eubassix Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 (edited) No longer used/required so looking to move-on. Legendary and rare) unit: in totally excellent (mint'ish) condition both externally and performance-wise; and comes with the originl box, power supply etc. Last one of these (in A1 condition) I saw on ebay went for £390. Asking £369 (.. sold on ebay for £410) Edited June 15, 2011 by eubassix
pantherairsoft Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 Sold mine for £50 quid as well about 4 years ago to a mate. I thought I'd ripped him off as one went on eBay that night for £35 quid... I remember it well! How stupid was I!!!!! Awesome pedal!
BarnacleBob Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 Pardon my ignorance, but what does it do? And why are they so sought after? BB
pantherairsoft Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 It is a Synth pedal. Creates sounds similar to the EHX Bass Micro Synth, including the octave, fuzz etc... Bonus with this is it has presets (9) I think, so you can use multiple sounds, and switch between them (including scrolling through while playing ready to select the next preset) using the foot switches. So I guess like having 9 Micro synths in a row... Plus they didn't manufacture it for all that long so it was quite collectable anyway... plus its the only good pedal they made :-)
bartelby Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 [quote name='alexclaber' post='576931' date='Aug 21 2009, 06:03 PM']I won one of these from Akai! Alex[/quote] Nice.
pantherairsoft Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 [quote name='alexclaber' post='576931' date='Aug 21 2009, 06:03 PM']I won one of these from Akai! Alex[/quote] Git!
Kev Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 its a very good synth pedal, very collectible, gutted when mine decided to break (and then further broken by me attempting to fix it)! IMO, is a moog compared to the microsynth, not sure how it compares to the chunk systems one though. If you have the readies, but it!
Pete Academy Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 [quote name='BarnacleBob' post='576919' date='Aug 21 2009, 05:43 PM']Pardon my ignorance, but what does it do? And why are they so sought after? BB[/quote] IMO the only bass synth pedal that actually worked (although yet to heard the MarkBass one).
wizbat Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 [quote name='pantherairsoft' post='576920' date='Aug 21 2009, 05:46 PM']It is a Synth pedal. Creates sounds similar to the EHX Bass Micro Synth, including the octave, fuzz etc... Bonus with this is it has presets (9) I think, so you can use multiple sounds, and switch between them (including scrolling through while playing ready to select the next preset) using the foot switches. So I guess like having 9 Micro synths in a row... Plus they didn't manufacture it for all that long so it was quite collectable anyway... plus its the only good pedal they made :-)[/quote] Had one, thought it was overrated, now got a unibass, much more useable.
alexclaber Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 [quote name='pantherairsoft' post='576920' date='Aug 21 2009, 05:46 PM']plus its the only good pedal they made :-)[/quote] Actually the Unibass was good too, though very specialised. And although I haven't owned one I gather the Hexacomp was pretty amazing. My old FX days... Alex
BottomEndian Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 [quote name='alexclaber' post='576975' date='Aug 21 2009, 06:32 PM']Actually the Unibass was good too, though very specialised. And although I haven't owned one I gather the Hexacomp was pretty amazing.[/quote] The Hexacomp was a pretty awesome concept, but I felt it was sadly let down in the execution. There was some sort of weird, freaky phase-shifting going on with the process of separating the six bands to compress and then recombining them in the EQ stage. Akai tried to market it as a product feature, when actually it felt like poor circuit design. I struggled on with it for a long time (trying to find a useable sound that wasn't horribly scooped) before selling it. Got about £80, which is more than I'd paid for it. Job done. The G-Drive, on the other hand (same idea, but six-band distortion instead of compression) is a work of fricking genius. Unfortunately, both it and the Hexacomp are mahoosive beasts, so the G-Drive rarely ends up on my board. Shame. The Unibass used to be a big part of my band's sound. We'd run the Unibass output through a Big Muff to a separate guitar rig, and it'd confuse the hell out of people. :ph34r: I'm getting a lot more organic and natural-sounding these days, so it's languishing a bit, but it's a lot of fun to use -- makes your three-piece into a four-piece. In fact, reading back what I've written, it's clear -- I love Akai. There. I've said it. I've no need for a synth pedal though. As you were, people.
alexclaber Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 I had one amazing sound with that board which involved having the Deep Impact, Unibass and BassDrive on simultaneously. DOOM. (Though I didn't know it was called that but I was working with a 7-string guitarist...) Alex
bartelby Posted September 3, 2009 Posted September 3, 2009 [quote name='eubassix' post='588453' date='Sep 3 2009, 11:38 AM']SOLD (on ebay @ £410)[/quote] WOW! Mine has been sat on my desk for about 2 months.... Hmmmmm...
bassaussie Posted September 4, 2009 Posted September 4, 2009 [quote name='eubassix' post='588453' date='Sep 3 2009, 11:38 AM']SOLD (on ebay @ £410)[/quote] That's very impressive. I bet the buyer is non-UK based, though, as the weakness of the pound is making it easier for non-UK buyers to throw larger values at UK items. Still, for the Eubassix (and any other UK sellers), it's brilliant.
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