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[quote name='squire' post='687126' date='Dec 17 2009, 10:53 AM']Any second impressions to share with us yet? [/quote] Sorry, had a couple of gigs and a new scoring job come in which I've had to give attention to so have had to put the pedal aside. I'll try and get some thoughts up and/or mp3s over to you at the weekend.

OK. Super Synth - quick first impressions..... Funk players in particular are going to love this. It changes the way I play slightly. Every preset lends me to Bootsy Collins/Ohio Players inspired lines. I find myself playing sparsely with less "ghost" notes to let the synth tones speak. The presets are well though out with squelchy fat tones through to brassy Vangelis type tones. The tone control gives you different variations on the main preset and easy to home in on a sound with this and the cutoff knob. Lots of variation here without resorting to tweaking the software. Only problem is you want these controls to hand and not down by your feet! I could see myself using this a lot in the right band and not turning it on at all in others. Some sounds make you think "Oh yes!" immediately while other are a bit "Hmmnn..." - depends what you're after really. Tracking is very good (no problems at all on a 4 string) and it's very responsive to dynamics. The sound really develops as you play harder. Some presets however don't sustain well along with the natural decay of the bass and you can hear the synth cutting out on long sustains. I suppose you might be able to improve this in the software. Sound quality is very, very good and doesn't suck all the bass frequencies out of your sound. The Octaver is very good too. Clean and EBS-like. Tracks well down to low G/Fsharp before it starts to cut out. The pedal seemed very expensive until I realised it doubled up as an Octaver - and I just bought an MXR last week - doh! What I haven't been able to find yet is your classic Faithless a-like dance/house tone. Will fiddle some more but I'm not downloading the software yet. You have to register it to do that and I don't want to register until I'm 100% sure of it. Getting that way though! I've never tried any other synth pedal so I cannot really compare, but the MB sounds seem more useable to me than the Boss/EH/Octavius/Deep Impact video demos I've heard. Recording sound clips - not a problem. Posting them might take some working out as I've never done that before. I'll try doing something later this evening.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='683262' date='Dec 13 2009, 07:20 PM']That is sick as f***, I would love a lefty Berger.[/quote] Sick as F*** it is indeed. It has got the sound to die for. It's amazing. Impossible to make it sound bad. Every micro turn of the tone knob does something incredible. The neck is fast, narrow and so comfortable in my hand. I can even get my thumb over the top for the E string - all the way up to the 22nd fret! Can't stop grinning when I play it. It's so much more than what I expected or remembered from the first time I owned one in the 80s when I was young and dumb. Even my wife who is normally "why do you need another bass?" gets it and is wowed by it. My six year old son loves it. He has claimed it as his own and wants me to teach him.

Busy weekend! Sorry it's taken a while but I've had a chance to grab a few pics so here goes... Presenting my new (1988) Steinberger XL2 :wub:

I've got one - arrived yesterday.....Didn't expect to get one so soon as everyone is so hungry for it......But it was there so I thought why not I'm in the middle of a busy family weekend right now so haven't even had the chance to fire it up. I will post my thoughts probably tomorrow once the Christmas tree can stand up on its own. This is the first synth pedal I've ever owed though so cannot make any comparisons.

It doesn't happen often that I GAS for a bass and end up owning it so I thought I'd have a post all to my own Remember my Sandberg PM4?: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=68479&st=0"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=68479&st=0[/url] Sold to TommyK and a top bloke he is too. So I'm going shopping tomorrow to buy the bass I turned my back on Sandie for. I wont tell you what it is yet - I don't want to hex the deal. But it's a classic, vintage (about 25 years old) and a stunner. Actually many might think it's ugly as sin but it will still turn heads. It will be a long trip to a far away land to pick up this little lady so won't be able to post back until tomorrow evening. More later.......

An amazing collection. The pick of the bunch for me is the 5 string Status and the SR4 - simple, classic and beautiful. What's the fretboard wood on the 5 string Status?

We're following similar paths with our 75 reissues..... My CIJ 75 started as a natural ash with white pickguard, maple neck and white blocks. It now has black pickguard, Gotoh 201 bridge, Nordstrand pickups and a Marcus Miller J-Retro preamp. I'm lovin' it, lovin' it, lovin' it.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='656987' date='Nov 17 2009, 02:00 PM'][url="http://www.bassshop.be"]www.bassshop.be[/url][/quote] Thanks for posting. I can drool and dream.