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It won’t replace the 3 Leaf or Fwonkbeta. Welcome to the club. Check out my resource page if you haven’t already.

What were they going for on Black Friday when everyone snapped them up?

What’s a good price on these? I’ve not really followed that aspect.

The MXR does synthy tone, tracks as well as the BOD. I just sold my Octabvre MkII which is also very synthy (though there is a MkIII due soon which adds an octave up).

The Enzo definitely does phat too. The FI is a synth too. Enzo only has 16 presets but every parameter is accessible from the panel. FI has 99 presets, some parameters can be altered on from the panel but full editing is only possible via computer.

Yep. MXR tracks noticably better. 3 Leaf has way more gain on tap. There’s a second dip switch inside and I’m hoping it’ll mute the lower octave and boost the other. The 3 Leaf is smoother (at the far anti-clockwise end of the tone knob in TIM mode) and deeper. The MXR is bouncier and less subby. I thought the MXR sounded better than the 3 Leaf when both have some dry mixed in as it blends better on the former; on the latter, the two signals remain distinct-sounding.

Look at the Enzo too, it does polyphony. If you’re anywhere near Sheffield then you’re welcome to try my FI.

I have. For reference, I’m using a P bass with flats.

MXR Bass Octave Deluxe and Vintage Bass Octave, hands down. (Heard similar things about EBS Octabass but never played one myself.) Octo-Nøjs didn’t track as low but even tracked all open strings (except E) on a four-string.

Finally. Only taken a couple of years! 😆 (Probably opening myself up for a witty retort.)

Depends if you want to be able to do full patch editing on the unit. Boss can, though I found it fiddly. I think the FI sounds better.

I find the tracking on my Octabvre better than the T-16 I owned. However, I borrowed a T-70 from @tonyxtiger and his has had some resistors altered by Tom at Cog and it tracked almost as well.

I don’t know that model of amp but if it’s like the aux in on my Nord piano then I guess so. Not sure if the level of the soundcard will match the volume of your band though. Part of rehearsal is getting your band levels right.

I play-tested one in an isolated booth in a shop for an hour or so and didn’t care for it. Editing on that tiny screen was a pain and I thought the raw oscillators didn’t sound particularly pleasing to my ears. Others seem to like it and it does a ton of interesting stuff but it wasn’t for me.

Tuner then synth then dirt. Wheb they say that the synth needs to go first, they’re more likely talking about engaged (as opposed to bypassed) pedals as having another active effect before it in the chain (eg distortion) would mess up the tracking. Probably doesn’t matter what order if you were only using one at a time. As I said before, you might wish to have the synth running into the distortion as post-filter distortion can sound amazing.

Interesting, I did wonder.

Add to that the excellent new MXR Vintage Bass Octave.

That’s one that I’ve yet to try.

It needs the input signal to track from, but that original signal does not need to be sent to the audio output. In other words, yes, you can simply have the octave down sounding on its own. In fact, many players do this, the classic example being the OC-2 as its octave down sound is quite synthy-sounding. Having said that, having some of the dry signal mixed can give more definition to the sound. If you dial in a subtle amount, you can get it to sound more like overtone colouration than an actual note. It sounds fat.

Yes, but I don’t see why you’d want to. You’re welcome. Have you seen my Future Impact resources page? It has some tips and all my patches. If you get one to trial, make sure you have a USB-MIDI interface or audio interface with midi ports so that you can hook it up to your computer, create some sounds in the editor and put some other patches on the pedal. There are some good stock patches on the pedal but I only liked about a third of them. This pedal’s real power lies in being able to create your own patches. When I rented one, I only used the pedal and kind of wrote it off. It was only when I bought one and hooked up the editor that I really saw what it was capable of.

You could buy it direct from Panda in Hungary if all else fails. Thomann had them in but seem to not stock them at present.

There will be latency at the low end. It’s simple physics as it takes about 12ms to read half a waveform of a low E. Even the FI, brilliant as it is, can’t overcome that. The trick I use on the FI is to pitch it down an octave and play higher up, this halving the latency.

Don’t skimp on powering it. If it requires 120mA then make sure it gets it or you’ll have all sorts of weirdness happen (the presets are digitally controlled and will likely fail to work if underpowered). See if the One Spot powers enough. If not, a dedicated power box is a great thing. I waited far too long before getting one. By “daisy chaining” do you mean the power or do you mean audio signal order? If the latter, put the synth before the distortion as post filter distortion sounds cool and you could likely use it in conjunction with the synth. The other way round probably won’t be as useful as running the drive into the synth (if both are engaged) might mess up the tracking.