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I had the pleasure of meeting @opwillbergtoday when he came to buy a bass from me. Otto is a lovely guy and a great bass player; it was lovely to chat about music and Germany. All details and arrangements were made and happened as planned, which involved Otto travelling up from London. He was very flexible in accommodating a change of timing on my part. A flawlessly smooth transaction and I’d happily transact again.

@HoorayForAnonyms was this your work? If so, thank you.

Seem to be.

Ming bought my spare FI4 at the weekend. All details and payment were sorted promptly and communication was swift, friendly and informative. I’d have no hesitations in trading again. Many thanks. Hope you like the upgrade.

I’m trademarking “five finger shuffle” as my title.

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.

Does your switch have two TS cables or one TRS? One of the dual switches might still work if it is TRS.

I think when I finally get my hands on one, I’ll have to dial up the same presets on the FI4 and post a comparison.

I was rather bemused when my son told me there was a pedal-sized parcel for me today. I knew I hadn’t ordered anything as I’ve been having to tighten my purse strings due to impending major change of circumstances. I was therefore completely taken by surprise to find this incredibly lovely gesture and gift when I opened the box: Folks, this was totally unexpected and unnecessary, nevertheless I want to express my profound gratitude to the anonymous benefactors who were kind enough to do this. Thank you! My faith in humanity has been given a much needed boost after the kicking it’s been getting lately. ❤️

I’ve been through this many times in other posts. The Boss is not generating a pitched oscillator so is not tracking pitch at all, rather it’s simply overlaying/processing the incoming audio directly to make it sound like a synth, that’s why it feels so fast and will hold as long as audio is present.

I love the community-spiritedness of the people on here!

I’m running both my BassRigs off a single output from a Zuma with negligible noise.

Here’s a question I’d be keen to hear the answer to: how does the MXR deal with tuning when the string energy decays? Does the pitch drop as the note rings out when held for a long time? This is something that makes a huge difference. In the C4, you can hear the pitch drop off noticeably. The Future Impact handles this far better. The earlier version would cut off the note dead as soon as the unit detected pitch drop. The v4 is even better as there’s now a rolling buffer which stores the pitch value, so when the unit detects a small pitch drop in the string it takes the previous correct value from the buffer and holds that pitch for as long as the string continues to ring out. It’s an awesome feature, and allows the full release time of the ADSR to be used with rock-solid pitch throughout.

Stereo chorus and/or delay can sound wonderful on synth bass. Obviously more widely used on lead and chordal stuff though. And stacked stereo bass with subtly different settings on each side can be really great. Moog Voyager does this sort of thing, having two low pass filters in stereo output.

I can see why folks might be irked by having to choose between stereo and expression. Shame they couldn’t have made the normal audio output into a TRS socket for the stereo option. Compromises always have to be made somewhere; like in the C4, you can either have stereo output or an external loop function but not both.

There are some things out there that will convert MIDI to passive expression signals: https://oldbloodnoise.com/pedals/p/mtet-midi-to-expression-translator

Slightly easier when the options are more restricted, but very good point.

You could probably even use a latching TRS switch in place of the expression pedal to immediately jump between two values, or use the expression pedal trimmer to get the full output range over a shorter travel to effectively mimic a switch.

Don’t forget that with an expression pedal you can effectively have two different presets built into one at extreme ends of the pedal travel, but also all the points in between.