I participated in that thread. I like this one because it has a bit of relevance to the bass’s ubiquity and people’s attitude to it. I’m not averse to smut though.
I used Chromes on my Sterling for about ten years - the same set - which I loved. I had GHS Precision flats on the Stingray I sold recently and they were a wonderful match.
GHS Precision flats were like this too, the E string sounds nicely broken-in from the outset, whereas the others take a few weeks before they lose the zing.
Given the widely copied design of the Precision Bass and the arguments about authenticity and vintage tone, I was tickled when I worked out that “Precision Bass” can be anagrammed as “piracies/snobs”.
Just seen that Mr Black do a few mini pedals. There are a few in the current Anderton’s sale.
https://www.andertons.co.uk/january-sale-pedals?#facet:&productBeginIndex:0&facetLimit:&orderBy:&pageView:grid&minPrice:&maxPrice:&pageSize:96&
https://www.andertons.co.uk/offers/january-sale-pedals/mr-black-mini-flanger-pedal
I sound like a broken record, but the Future Impact should be top of your list.
As for how well it tracks a sustained note, here it is tracking a low E for days at the end of this clip. (It’s not the most representative sample of the sounds it is capable of as I was merely using it as an octaver in this patch.)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WQAQQIQ3zhb3S4hxCJlq8BYt1opXWKhp/view?usp=drivesdk
They’re quite different. Phase 90 is 4-stage whereas the 100 has some weird arrangement where it’s technically 10 stages: 6-stage with modulation and a further 4 non-modulated stages.
Basically create a preset and make sure that is loaded at the point you save a scene. I believe some changes are still saved (such as those edited from the pedal knobs) but there are too many parameters in the pedal for the hub to handle so it just recalls the internal preset instead.
Can only agree with checking out the MXR as a starting point. It’s a bandpass filter but supremely funky.
Plenty of nice lowpass filters out there too: qtron, qballs, Fwonkbeta, Discumbobulator, filter twin…
That was a MuTron III with a dying battery. He said so himself in a bass player magazine interview. There are scans of the article online if you look for them.