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I’m playing my final gig with blues band The Alligators at this festival this Saturday 12th July.

Do You Remember - Phil Collins

Fwiw I don't think the Boss SY-1 or SY-200 comes close to the FI in terms of the quality of its synth tones, but it delivers something decent enough for live use on a few songs that need it in our sets. I'd therefore be pleasantly surprised if the SY-300 was able to come anywhere near close to what the MXR / FI are producing tonally. What the SY-200 does provide, however, is excellent "tracking" (in the commonly used sense understood by most non-engineers) and lack of glitchiness which doesn't seem possible without changing playing technique with the FI. So, despite its limitations, it's the one that I've kept on my board. If the MXR provides both great synth tones, accessibility, and tight tracking, as they seem to indicate they've done, then they've pretty much hit the jackpot for many bass players looking to use a bass synth for live band use.

Rabbit hole now. So if I was doing this with single pedals you need a blend, a fuzz maybe two, a filter, a fuzzy filter like the EHX Bassballs or a synth pedal and I feel like a phaser and I’d run all of that into a fairly gritty Sansamp. There is fuzz all over stuff, I’ve never really known where he uses the G5 but then I’ve never been able to get the swirly squelchy sound of Twisted. Which is always where I hear most of the fx. If I had to do it with a small board I’d grab an EHX Bass Big Muff - the new MXR Bass Synth (with a switch for the presets) or a Digitech bass synth wah (depending on budget) - MXR Phase 95 - Sansamp. Big board (no budget) I’d have a split going into a boss or source audio programmable eq pedal into a sansamp or the qstrip for clean and a ehx pog - digitech drop - jhs crimson or a wren and cuff box of war - jhs bender - digitech bass synth wah - digitech synth wah - mxr bass synth - analogman mini chorus - into a gritty sansamp then blend them back together and run that into a Neve DI or your choice of clean di box. I’d probably use the gigrig wetter box and have the expression pedal for controlling the blend. I’d also likely shove my Subdecay Noise Theory and a Mojohand 442 or Dod 440 in there. Grab a Stingray, that would do me and be hella fun to play. If I was doing it with a multi, I could cop the tones with a Zoom MS60b+ (it has a g5 emulation in it) but wouldn’t give me the switching I’d need live so I’d be on the HX Stomp or Anagram. I could probably do most of it with the MXR Bass Synth from what I’ve seen. I’m enjoying this thread too much.

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No better, all hail the MXR 😂😂😂

It must be possible to make an ABM I. A smaller form factor. 300mm wide would suit me.

Long live the MXR 😅

Bassist returns home from a summer tour of Seaside gigs. "Has anyone seen my old bass, you know, the red one with all the knobs? it was under the bed" "You. Did. What?!?"

Ryan just bought my Pedal Train(s) and, just like everyone else, i found him super easy to deal with from start to finish. Thanks Ryan!

Well, that beats most of my bad gigs!

Possibly. I only had a play around with that boss unit in a shop one afternoon several years ago so am not overly familiar with it.

It’s more like this now: Also, you can just make adjustments via the panel and overwrite the presets using just the pedal without ever having to touch the editor.

It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion

Would they be possible on the Boss SY-300?

I think if you see this screen and get excited by the possibilities then the FI4 is for you if that fills you with fear and dread - the Mxr is for you! (if that looks a bit dumbed down and simple - ignore us all and get back to your Zoia …)

Yes