New MXR bass synth pedal released

[mattpbass]

35 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

Do you have the MXR also? An A/B of the MXR vs the v4.5 FI VIP would be very useful / helpful for many, particularly as there's only £20 in it price wise new.

I do currently, only intend to keep one, but I’ll report back when I have both to compare. For context I play actual bass synth on every gig currently, not wanting or expecting these to be as good or replace that, just a fun alternative to play around with. 

[Quatschmacher]

10 minutes ago, mattpbass said:

I do currently, only intend to keep one, but I’ll report back when I have both to compare. For context I play actual bass synth on every gig currently, not wanting or expecting these to be as good or replace that, just a fun alternative to play around with. 

The FI is an actual synth and its VA engine can be played from a keyboard. True, it doesn’t have anywhere near all its parameters accessible from the panel, but is very much a fully-featured mono synth as far as its sound-creation capabilities are concerned.

 

I pitted it against my Subsequent 37 in a blind audio test and most people could not tell which was which. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Quatschmacher

[mattpbass]

4 minutes ago, Quatschmacher said:

The FI is an actual synth and its VA engine can be played from a keyboard. True, it doesn’t have anywhere near all its parameters accessible from the panel, but is very much a fully-featured mono synth as far as its sound-creation capabilities are concerned.

 

I pitted it against my Subsequent 37 in a blind audio test and most people could not tell which was which. 

Yeah I understand that it’s a synth, I just meant I use a physical keyboard (including a Subsequent 37 amongst others), which from a playing precision side of things is still a lot less compromised compared to a bass and pedal, including this MXR pedal, and I assume the FI4 too.