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   

[kiat]

On 30/12/2025 at 08:59, Intoutof said:

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   

 

Hey C, playing wise so far I've had to pay attention to playing cleaner, with no unintentional touching of other strings. Also fast descending runs can lose tracking after a notes, so I've been careful and made small adjustments to the bassline to avoid that. 

 

I've l not a great deal of experience with different pedals having relied more on the natural tonal range of my basses, preamp in one, the backline EQ, etc. 

However I've got into multipedals (tried out and stuck with a B3, now a GP-5) for simplicity and chaining them together didn't sound great, so I'll be gigging next with the Bass Synth on its own signal path, then recombine with the other tone (I'll be using two AB switches to achieve this).