Al Krow

Ah very nice. Well there's only one thing for it then...a BB1025 😁 But more seriously, what have you got your eye on?

Which BB did you have?

£15 posted looks unbeatable value. Although weirdly the compact form factor may go against it. I could easily see that being knocked over with my size 12s!

That's excellent thanks Woody. Sounds like I need a TRS featured tap tempo then, but that a single switch should suffice in that we already have "hold" capability on the SY-1 itself. That Bright Onion is probably the "safe" option then. As a FYI, I think they're a local outfit and I seem to recall that @bassfan had v.good experience with them for a bespoke footswitch for his Mesa M6 amp. ...Ah just seen your subsequent post on the Mosky dual footswitch...looking that up right now!

You're a hero. It's really whether the SY-1 is going to need TRS or not and be normally "closed" polarity for tap tempo bearing in mind I'll need it to work "out of the box"!

Just been trying to get my head around Tap Tempo with the SY-1, following a little discussion on the Filter and Synth Sounds thread, which would be particularly cool for syncing the ARP speed to the drums. Seems that a Boss FS-6 does the trick, but it's a bit bigger / pricier than I was looking to fork out, given the limited use I'll be putting it to: Just wondering whether something like the Mosky Tap Switch is going to cut it? Not entirely clear from the info online whether the Mosky is TRS compatible and / or if TRS is going to be needed for the SY-1? In which case I might need to be looking at something like the Mr Black Tap-Exp pedal, which clearly is TRS. This has the added neat feature of connecting up to an expression pedal, but comes in at more than double of the Mosky once you add in P&P (doesn't seem to be available on Amazon). Bright Onion also do a little pedal which is decent value although the price creeps up if you want it painted. The additional point they make is Boss pedals normally have "closed" polarity and their pedals can be set up accordingly (there's a polarity option at no exta cost. Given that I'm pretty clueless about electronics (amongst a host of other things - lol!), hoping that one of our electronic experts e.g. @Woodinblack can jump in and provide a steer.

What did you think?

Just thinking that a TRS --> TS cable would be the way to go here? Be interested what expression pedals folks are using with their Helix kit and if they are Helix specific kit, whether these are completely fine to use with non Helix pedals (which I would assume / hope they would be)?

I've got rid of my lockdown beard. Will need to regrow to get the whole thing a bit more authentic.

I don't have a kid, unfortunately, but otherwise a good suggestion.

@krispn - seems like using the SY-1 is child's play! Clip posted on the TB SY-1 thread, in organ mode, of one of the guys with his son. Sweet!

As you'll shortly no doubt be finding out: it's pretty darned good in passive mode, but switch over to active and you'll find it has a seriously versatile EQ! 3 band and mid EQ point selector switch.

Agreed with ALL of that! 😁

Cheers Woody, ok I think honours (almost) even here ie no tap tempo in the pedal itself but accessible via an external footswitch which would, however, preclude you using an expression pedal. I've tried it with an expression pedal and found it pretty difficult to match the ARP speed to the beat, so tap tempo maybe the way to go here. Time to make sure that input on the pedal is accessible on my board, again, then! Out of interest, have you yourself or come across anyone else using it in tap tempo mode? If so, what sort of footswitch were you / they using?

Agreed on the Arp - although that could be solved if the pedal had a tap tempo, which the SY-1 doesn't as far as I'm aware @Woodinblack please jump in, if I have that wrong. As for songs, not got that far yet. I think I'll need to see the band's reaction (if and when we're ever allowed to gig again) to my mini board's effects and see if I can sneak them in. They're a conservative bunch and have been very used to bass-->amp with nothing in between and they like the bass to sit in or below the mix rather than above it. I suspect synth bass may be more relevant to originals bands e.g. stuff that @BigRedX does, but I'm just putting them out there as potentially usable sounds, particularly given how well the SY-1 tracks which is going to be key.

Here's a couple of patches from the Boss SY-1, which have been a long time in coming given that Woody and I got our SY-1s a year back! This is in firstly in Bass setting 6 mode and in Arp setting 6 mode. The second track started with a filter added to start with which I kicked off half way through so you can hear the 'clean' synth. Both potentially "usable" synth sounds? SY1 - Bass6.wav SY1 - Arp6.wav

Tip: B1-4 placement at end of your board Took me far too long to realise this, but for me the answer is end of the board! The two key minuses of putting it at the end, for me, are not being able to have the Zoom's octaves early in the signal chain, or being able to feed octave and fuzz from the Zoom into a filter pedal. The three big plusses are a) being able to access the whole pedal board when using it is as a headphone amp b) (perhaps less important) having modulation effects at the end to impact everything that's gone before and c) this was the killer for me: the drum machine, which is great for practice and laying down tracks into a looper, is (quite rightly) in parallel with the Zoom's fx channel and is not impacted by it, but will be affected by any pedals coming after it. So if you want a clean drum from your Zoom, you'll need the B1-4 at the end of your signal chain.

You're planning on selling your Berg California 4 string to fund an Ibby SR Premium, rather than tuning it to BEAD?! You foolish, foolish man! Oh wait...I did EXACTLY the same thing. Ok NOW I wanna say "I told you so". Except I didn't 😁

I get what you're saying. But we've not really defined what it means to be "creative". Every time we write, draw or put a short video clip together we are being creative and I think more folk have the ability to be creative than they realise. A bit of guidance (aka training) can give folk the tools and confidence to express their creativity. So I guess that puts me in the opposite camp to the OP.

I think you should stop pulling your punches and come off the fence on this one 😁

Nah - just really pleased that you're liking it a lot so far! Feel free to post a few pics on this thread - which seems to be a repository for Ibby SR lovers - although my bi-annual campaign to persuade Woody to change the thread title to something broader continues to meet with steely resistance 😁 Just had a little trip down memory lane on the thread and turns out that I bought my first Ibby (a 4 string as it happens - I hadn't taken up 5 strings back then!) exactly 3 years ago to the day.

And here's a clip from @Jonathan Bee (which I hope he doesn't mind me posting!) This uses the Tron effect on the Zoom B3. This really is very good - a real shame that this effect is not available in the later B3N and B1-4 models. Filter 12 - B3 Tron (JB).mp3

Been a while since we've had some posts on here - but I know that the filter and synth crew have recently seen a burst of activity! I managed to snag a used Proton V4 a couple of months back. The Proton V4 feels like it's captured the essence of the 3Leaf GR2 in a more compact package (always welcome for those of us with limited pedal board space!) and it's pretty easy to dial in a good sound. I've attached a little clip with downsweep to give you a flavour. Filter 11A - Proton4 dn.wav

Congrats on the Ibby SR Premium - great choice! Not surprised at all that you went for that instead of the Ibby Standard. My two Ibby SR 5'ers both have the 2+3 as above. Others go for 3+2 or perhaps even more commonly on the Fender style headstock 4+1. Just one other make of bass in my herd adopts the 2+3 and that's Ken Smith. So it seems to me that Ibby are in very good company! If you were basing it on weight of strings alone, then 2+3 i.e. B+E and A+D+G is more evenly balanced than the 3+2 alternative. So there is perhaps some method in the madness!

Ah that's a shame. It's gone from hero to zero in the space of a week, in classic BC fashion!! I thought the Maruszczyk or one of your other herd might be for the chop ahead of this one: