AndyP

Ah, it's been posted here as well. Good to see this has been spread far & wide!!! My condolences to the guys, but taking that amount of kit out on the road with you [i]uninsured[/i]?!?! Mental...

Rockwood LX90B, sounded dull, played awfully, traded it in for £35 off a MIJ Fender Jazz Bass... best decision ever!

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' timestamp='1324297837' post='1472629'] I have not had the time to plug it into the computer and have a play and to be honest was a little bit daunted by doing this but it sounds like it is the very best way to get the best from this pedal? [/quote] [b]Definitely![/b] Fear not, as there's nothing you can really "do wrong" (other than making some pretty disgusting noises!) and it's really difficult to accidentally overwrite your saved tones anyway - especially if you can back them up onto your computer. Just be sure to read the manual first because the process for saving presets to the pedal is a little unintuitive (whereas everything else is pretty much a case of faffing about with the various knobs and seeing what happens!) Might help to have a fellow bass player there, or a recorded sequence which you can loop & re-amp through the pedal, so you can effectively "keep playing" while you make adjustments and dial in the sounds you're after. And enjoy the happy accidents which you'll no doubt come across along the way!! [quote]I do have a Boss OC-2 but I am running it before the Synth as that is widely acknowledged as the best place to have it [/quote] I also have an OC-2, but it generally gets confused by the synth sounds if you put it after the MarkBass. Have you thought about splitting your signal? Something I've looked into but not actually got around to trying yet... run the Synth on one chain [A], and a separate dry / OC-2 / overdrive chain [B], mixed together using a Boss LS-2 or similar...? Mind-boggling possibilities if you start going down that route anyway!

I recently picked up one of these and am not regretting it! I'd been searching for a decent, highly-tweakable bass synth pedal since my GT-6B* went kaput... If you're lacking bottom-end there's a few options... ( a ) [b]increase the amount of "dry" signal[/b] Connect the pedal to your computer and, with the MarkBass software, turn the "mix" knob anti-clockwise. Roll-off your instrument's upper frequencies using its tone knob / on-board EQ ( b ) [b]use an octaver[/b] Try shoving a Bass Octaver after the synth. Note that very few octavers that will actually be able to handle this without going schizo! But if you have a Line 6 M5/M9/M13 you're laughing as it tracks like a beast... Even so, this will give really muddy results if the Coarse Pitch of any of your oscillators is set below 0, so be careful - many of the synth presets already include an oscillator pitched at -12 steps (sub-octave), so your extra octave will come out at a bowel-troubling -24 steps(!) ( c ) [b]detune the oscillators[/b] Set up two oscillators with the same Coarse Pitch (e.g. 0 or -12), and vary the Fine Pitch. Don't be afraid to go a bit wild! Greater detuning will give more DnB-style tones. In general, I'm running the synth through a shedload of other FX anyway - MF-101, overdrive, flange/phase/chorus/etc, delay/reverb... if you want it to sound like a synth, treat it like one! [size=2]* the synth on the GT-6B is still the most tweakable I've come across, once you get used to the menus and assigning parameters to the CTRL and EXP pedals... just wish it had more than one oscillator... and was still in working condition!![/size]