EHX Bass Micro Synth Suggested Settings

The Mouse · #1 06-14-2010, 01:28 PM

I dunno guys, I've been fighting with this pedal for weeks now and can't seem to get many sounds (that I like) out of it. Heres the best links I've found so far..

http://www.ehx.com/assets/instructio...-templates.pdf

Any other suggested settings would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Fishyfan · #2 06-14-2010, 01:32 PM

Post your EHX Bass Micro Synthesizer settings

The Mouse · #3 06-14-2010, 01:34 PM

Thanks Fishyfan, much obliged..

faulknersj · #4 06-14-2010, 01:35 PM

What kind of sounds are you going for? I have found a ton of usefull stuff for old school funk (Gap Band sound) and Modern pop Synth Stuff.

The Mouse · #5 06-14-2010, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by faulknersj

What kind of sounds are you going for? I have found a ton of usefull stuff for old school funk (Gap Band sound) and Modern pop Synth Stuff.

I'm just looking for all kinds of synth options. Post 'em up. I'll give 'em all a whirl.

I'm also using a QTron, BassBalls & Boss Synth. Can't say the Boss gets much use but is interesting when used in a subtle kind of way. Thanks guys..

Jazz Ad · #6 06-14-2010, 02:54 PM

The versatility of this pedal is borderline incredible. You can get dozens of completely different sounds.
Your signal may be a bit weak to properly trigger the synth. You should try raising the gain trim pot, just to see if it works.

The Mouse · #7 06-14-2010, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad

The versatility of this pedal is borderline incredible. You can get dozens of completely different sounds.
Your signal may be a bit weak to properly trigger the synth. You should try raising the gain trim pot, just to see if it works.

Adjusting the gain trim pot has helped. I need to fine tune it some more perhaps. But yes, it has helped. Merci

Pandafist · #8 06-15-2010, 03:55 PM

total fail

Just play with it until you find sounds you like

I mean... do you need people to tell you how to get dressed in the morning as well?

cm261 · #9 06-16-2010, 07:26 AM

Actually it's a notoriously hard pedal to properly get your head round.

What exactly was the point in your post?

And TS, a while ago I printed out the settings pages that you mentioned up there, and they were very good, so have a play with all of them and you should start to see how the sliders interact with each other, making it much easier to figure out your own settings. Try moving the start and stop sliders together at the same level to isolate frequencies when you have other stuff as you want it, as this gives you a massive range of interesting sounds.

cheapbasslovin · #10 06-16-2010, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Pandafist

total fail

Just play with it until you find sounds you like

I mean... do you need people to tell you how to get dressed in the morning as well?

Yeah, whatever you do don't ask questions to see if there is something you may have overlooked. Especially if you have a resource that is here to provide expertise that hopefully you will pass on to someone else in the future. Bad idea.[/sarcasm]

Come on now, let's play nice.

Fishyfan · #11 06-16-2010, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by cm261

Actually it's a notoriously hard pedal to properly get your head round.

What exactly was the point in your post?

And TS, a while ago I printed out the settings pages that you mentioned up there, and they were very good, so have a play with all of them and you should start to see how the sliders interact with each other, making it much easier to figure out your own settings. Try moving the start and stop sliders together at the same level to isolate frequencies when you have other stuff as you want it, as this gives you a massive range of interesting sounds.

+1. at first i had absolutely no idea how to make it do anything other than balls-out-every-slider-at-11 sounds, but i saw Jack Lawrence's settings for it with the Dead Weather and i started thinking about the other applications for it and now i find it hard to set up a mono board or a board im going to take anywhere without it.

Pandafist · #12 06-16-2010, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by cheapbasslovin

Yeah, whatever you do don't ask questions to see if there is something you may have overlooked. Especially if you have a resource that is here to provide expertise that hopefully you will pass on to someone else in the future. Bad idea.[/sarcasm]

Come on now, let's play nice.

I honestly cant get BAD sounds out of mine. I just thought it was funny that someone would ask what settings to use on a pedal.
Sue me.

Pandafist · #13 06-16-2010, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cm261

Actually it's a notoriously hard pedal to properly get your head round.

What exactly was the point in your post?

According to who? I've NEVER heard anybody talk of it's notoriously hard to use qualities.
And you know the point of my post.
It was a JOKE.
Calm down everyone.

It's a rad pedal. I personally like setting the attack at full with a slow decay, using all the freqs. Nice synth sweep. Add delay after and you're in outer space. Hope that helps...

guroove · #14 06-16-2010, 01:05 PM

Ed Friedland made a nice youtube video on how to get some supremely funky sounds with it. Gave me serious GAS, but I'm happy with a more natural sounding bass sound for now.

Swift713 · #15 06-16-2010, 03:34 PM

I recently got my hands on one of these again and it's a blast. It's hard to keep track of all the cool stuff you can do with it. I did have an idea though...I've been having a small problem with the filter section breaking up on my B string and I was wondering if anyone had tried using a crossover blend (Moosapotamus) to keep the lowest frequencies clean and eliminate unwanted distortion.