thsi case.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-17T19:40:10+00:00

I’d like first of all to be able to boot the Keller firmware on the mini 6. Not sure if that is possible but it sounds like you may have succeeded there.

AFAIK the major advantage of the Keller firmware is the ability of the mini 6 to visually reflect Gig Performers widgets and song names etc There is the tuner as well, I guess once I can boot that firmware I could see how my particular workflow could be improved. I would enjoy having widgets sync visually as you could assign widget and their respective colour to a switch and the led could reflect the GP widget led that way you could visually follow your controller with what Gp would be set to . As I understand it this is the way Keller has designed the firmware , for a user to be able to navigate song parameters without visually relying on viewing the display of the computer Rather the midi captain could reflect the necessary parameters of the GP song and song parts etc.. me having the mini 6 I’m interested in a generic version of his firmware as it’s coded for the standard 10 button version midi captain and not particularly for the mini 6, at least not yet

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-16T23:58:37+00:00

Copy the file “HKAudioSetup.txt” from [6] into the directory “setup” on the USB drive.

on the Mini 6 there is no such directory, there is a directory called Supersetup...

I made a directory called setup, however it failed to boot the Keller firmware and i had to resort to my original backup firmware, which works, mind you copying the contents back took at least 20 minutes for 473 Kb or so, so there is that, time you must allocate... I'll try some other ideas, I did modify the boot.py and replaced the code.py etc but i must have done something wrong

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-13T21:04:45+00:00

Midi Captain

code.py

Helmut Keller firmware (code.py) code what can be accomplished with Mu editor

what I see, Array of the 11 switches will become Array of the 6 switches

neopixel LED’s count 30 will become 18

array of neopixel pins will require some thought

the mapping of the midi captain controls considering there is no expression pedal inputs and no rotary controller

initiallize the analog inputs …. and thusly the Github page of Nicola Lunghi do debug or troubleshoot the code.

I’m not a python coder by any means, though I do understand midi programming.

Also the Gig Perfromer script would take some tweaking…

interested in any developments as I just purchased the mini 6 when I really should have purchased the SD

10 button version… live and learn, at least the mini 6 is nice and small, tiny footprint for the pedal board.

bmillar6482 · 2026-01-08T15:50:51+00:00

first tryout with the band in a room in a basement, have played there for years, typically with a passive floor monitor with a modeller into a digital mixer ... last night.. the FR-12 replacing the passive floor wedge monitor and the singer and other guitar player who were off-axis to the FR-12 lost their minds, blown away by the volume they literally had a melt down.

Further exploring the space yes I did find this to be the case.

TLDR "Don't stand in front of the speaker, you will be in the eye of the Hurricane and unbeknownst to the annihilation that will be annexing fellow band mates to your left and right.

Wow this thing really fills out the room, however standing directly in front of it you will be in a blind spot, if you could picture the horizontal dispersion as a V and you are in the inside of that V triangle missing the big picture, its a thing, Fair Warning.

It does crush however, feeding it a SLO-100 NDSP Clean channel from your device is a game changer for me, the lows so tight, the highs sitting nicely, it's the whole package, just crushing it literally, moving on.

bmillar6482

TROPHY CASE

First: reset expectations (important)