Quatschmacher
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Isn’t this the one that’s currently on eBay too? https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F183164127424 -
Are you running it off the front pickup only? If not, try that. Below low A will sound muddy. I’d probably only play down there with the BOD if playing mostly clean signal with a small amount of sub rolled in to beef it up. Playing the soloed sub voice down that low isn’t terribly musical-sounding.
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What bass are you using? My BOD tracks to low F on P and J basses and am using rounds and flats.
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Well, given its size, I’m sure that won’t pose a problem.
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@Pilchardo, did you get one of these? -
Again, Zach is the man for illuminating reviews:
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This is an incredibly versatile pedal which has 24 different filter models (low pass 2/4 pole, band pass, multi-peak, phasers etc). These can be controlled by your bass’s envelope signal, by an LFO or by a mixture of the two. There are also 6 different drives (including gated fuzz and octave fuzz) which can be used in conjunction with your choice of filter. You can store 2 presets on the pedal but if you hook it up to the Neuro Hub you can save 128 “scenes” across 5 different pedals! There is quick access to all the important parameters (cutoff frequency, resonance, speed, filter effect depth, etc). This is fantastic way into getting synth sounds from your bass. Use it with an octaver and there’s all manner of goodness to be had. It also does “regular” wah and phasing, etc. It is in excellent condition and comes boxed with the UK power supply. 2nd Class recorded (UK) delivery is included in the price. I can post the same day if sale is confirmed by 8.30am of that day as I can take it with me to work and post from there.
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ON HOLD - MXR Bass Octave Deluxe (£75 including UK shipping)
Quatschmacher replied to three's topic in Effects For Sale
Great price on a great pedal. -
Finally picked up the EHX Bass Micro Synth. This thing is great. It’s really quick to dial in a synth bass sound. There’s a decent amount of resonance available but doesn’t get those popping pre-self-resonance sounds. What it excels at is down sweeps. Unlike envelope-controlled filters, which when set to down sweep sweep down and back up as the volume of your input signal dies out, this sweeps down and stays down. This is because it has a user-set sweep which is the same each time, it is simply triggered at the input signal threshold set by the user. This yields very authentic sounds and one doesn’t have to cut notes short to avoid the filter sweeping up again. Another cool trick is to have the dry signal turned up and the other voices off and run one’s preferred choice of fuzz/octaver into the BMS so one gets the use of its filter and envelope generator without being tied to its own flavour. It means one can run a gated fuzz into it which sounds even better. As a bonus, the octave down voice tracks and sustains all the way to low F no problem.
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A filter pedal with an FX loop would solve this as you could patch the FX SEND output into the compressor, the octave and into the FX return. I’ve never used a compressor and don’t have any real tracking issues.
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With my (sadly departed) Sterling the ON didn’t respond very well at all - I had tracking problems galore. It works so much better on a P bass. Run this before the filter, better on a low pass one (the MXR is band pass). Even better, a filter with an FX loop so that your input dynamics are fully preserved. The Wonderlove does this really well. (The EHX Q-Tron+ has a loop too as does the WMD Protostar but the Wonderlove is the only one of these that allows you to use the contents of the loop without having to have the filter switched on.) Running it into the filter is functioning like subtractive synthesis in that the filter will remove the higher frequencies the more you turn the cutoff down.
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Told you so. Get it running through an envelope-controlled filter for some real fun and kill the dry signal completely for synthy goodness. Sounds great on really low-gain settings. Tracking is better on a neck pickup. The best I got was on a Jazz bass with a rotosound steels on it. I prefer the sound using flats though as it takes the edge off the really high sizzle.
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CAB recommendations to go with MarkBass Little Mark Tube
Quatschmacher replied to BenGoldingBass's topic in Amps and Cabs
I heard one with a Barefaced 1x15 with a passive jazz on a gig and it sounded fantastic; fat and well-articulated. -
The Protostar is a bust. The LFO has no gate and so is audible in the background. Also with the resonance over halfway and the cutoff high there’s an intrusive amount of hiss. Furthermore, the knobs are small but really sensitive so it’s really tricky to dial in and would be difficult to replicate similar settings between sessions. That being said, it does sound pretty damn cool. There’s a lot of scope for sound shaping. Ultimately though it’s a bit disappointing and it’s going back tomorrow and I’ll be £329 better off!
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Actually, a third footswitch which toggles the dry on and off would be a possible alternative. Oh, and top-mounted sockets would be welcome.
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It’s a great pedal. In fact I’ve just spent the last two hours playing mine. I’m sure you’ll love it. The gated fuzz in the Nøjs side is brilliant. (The only thing I’d like to see improved is the addition of separate dry knobs for each side of the pedal; there’s just one and it mixes the dry into both sides of the pedal. It means you can’t switch between a sound with dry and a sound without dry using the foot switches.) The Octabvre Mini is also great but a different kind of vibe (more mids) and is well worth getting too.
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These are like buses this week.
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SOLD - MXR M85 Bass Distortion - £85 posted
Quatschmacher replied to Quatschmacher's topic in Effects For Sale
Zach’s reviews are always worth checking out: -
Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!
Quatschmacher replied to dudewheresmybass's topic in Effects
I’m not sure there is. I think it mainly stems from the “1” in the title; it implies a future version. -
True. Though you could set the above up on the same toggle switch position with your preset A on the green light and your preset B on the red light so that holding down the pedal’s footswitch would switch between them. And if you’d set them up in parallel (on separate output jacks) you could use the LS-2 to flick between them. Furthermore, if you set up the LS-2 in A+B mix mode and feed one output of the Aftershock to the instrument input of the LS-2 and feed the other output of the Aftershock into either A or B return of the LS-2, then you can toggle between both drives running in parallel or just one drive.
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Do you mean series (stacked) or parallel? If in parallel then both one drive or the other or both in parallel are possible options (especially if using an LS-2) as you can switch between A and B or have A+B Mix. If you mean stacked in series then you could have one of the six toggle/mode combination slots assigned to stack 2 drives and then program another slot to have those same two drives separated (either on separate jack outputs or via the same output but switchable). There’s not much this thing can’t do.
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No, I believe you can only use it to switch between the left and right channel within one of the six toggle/mode combinations (or to turn stacking on and off as you suggested). The overwhelming nature of the options is what led me to sell mine. I’d be happier with the OFD I think or with a single (gated) distortion pedal.
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I asked the inventor if he might be able to come up with a similar product to go inside a digital piano so that one feels the vibrations of the notes through the keybed, which would take things a step closer to the feel of an acoustic instrument. He took notice of my suggestion.
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I believe @Al Krow is.
