EmmettC

Just sold a Jad Freer Capo to Ian. Great communication throughout and prompt payment. Top BassChatter! Enjoy the Capo.

It can be really frustrating, it's Abba of all things that's highlighting this for me. The intro to Does Your Mother Know, I'm back to just using a dirty octave sound on my Octabvre because live (and probably faster than it should be) the tracking just isn't reliable enough on the MXR or C4. That's why I like a big pedal board though, if one thing fails, or just can't be made to work for a song, I have plenty of other things I can use instead.

I play in a wedding band, part of the fun (for me) is getting close to the original sound. I use a classic octave-fuzz-chorus combo and I've had various synth pedals over the years. A pedal board is just something I always have, I use the same one for every gig, a standalone synth would be another thing to take, set up and require space. I have seen other wedding band guys do a great job with keyboard synths, and others doing a great job with just a bass into a DI. There are no right answers, but a lot of the fun (for me) is trying out different things. I'm sort of losing patience with the tracking for faster songs with the mxr, so I think I'll try the FI VIP next, @Quatschmacher any ideas when the new presets will be available?

Yes, there are a few ways to use the external footswitch, or expression pedal, but one of them is scrolling the presets. Using the footswitch on the pedal is fine for scrolling through presets as long as you don't need to change during a song. If you want to do that the easiest way is to use an expression pedal, you can save a setting for the up and down position of the pedal, so going between them is easy - it actually blends between them, which can be cool if you want that, but if not just being quick with the pedal works fine.

I have a lot of friends working there, and they know me well enough to know I won't buy one new - still I'm sure I can persuade them to get me one to try anyway.

If you hold down the footswitch the lights start flashing, then you can scroll through the presets using the footswitch. I'm not keen on pressing the little button with my foot, seems like it's asking for trouble in the long run.

Does anyone in or around Edinburgh have one of these yet, now that my Sandberg is finally sold I can start to think a bit about a new one. I definitely don't like the longer scale Dingwalls, but I think the 35"-32" (ish) 5 string sounds ideal for me, but I would like to try one first. Happy to provide coffee and cake if anyone would let me noodle on one for a few minutes.

Bass direct had a social media post showing lots of them in stock - might be worth checking there if you want it quicker.

I'm using a Truetone CS12 on my board, I swap the MXR Bass Synth and the Source Audio C4 in and out depending on my mood - I've still not settled on one - and it's been working fine. I think I'm using one of the 250mA outputs, but it might be 500mA one - it seems to be fine with the MXR. I'll double check which output I'm using later.

Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but seems better than starting again - I have a 3 Leaf You're Doom, and I have the option to trade it for a Doom 2, but it'll cost me around £150 to swap. Is it worth it, I'm really happy with the You're Doom, it is really simple to dial in between songs for live use and it never sounds bad. I do like the eq option on the Doom 2 though, seems like it will be even more versatile, but will it be as usable live? Anyone who has tried both, is it worth £150 to "upgrade", or should I just be happy with what I have?

I tried this today with my C4 and MXR - sure enough I heard it on the C4 and my tuner picked it out too. I couldn't hear it on the MXR though there may have been a really tiny drop in pitch according to the tuner. That might just be an artifact of the tuner not really being able to pick out the main note - I guess it's designed for a simple bass note, not synth tones with modulation on them. I must say though I hadn't heard that on the C4 but I'm mostly using it at gigs and rarely hold notes long enough for them to decay that much. That led me to mess around with the note hold function on the MXR - that is a very fun way to keep a note going, probably not something I'll need, but definitely something I'll play with. I had fun comparing the IMA sledgehammer setting on the MXR to my "setting" of just using my octave and chorus - I prefer that to the MXR. And my "go to" synth sound of octave/fuzz/chorus still holds up favourably to some of the MXR sounds, though clearly isn't as versatile.