It has a set screw on the bottom you have to adjust to achieve a clear sound with all of the filters off and the clean channel on 50%. The people on here saying it sounded rough likely never took the time to calibrate it properly. I wish there was a reliable way to emulate the sound digitally so you could save presets etc but so far I haven't heard it. I use it with a passive 4, if I switch to my active 5 it grinds my sound all up in a bad way. When your band is charging ~$1k for a kids show, you can't have those sorts of issues.īut it takes a lot of calibration up front and you can't really switch rigs without re calibrating it. Needless to say, I switched to the Markbass Super Synth after that.
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I didn't notice until I kicked it on and blew the roof off of a room full of 2-4 year olds. Between sets, one of the rug rats adjusted my sliders for me. I was using it for some dance pop songs in a kids music band. I recently sold mine because I determined I couldn't use it anymore. If you didn't, it can be tough to figure out. IF you grew up playing with 80s analog synths with sliders like I did, that's no big deal. While that's the reason the tone is so great, it means you have to dial in your tone every time. The huge drawback is that it's all analog. If you pair it with a hot hand filter, you'll have the ability to make EDM producer's druel. It's perfect for playing EDM and dance pop style sounds. If you want to play your bass as a synthesizer, then you'll have a hard time finding a pedal that tracks as well and sounds as nice. TL DR - It sounds great, but may not work well with your gear. And the synth section is remarkably flexible considering the lack of parameters (which makes it very easy to use) and you can get Moog-ish bass synth sounds and funky Bootsy and Herbie Hancock style auto-wah/envelope filter sounds. You may find that it works perfectly for you and, if so, it's a great sounding device - I love the squarewave sound, coupled with a little sub octave. I bought an attenuator pedal and tried that: No dice.īut this is just my tale of woe. So it's my bass, right? Well I have a Lakland 4401 (active) which it just wouldn't get any sort of consistent result from, but I also have an Ibanez AEB10E acoustic which would yield only marginally more consistent results. So I sold it and the guy who bought it seems to have none of my problems. I carefully hunted down all the advice and instruction I could online, adjusted and tested the internal trim pot through every possible setting, and contacted EHX for advice (they weren't that helpful). I found that signal gating would occur unexpectedly, that pitch tracking on the sub octave was somewhat random when playing on the lower frets on the lower strings, and the amp would fluctuate, seemingly on it's own accord, dropping my level drastically half way through a riff. But the BMS, while sounding great, was a total nightmare to get it to track consistently, not even reliably, just a consistent result. I loved the sound of it, so much so that when I sold it I bought 3 other pedals to recreate some of what I loved, and they don't quite hit it. I also like the Ed Friedland demo from Guitar World.I had one of the current models but sold it after a couple of weeks. The older MS and Bass MS demos by Peter Stroud from EHX are brilliant, and the settings work on the newer ones. If you have noise/dirt/fuzz outside your filter, then it will sound more like a normal guitar effect chain. the thing which really makes the MS sound like a synth is that the filter affects the internal sounds completely, just like a synth. Regarding running the MS with a fuzz pedal. Since the new ones run off a standard 9v plug, it's not wonky at all. I remember that I had to tweak the gate control trimmer on one which I picked up second hand to lengthen the decay, but otherwise I've had no issues. The newer one is capable of sounding the same. Since folks who have mentioned noise also mention wonky power requirements, I'm going to assume they're using the older big box.
In this case, is it their chain, or if my chain helps damp potential noise, or that others are using the big box while the new one is quiet, and so on. Whenever I read about someone else finding something noisy, I wonder if they have a signal chain which is already at or past the tipping point for noise, and whether the new item is just part of a noisy chain.
I don't find mine to be noisy, but I also took the time to eliminate all noise from my signal chain. I currently own the newer MS and Bass MS, and have owned the older MS.
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