MXR Bass Synth : sharing custom presets, experiences, tips, settings, ...

[kiat]

This is what I've found so far after a couple of weeks with it and two gigs with an 80s+ covers band.

 

Also maybe 🙏 BCers will share custom presets (like Ian Martin Allison 😜) that match bass sounds on our favourite and gigging songs?[1]

 

Plusses:

* fantastic giggable presets (though I'm not yet a fan of 6 or 7)

* highly configurable

* intuitive controls (saving personal customisations to a preset)

* when adjusting a preset (whether you meant to or not) that preset blinks, alerting you to a change

* the footswitch to change presents works great, I configured a trigger on my pedal switcher to use it.

 

Minuses/Drawbacks: 

* no functionality to save presets or settings off the pedal, eg to backup,  share with other players or to clone another pedal. Bluetooth or USB-C will surely need to be added to the next version

* the current position of the knobs has no relation to the just loaded preset, but may limit the available variation at that moment. I tend to set all the knobs to noon, prior to changing preset.

* a slim, high pitched whine with my pedalboard gear (I'll be troubleshooting this today)

 

 

[1] it'll be a challenge though, maybe a photo record of the knobs of the ordinary and secondary settings added to a description.

[Intoutof]

Thank you for posting this. Been scouring BC for gigging testimonials for this pedal. I'm in a situation where the guitarist and myself need to flesh things out more than we do already or we consider using backing tracks for some tunes. Not a route I fancy going down at all after having done a solid year of playing to track a very long time ago.

 

Have you had to change any picking technique or roll off any highs to accommodate the pedal so it doesn't glitch out?

 

Cheers, C   

[Kev]

Bit the bullet - ordered one, should be with me this week.

 

I still have this niggling thought that its all hype but hoping I'm wrong!