Al Krow

My mate has 4 of these to put around the band, he's using a cheap keyboard case to transport all 4, but agrees it's not particularly protective. I would have thought a pole bag with as many slots as you need could work and not break the bank?

Sounds good! Nothing currently online featuring a bass, so if you're able to record a couple of clips for us that would be awesome!

The physics of bass notes being an octave lower than guitar means they are more difficult to track and I've not yet found a dedicated pitch shift pedal that works really well on bass, particularly moving more than a couple of semitones. And multifx have, in my experience, been significantly less good than dedicated pedals - certainly the ones I've used. As you say, the drop tuning seems to be excellent for guitar! If it gets comparably close on bass, colour me super interested - having singers who have different vocal registers means that this could be ideal for use with my crew! Although £195 for the XS-1 is going to be a decent chunk of change to part with.

Hi Bill, excuse my ignorance but could you elaborate on what you mean by "rising mid range" for me please?

Love that fact (and loving your music too!) When was the Friday rock show?

Wow, you guys have been rocking solidly for 45 years - respect!! No line up changes in all that time?!

It is indeed! Congrats on getting an SY 200! I know you're particularly interested in the arp feature - 18 different presets provided on the pedal and you can tweak both pitch and tempo. I've managed to dig out a YT clip of it in action: Boss SY-200 arpeggiator & pitch shift via expression pedal

Been looking into arps a bit more since finding the Boss SY 200's arp fx pretty decent and usable live (e.g. on songs such as Green Day Broken Dreams). The SY 200 has relatively limited options for tweaking the sounds of the provided preset arps, albeit it gives you 18 to choose from! This does sound like another interesting use of the Boss Slicer and I feel an SL-2 ought to make its way into the Krow household in the not too distant future!

Done! 😊 @super al - what is it with bands and drummers, eh?! I suspect you're not alone with your drummer turnover experience!

A little Sept bump!

Similar journey for me with multiple FIs! I would like to give the v4 a proper go, though, as Peter's latest upgrades taking some ideas from the MXR, in return, do sound good! Particularly if I can get hold of one of the mini version used. The FI is Mohini Dey's fav synth pedal! (Btw some of us are very grateful for your continued stocking of the BC effects for sale - still loving my GT1000 Core, it's been an excellent upgrade after several years of Zoom B1-4!)

Agreed it doesn't do traditional synth well! But some of its fx are fab and very useful live e.g. trumpet stabs and arpeggiator or others to fill out the sound, and my crew, who just have one guitar and no keys, seem to really like it on the few songs it gets used for. It never suffered from the glitchiness which plagued several other models. Its big brother the SY200 allows for presets which also really helps, live. All in all, I'm not surprised it's still the second best seller after the MXR. People vote with their wallets.

If you buy something online, I think you have a legal right to change your mind within 14 days, regardless? Equally importantly, Paypal and I suspect also eBay tend to be very supportive of the consumer, so you should be fine. "Goods not as described", is a very legitimate reason for returns / full refund. Good luck!

Just discovered Thomann's bass pedal best seller list (211 pedals listed)...due to the #01 on the list! The rest of the bass pedal synth rankings on that list also made for interesting reading: #72 SA C4 #61 EHX Bass microsynth #51 Boss SY1 ... #01 MXR Bass Synth Thomann are doing the MXR Bass Synth for £285 (inc. P&P) which is the best price I've found on line.

Maybe a Zoom B1-4? Can typically be had in good used condition for < £60. As well as being a neat multifx, it includes a very useful tuner, drum machine, looper and headphone out.

Weirdly, so did mine!

Nice board! My sight ia starting to fail me...I could have sworn that was an OC-5! 😅

Given a choice of those two, I'd go for an OC-5. In fact, I did!

@MacDaddy - Nice clip! What's your connection with this crew, are you the bass player?!

I was trying to figure out what swear word g**t*r was, and thinking what's wrong with greater gear? But then spotted you only had the same number of letters as strings!

Yes, indeedy! I'll get it set up for us towards the end of the year - typically Oct or early Nov from previous years. Just checked and it's been an annual BC thread now since 2017! Glad it's still a popular one.

The original thread...(!)

Oh, it has many fans! Me included 😅

Thanks Phil. I did consider getting a couple of the bars that you bought, but I ended up going for one of these as a floor up light due to ease of set up and being relatively inexpensive. I'd seen them in action at a mate's gig (he has four around the stage) - they work really well to light up his singers, and don't seem to give the band any issues in terms of getting blinded - which, as you say, is quite key!

Very nicely put!