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  1. Quatschmacher
    There don’t seem to be that many YouTube videos of this pedal but this one is short and manages to show some of the breadth of variation possible.
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    Indeed it is. If I didn’t have the Octo Nøjs I’d definitely keep it. This definitely has more variation in it but at present I’m trying to get to a point where I do less knob twiddling and more music making so I’ll stick to my other fuzz pedals that I can dial in quickly (as I’ve already spent time with them). This will still be available until about 10.30am when I’ll be taking it to the post office. If anyone here wants it then please get in touch before then.
  3. Quatschmacher
    Just received this dynamic bass fuzz/distortion and it’s great but I can get very similar sounds from the dynamic fuzz side of my Octo Nøjs so I won’t be keeping it. I thought I’d offer it here briefly (at £5 less than I paid for it) to see if anyone is looking for one. If not I’ll return it to the shop tomorrow. Price includes recorded UK delivery and I will post tomorrow.
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    Finally managed to score one of these last week! It’s brilliant and the knobs are so much better than on the SE-02.
  6. Quatschmacher
    Recently sold Rich my Aftershock. Clear communication and prompt payment. Many thanks.
  7. Quatschmacher
    I recently bought an EHX Bass Micro Synth from Leighton. It arrived in the condition described. Thanks, I love it!
  8. Quatschmacher
    As far as I understood it the filter was post-square-wave-generation. i.e. it’s simply a lowpass filter applied to the square wave output signal. Tracking the same pitch on different strings is due to the different overtones present on the different strings. A B on the A string has more overtones than the same B played higher up on the E string. The closer you are to the middle of the string, the closer you get to pure fundamental. Try plucking halfway between the bridge and the fretted note to hear the difference.
  9. Quatschmacher
    I wonder if this is more to do with the overtone frequencies present. The glitchier pedals happen to be the ones which have stronger mid presence. (Doesn’t the T-16 sound glitchier when its filter is open? It did for me.) When the sub octave signal has the low pass filter applied it’s much less noticeable when it drops out when mistracking.
  10. Quatschmacher
    That’s my feeling too. At the very least it’s a great way to try out a bunch of different filters to see which ones one likes. Also a great way to get into the nuts and bolts of how various parameters (cutoff, resonance, envelope amount, etc.) affect the sound. I’d love to keep it but for the sake of my bank balance and decluttering my brain I feel I should move it on.
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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
  12. Quatschmacher
    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.
  13. Quatschmacher
    What bass are you using? My BOD tracks to low F on P and J basses and am using rounds and flats.
  14. Quatschmacher
    Well, given its size, I’m sure that won’t pose a problem.
  15. Quatschmacher
    @Pilchardo, did you get one of these?
  16. Quatschmacher
    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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    Great price on a great pedal.
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    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.
  20. Quatschmacher
    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.
  21. Quatschmacher
    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.
  23. Quatschmacher
    I heard one with a Barefaced 1x15 with a passive jazz on a gig and it sounded fantastic; fat and well-articulated.
  24. Quatschmacher
    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!
  25. Quatschmacher
    Indeed.
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