Quatschmacher

Well, here’s the exciting news I can finally talk about: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/future-impact-now-available-was-deep-impact-reissue-interested.1115025/page-389#post-28252259 I’ll copy the text into a post. Just wondering whether I should start a new dedicated thread.

Do you mean the colour of the knobs better matches the colour of the lettering? If so, I agree, though those knobs are really tall. The height of the newest ones are best, shame I couldn’t find these ones in purple.

Third knobs option:

Actually, I can share this one:

I use flatwounds and mine quacks plenty.

That looks like a landing craft from a 70s sci-fi film!

Ah so that’s where that went! You beat me to this. I needed to sell some stuff first. How are you finding it? Sadly I can’t post my latest pedal acquisition as I’m beta testing it and it’s not released yet.

Who says FI doesn’t sound like a “proper synth”? Audio-819.mp3

Choices… (got one more set on order):

Jon bought a Mastotron from me, all done very smoothly, quickly and with friendly communication. Many thanks.

It’s even more handsome in person. Thanks, @GisserD!

One of the white/purple ones is already on its way to me.

It replaces nothing. It’s its own thing.

So much goodness in that picture. There’s about 6-7 of those I’d love.

Source Audio Ultrawave could probably do this using the multiband settings and routing via the two outputs.

The lack of mid control didn’t bother me. The Fliptop also only has bass and treble, as does my Sadowsky pre. For reference I play a P with Labella flats. My other has Chromes on but I haven’t used that through it. As to how it made the sound better, fattened it up nicely. Puts a bit more bottom into the low-mid-forward P sound. Transparent vs sweeten? Not sure if I can tell the difference. It obviously changes the sound but my bass still sounds like my bass. This was coming directly off the preamp into headphones. Can’t spill the beans about the new thing, I’m afraid, NDA and all that. It is as adventurous as stuff like C4 and Ultrawave. It does some very neat things and nicely addresses some things people have been asking for. I think it’ll go down well. I’ve already made some nice presets today and have thought of a few feature ideas that I’ve fed back.

The SY-1 isn’t tracking pitch. The boss “synth” pedals just process and overlay the incoming audio to make it sound a bit like a synth, which is why there are no triggering issues. Contrast with stuff like C4 and Future Impact which do track the incoming pitch and output a digitally-generated oscillator waveform.

You beat me to that reply!

Well I got this yesterday evening and it’s really very nice indeed. Not sure it’s going to replace my Fliptop as it’s a bit cleaner sounding than that. Definitely makes my bass sound way better and the grit has a very nice quality to it. Oh, and the new thing. 🤯 It’s brilliant!