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    That’s a shame. What about if you had velcro on top of the brick and carried the hub loose in a pocket and attached it during set-up pre-gig? Of course it’s appropriate for live use. You can switch presets using it. Also, if you’re ever only likely to use no more than two presets per song but want access to more sounds during the course of a gig, you can set the hub up such that it writes the presets to the hardware preset buttons when you select them. You could design your preset pairs (at home) and choose which ones you want to be on the left and which on the right. Then before each track you simply send the two PC messages and voila, your new presets are available on the hardware stomp switches. You should also get an expression pedal to make use of the hub’s ability to alter a parameter within a preset (ie to bring in an LFO or add resonance etc).
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    Open string tracking can be iffy anyway as there are more harmonics present which can confuse the tracking. Octavers are sensitive to dead spots on the neck. These are things you may not notice when playing with effects. The best way to hear if that’s the issue is to play into a fuzz/distortion pedal and you’ll soon hear if the fuzz dies out quicker on certain notes. Are you soloing the neck pickup? That always yields best results for me. Also, active basses can cause glitching. My octavers all worked noticeably better with passive basses. (My Sterling and Octo Nøjs just wouldn’t work together at all!) The “girth” dial on the MXR is really fat and will probably overpower your headphone drivers. It even made my Beyerdynamic cans rattle (though they’re only the 32 Ohm ones). Given that this is my old pedal, I know the issue will be with the bass/strings and not the pedal. This pedal even overcame a couple of dead spots on one of my basses that my other octavers can’t cope with.
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    You need to make space for your Hub and something that can send MIDI PC messages. Couldn’t the hub sit on top of the power brick?
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    I’ll likely regret it but it’ll make my head feel less cluttered. Plus, I’ve almost saved enough for a Pro 2 with my recent sales.
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    @lee650
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    I’m trying to get down to sensible numbers of pedals so I’m letting this beauty go. This is a fantastic octave pedal on one side (with a filter to go from sub-only to buzzy). The other side has a parallel octave down fuzz (with tone control) and a gated dynamic octave fuzz (with gain and tone controls). It’s capable of some incredibly synthy sounds just on its own. Pair it with a low pass filter and it gets even better. Tracking is excellent on the octave side; it even tracks all open strings except low E. Tracks down to low A no problem; notes below that might need to be played a bit closer to the neck for optimum response (depending on your bass) whereupon you can get to F, not that you’d ever need to play that low. This was bought new under a year ago and so is still under warranty. Comes with all original packaging and is in mint (wholly unmarked) condition. Anyone chasing synth sounds really ought to check this out. There aren’t many of these around. There is one other here on BC which has been passed around a bit but I’ve not come across another out in the wild. Price includes next-day recorded UK postage.
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    @Nick Reed
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    Bargain!
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    This is torture. I wanted one of these for ages. I have the cash easily but am trying to save for something more expensive.
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    @lee650 - cheap BOD
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    Andy bought my MXR BOD. Clear, friendly communication and prompt payment. Many thanks.
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    Sold.
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    Sold pending payment.
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    @BenR24, @Bassdude BE
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    I’ve finally decided to let this go as I really don’t need three octavers. I’ve hung on to this one because it is hands down the best tracking octaver I’ve played. This will not let you down; it tracks all the open strings on my bass (bar the E) and all the way to bottom F#. It also tracks notes that my other two don’t. I just slightly prefer the sound of my other two for what I’m using them for (mimicking synth sounds in combination with fuzz and filter). When played with just octave and clean signal, this one is the fattest of the three I own. This is in mint condition (not a mark on it) and comes with the original box and all paraphernalia. Price includes recorded, next-day UK postage. I can post same day if payment is received by 8.30am.
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    I watched the official demo video 1 year ago which was close to release time. Seen them in Berlin in the store I go to there too.
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    Also, this can be run as octave only if desired.
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    This has been out for ages.
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    Dynamic octave fuzz is worth having as well as the Mastotron. ON and Mastotron in parallel sounds huge.
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    Anyone currently checking out synth sounds would do well to give this a go. Run this into a filter (Manta works really well) and you’re pretty much there. Also, Ben is great to deal with. Someone needs to get on this bargain.
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    @lee650, @BenR24
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    Yeah, the Moog is super fat but no downsweep and limited envelope shape options (unless using CV) though I have a build idea which, if it works, will solve this, whereupon I’ll rebuy the Moog. By the way, I like the colouration that the Moog gives in bypass mode. For formants, check out the Future Impact for sale from the same seller. Also, Glou Glou’s new Pralines will do formants as it’s 4 parallel BP filters with individual frequency control. Glad you’re enjoying the Manta. Please share some patches on the dedicated thread when you are able to.
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    This interesting new development from Industrial Radio just hit my Facebook feed. @andybassdoyle
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    @andybassdoyle
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    I haven’t had much chance to play it as family visitors arrived not long after I downloaded it. I probably won’t get chance to play it until next week, though a cursory play sounded great. Need to hook it up to a proper keyboard to play properly. I’d been waiting months for this to go back on sale as £30 was a bit steep. The only thing I’m finding awkward on the iPhone is setting the pitch sliders back to the centre - on the Moog app one can double click to do this, not so here. It’s probably much better on an iPad. Polyphony and a built-in sequencer! It’s likely that one could use the sequencer to drive the Moog app too.
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