andybassdoyle

I use the freeze, mainly for dominant pedals and the like. It's really good as it is very simple but you still have a latch or momentary option.

IE Subterranea - sick (as my son would say - it would appear that's a term of sincere approval)

Dan - well done matey, this was a great thing to do. Sure there is lots of good karma on it's way to you!

I'm really enjoying learning how to use all this stuff at the moment. To my novice ears at least, things seem to work best with pitchshift/octave functions first as they seem to work best with a cleaner signal. Dirt needs to come before filter otherwise you miss all of the resonance in the filter sweep, the dirt is also less effective if the filter has taken the highs out. That puts dirt in the middle by definition. I'm putting reverb after filter as a kinda 'catch all'. Tbh though I tend to use this separately anyway so it's a zero sum game. I have found that using the effects in combination this way has highlighted how different and influential the octave sound can be. Previously using this as a stand alone voice they all seemed quite similar, impact is very different in conjunction with the other effects. Wholehearted endorse experimentation though. Whilst this works for me and seems generally accepted wisdom I believe 100% that the whole point of this stuff as a creative plaftorm is to augment your own musical voice, whatever that might be.

I used one for a while. Modelling is great and no issues at all, the synthesiser part is a little more sensitive and you may well need to focus on playing cleaner than you're used to in order to avoid unwanted triggering of sounds etc. Personally I loved the sounds but I couldn't get on with needed to play in a different manner. Another issue I found is that the effects section - which is pretty good - only works on the modelled sound i.e. you can't use it on your natural bass signal. You will also need to use two separate amp channels to use natural and 'GR55' sound or spend some time in the config of each patch. This said, the sounds are great and the set up of the GK pickup is not to difficult to achieve. You do need to spend a bit of time to get this right though. It's well worth a try but definitely an acquired taste as far as live performance is concerned. Not sure how the new SY300 will pan out - this does not require the hex pickup.....

Thanks matey - it might sound like a silly question but should a standard TRS cable (i.e. passive expression cable) do the job? I've tried swapping some stuff around but get a fair bit of noise and not much else. Excuse my ignorance but any suggestions gratefully received!

Yes please