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Also helped that @knicknacks drummer was really good! I agree with what you’ve been saying @Al Krow - what this Mxr seems to have nailed is ease of use and accessibility- ild love to try one!

For many years now my main bass has been this Sadowsky metro will lee - it's a bit of a unicorn in that it doesn't really sound like other Sadowsky I have tried and I love it. However if you took all my basses away from me and told me I could only buy one - it would be a precision and I went on a long search for what I wanted... and now have this Jazz and a Precision. I seriously seriously suggest buying a P bass of some kind - don't devalue or take away from what the Sadowsky is doing - it does its thing and it does it well. A P bass is a different thing, and in my book at least is better with a vintage bridge and passive electronics .... A passive Sire P bass can sometimes be found for not much more than the cost of switching the pickups pickguard etc and paying for someone to rout your bass and install for you.

depending on the pitch detection can you do that with your left hand?

That was my take from it too! @knicknack's video also sounds great.

Practice! No expert but I found rethinking hand placement helped - so getting used to he low E on the B string. also testing it with the PA - I found that for some weeks the extra low end wasn’t that useful - but the extra notes within easy reach were still

see if you can try some Bartolini original series.

@bassist_lewis enough about the pedals, who's the guy in the tuner?

Comparisons with key bass in this video

It’s like a very cool banana!

Now now stop getting competitive!

I think if you see this screen and get excited by the possibilities then the FI4 is for you if that fills you with fear and dread - the Mxr is for you! (if that looks a bit dumbed down and simple - ignore us all and get back to your Zoia …)

I sold a few pedals last week and realised I had the ££ - so was very much asking myself if I wanted one of these and jump on the “new thing hype wagon” - eventually decided I didn’t need synth sounds but if I did the FI4 Quatschmacher is selling would be better bang for buck (more in-depth vs harder to programme) edit - it’s sold, there’s a FI4 vip too in the for sale

Dunno I’ll leave this here, there seems to be parallel paths which the hx stomp should be able to do

Interesting, I think our pedals must sound different- I used the PedalPCB schematic. it depends on input signal but mine is distortion with gain below 12oclock and then gets increasingly wave folded as you turn it up. The mix for me lets me blend between wave folded madness and a cleaner signal - it’s gone through a preamp stage which has its own colour but running it with a clean blend in the loop of my hx stomp the effect isn’t much different at all. I had smd resistors, ceramic caps and the diodes in the diode ladder - saved ages soldering!

that’s interesting, for me the aggressive Wavefolding is what I like about that pedal - and my gain pot is pretty good for most of its range, which schematic did you use? Will it do the wah wah thing with a volume pot that Justin medal Johnson showed in the video with pedals and effects? in terms of blend…. The prunes and custard does have a blend already, and a switch to inject extra low end into the signal … what have you built if there’s no blend??! SMD stuff - I cheated and got jlcpcb to do the assembly for me! So much simpler and cost effective. My laziness means ild like to try replacing the film caps with smd parts - but know it’s not quite so simple as that - and when I looked for some values the c0g part cost more than a box film cap would. I will check it out, I’ve been looking at the fdeck one and the broughton one for inspiration so far.

What's the deal with trim1? It looks like space for a 16mm pot, but that would snare with the Tone and volume pots?

I've been tempted to make similar but topjacks. I also want to work out a nice relay bypass system. Also on my project list, which I will do some/all off: 4 more of the Aotearoa prunes and custards - I've got the boards and why not! (plus someone asked nicely and bought mine, so I need one again!) A mini highpass/lowpass filter/buffer thing in a Gorva M45 Would like to try the SS/BS F*** overdrive, I love the Mini, and they are designed to be different enough they compliment each other Make a big muff of some kind. It's a rite of passage right?

I don't even thing you do even - main jack TRS is stereo .... You can use the expression for stereo if you want to use a pair of TS cables or something. Is it just me, but I don't get the stereo thing, I'm guessing it makes more sense for recording and non live stuff?

I was reading the Talkbass version of this thread!

I don't get the preset moaning thing. If you use synth bass a lot, you're probably not the intended audience - FI4 or an actual key bass would make more sense.... If you're in a band where the whole band being on midi controlled effects sequenced to the click and needing midi control, it's probably not for you... Occasional synth parts, and any band where there's a second between songs (when the guitarist is tuning?) to reach down and click onto your next preset... surely you'll be fine? I really don't get the whole "Oh if only it had X" thing you see on here, and a lot on talk bass... "oh if it had X Y and Z I'ld be buying it" - well there are already products that do that get that instead. Most companies look to slim down the UX into something that is simple and usable. If you look at Source Audio for instance who tend to get lots of opinions and try and do them, they get criticised as they are too complex...

Out of interest, how does it feel @Chadu25 as just an octave?

It’s gone for simplicity and accessibility, I guess if you want more presets (plus more options) you would be looking at a Fi4, C4 or EnzoX rather than this. The accessibility means it wouldn’t surprise me if this MXR outsells those three combined!

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