Al Krow

+1 ^^ I suspect most of the patches I'm going to be using in a band mix will be created ones; that's part of the fun for me anyway. But looking forward to finding out what new effects are now available. But I guess it's a completely different ball game if you are going FRFR.

Maybe I was lucky then Installed the updater (otherwise you can't go from 2.71 to 2.8). Didn't bother backing anything up, but there again tbf I've not anything much that wouldn't take 20 mins to pull together. 2.8 uploaded and no presets affected at all: all the stock patches I'd deleted were still deleted and all the presets I'd created were also all still there.

This is perhaps the best looking of the recent line up. Has a 7 band EQ + 12Ax7 tube premap + 600W @ 8ohms + Markbass quality => likely to be a great amp too!

Yeah, but there's something wonderfully archaic and satisfying about twiddling about with pedal knobs when you've got HX Stomp, FI, SA Manta and Aftershock all needing PC editing and / or midi. That's quite enough deep menu diving for one pedal board thank you! Haha - FI for a DAY!!! That's gotta be a record 😁 The 2019 bass synth-lover world is going to split into two camps: the Boss SY-1 and Source Audio C4. Cavaliers and Roundheads. If you're a bass synth-lover which one are you? All good fun. You heard it here first

Neither I got the Q\Strip in a trade for a bass - I had heard really good things about it and was curious. However, consensus with a couple of BC buddies is that, whilst it's a great pedal, it didn't really bring anything additional to the party over and above what is available on the HX Stomp and Grizzly Bass in terms of tone shaping - although tbf I find always being able to adjust pedal knobs easier and more 'real time' than PC editing. It's therefore already been moved on and the funds (and space) will be applied to the new Boss SY-1 synth pedal, due out in a couple of months, which looks amazing!

Yup, absolutely. Just add any Darkglass pedal into the mix and, hey pesto, you'll have a delightful metal sauce.

Look forward to hearing how it stacks up against your DG M900! 😎

Promises, promises...😀

The Source Audio C4 is $239 in the US but a slightly eye watering £249 over here. The SY-1 $200 in the US so I'd kinda expected it to be £200+ over here (following the same logic as the C4), but for some reason they've kept it down to a more affordable it's £175 (and you can get for that price with free delivery from G4M) I guess the advantage to pre-ordering is that it protects against a collapse in the £:$ over the coming 3 months and locks in that £175 price.

So you're in the Know are you now Woody? 😁

@Savethedaves saw you were selling your OC3 to fund your SY-1 (GLWTS btw) - I've done the same with my Q\Strip for exactly the same reason (and also to provide some space on my board!) Have you already pre-ordered your SY-1?

As a 42 year old, that's defo not your most observant or Level headed remark. Some even might encourage you to do some research on Google or YouTube... 😄

The guy has clearly slapped his mark all over this bass-Kingdom and got a lot of Status.

IMO MB's best current EQ, including semi para mids, is to be found on their new Marcus Limited range, which @fretmeisteris about to get. If I was in the market for another MB head, the Marcus Limited 800 or 1000 would get my vote. They look excellent.

Ok cool. Is the toggle switch the little switch between the four knobs? If so, that's going to be a "stop playing and tweak" thing mid set, but no worse (or better) than the Boss SY-1 methinks, for live use. Personally, I'd much prefer to use midi to get the most out of this pedal eg so I could easily scroll through with just a footswitch, and then the benefit of presets over the SY-1 would come into its own, particularly for live use.

Not sure you can access even six with the Stomp button. But if you're only using for home use and not for live this is a non point. You can take your time and use a phone app to access.

Yup agreed that would have been helpful. I ended up initially reviewing a video by another hairy guitarist (which wasn't a bad review either). Please bear in mind, for future reference, that most guitar blokes on YouTube are hairy.

I know where you're coming from! However I'd regard this as being 'semi-preset' rather than 'zero preset' which would indeed be a pain if it was! You can select variation and type precisely i.e. 121 presets to pin down which of the sounds you want e.g. Variation 3 + Bass 'Effect' and 'direct' are just volume controls for your effect and clean, I believe, - that's just quite a neat feature. For me: set the balance and leave and likely to be something like 1/4 clean 3/4 effect overall. So the only real variables are in the second knob's two controls of tone/rate and depth - and I think it won't be too bad to remember your settings for those to go with your favourite variation and type and take a pic = you're only ever likely to need a small number for a given live gig I suspect. But yup, presets would have put this into another league up!