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i have fiddled and fiddled but alas :)

and a quick scan through the forums here and elsewhere i concur

rubbish sound and aweful tracking

bet the wee lassie who sold it to me from evil bay was chuckling all the way .... :)

oh well - any other brands come recommended to get just a few decent fat chunky bass synth tones?

ta muchly

Posted

agreed. not a fan of the syb-5. you can get some good fun sounds but nothing i've managed to get into a track. used it live for some self-indulgence but nothing else. for cheap i'd defo recommend the digitech bass synth wah. pick one up for about 40 quid and it still gets a look in on my board

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I think it's crap. Doesn't really sound like a keyboard bass synth and you can't store sounds in it, so what's the point in a live situation, where you might need more than one setting? That's why the Akai SB-1 was so good...authentic and able to store presets.

I've yet to try a Markbass one, though.

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cheers for the suggestions - had another search on youtube - there are a couple of demos where they get a reasonable tracking going on but reading on basstalk there is suggestion that the only way to get the filters top track reasonably accurately is to compress the bejeesus out of it first to get a steady constant input - maybe the youtube reviewers are being a bit economical with the facts? :)

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There was one in a recording studio and I got it onto a track working behind another bass to provide some oddness, but I didn't like most of the settings and I was on my knees tweaking the controls between notes to make it interesting.

I can't see I'd ever buy one.

Posted

I've had most bass synth pedals and the only one I think comes anywhere near to what I'm after is the Akai Unit (SB-1 Deep Impact)

The Korg (G5?) was ok though but a bit thin sounding.

Posted (edited)

i've had an syb3 and a 5 and didn't get on with them for the exact same reason as steve-bbb

i have a digitech bass synth wah now - it's a bit more predictable.

Edited by ahpook
Posted

EHX bass micro-synth. I replaced my SYB5 with one of these. It still won't store presets, but is a bit more musical and tracks better. Granted, it's not really a synth pedal at all (just good filters and an octaver), but still better than the SYB-5.

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[quote name='dudewheresmybass' post='1364557' date='Sep 6 2011, 08:24 PM']I still use mine, but with an exP pedal.
Set to modes 10&11, I get some really great swell/ sweeps[/quote]

actually, yeah, I used to run mine with an expression pedal and things improved [b]vastly[/b]. The whole setup was just too big for my board though.

Posted

I'm not a huge fan of the Boss pedal. The Roland V-Bass has some great synth patches though.
If I want synth type sounds I'll either mix up a bunch of effects ( OC2 is a very good starting point)
or just use an actual synth (which is my preference lately)

Posted

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' post='1364557' date='Sep 6 2011, 08:24 PM']I still use mine, but with an exP pedal.
Set to modes 10&11, I get some really great swell/ sweeps[/quote]

I can't remember what mode I used but I reckon it would be decent with an exp pedal. Do you have a choice of which parameters to control or is it fixed?

Posted

I bought one of these off e-bay a while back and yes, it was complete 'stool' in every respect.
The tracking was just woeful if you played anything but one sustained note.
I ended up PX-ing it along with a Boss AW-3 (which was also rubbish) against an MXR M82.
Along with Mr. Academy I'm interested in trying one of those MarkBass Synths too.

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