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You do need to trick it out with a drop-D tuner, though! :-)

I've been a novice who plays for fun for the past 30-40 years!

You read my mind!

Nice. I was thinking looks-wise too, something furniture-like.

Nice - I've been debating making a living-room friendly cab.

If it's going through the PA, then the amp is just for monitoring. Would angling the cab do the trick?

A Markbass amp & 1x12 cab.

One of the variants is tweaked by Yamaha.

You might have a point there...

I think that's one of those urban myth things, just like with Rics. :-) Mine's 12 years old and I've had more trouble with other cars (Ford, Vauxhall, BMW, Seat); I think the Toyota engine was a smart move. (The L is for "Loads", BTW. :-) )

Precision = Transit van.

Rickenbacker and a Lotus - quirky, a few rough edges, don't follow the pack, huge grin on face. (Mind you, I might be buying a Land Rover soon too!)

Hi! Whereabouts are you? I've been wanting a keyboard practice amp and a small cab, so they could be ideal just as they are!

Yep - I tried that (that's how I found out that all of the controls there wouldn't do anything). Here's a screenshot from a youtube video https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=markbass+super+synth+editor&fr=yhs-invalid#id=1&vid=1c0a01228ca2683d5d4a39230839112a&action=view It's the tab under the cursor arrow there. In the video, the person clicks on it and it shows the oscillator controls. But when I do it they're greyed. Aha! - the video explains it at 2:30! The large Tone control has to be fully clockwise and showing "User" - then they are enabled.

I think it's a darned good pedal! I've also got a Boss SYB-5, which I never really bonded with and an EH Synth-9 which rather good too. But the programmability of the MB one is a big feature.

I was playing my bass through it and changing settings interactively. (The panel I'm talking about is the 2nd tab at the right half of the window.) I'll check out that site - thanks! (Ah - I'd been there and downloaded those patches, though I haven't tried them.)

A compressor before the octave pedal helps. I also toyed with putting a passive tone control in front of it, so roll off the harmonics which might confuse it. I've just got a Markbass Super Synth, whose octave function seems OK; it offers +1. -2, and -2 octaves and tracks pretty well. Not cheap if you just want an octave, though! My other octave pedal is an Aguilar Octamizer and, as folks have mentioned, it's happy going to the C (or maybe B) on the A string; I also found that the sound breaks up if you hold a note and let it fade. I put a CP-1X compressor in front and that made a distinct improvement on stability and I seemed to be able to do an A too. The reason I chose the Aguilar over others I tried (MXR, Boss) was that it kept the character of the notes played, rather than producing a dull mush; however, needing to compress and/or turn down the tone kindof defeats that. I think that doing octave below on the lower registers on a bass may be hitting the laws of physics. Some years ago, I made an octave up pedal (I think based on something in Elektor magazine) and it was interesting; essentially half-wave rectifying the signal doubles the frequency and adds a distortion. Another thing I've considered is trying a sub generator rack unit - I don't recall the brand though (dbx?). And finally, as an adjunct, I've got a Minitaur, which can do some interesting stuff; however, I'm not very good at standing on one leg, so playing it is a bit of a struggle for me!

So, I bought a Super Synth and it works really well... ...and then I decided to connect it to my computer via USB and have a fiddle with some of the settings. Has anybody made any successful patches? Are there any references, downloadable patches available? One panel in the editor app, showing controls for the VCOs, is greyed out - is that correct? Great pedal, shame there's only 12 presets to save, but then again, how many would you use is a set?

I've never, as far as I can recall, played one of these and I never gave them a second glance back in the day. However, they seem to have taken on a cult status and I would buy one for that kind of price.

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Perdone me, señor mcnach.

Yo sabia.

yo se

I speak Spanish. :-)