Getting Muse effect out of my Boss SYB-5 synth

j_micho · #1 07-20-2010, 07:42 AM

I'm playing Muse's Plug in Baby on friday and I'm having a hard time getting the right sound. Most covers I've seen on youtube only use a distortion pedal, but that's not right.

I know Chris use a synth somehow on this song, along with a distortion (at the beginning and the end). Did anyone tried using a Boss SYB-5 to get this sound? What kind of wave is he using? Or is it a filter frequency sweep? Logically, I would put my distortion pedal after my synth pedal, is that the right way to do it?

Any help will be appreciated. Please don't forward me to www.musewiki.org

Thanks!

kevteop · #2 07-20-2010, 07:47 AM

It just sounds like a Big Muff to me.

Jimbob Jones · #3 07-20-2010, 08:03 AM

I got pretty close to the sound with Envelope filter>fuzz. It was a bit less 'tame', but it was good enough for live. I haven't played with the SYB-5 that much, but if you can get a decent filter sweep or autowah sound out of it, then run it into a fuzz, you should get somewhere near the sound.

oerk · #4 07-20-2010, 08:09 AM

Been wondering this as well, but I'd be surprised if there's a way to get Muse-esque sounds out of a SYB-5.

It's the most frustrating pedal I own. Expression pedal helps, but not much.

j_micho · #5 07-20-2010, 08:21 AM

I'm getting close using a frequency sweep. Now my main problem isn't the SYB-5 but my distortion. I actually don't own a fuzz/dist, so I'm using my Tech21 VT Bass as an overdrive. It's just not doing the job. I'll try to find a big muff or similar...

DerHoggz · #6 07-20-2010, 09:12 AM

OC-2 and Animato.

Maybe the suboctave square wave on the SYB-5 could do it.

Andrew266 · #7 07-20-2010, 09:14 AM

I read somewhere he uses the EHX Russian Muff. I picked one up cheap on amazon sounds pretty close. Not sure if they still stock it.

Floridabwoy · #8 07-20-2010, 09:17 AM

Bass Synth Wah ->Big Muff Pi

Albibass · #9 07-20-2010, 10:16 AM

Isn't it a flanger/phaser with the rate turned op really high after some distortion?

somegeezer · #10 07-20-2010, 10:29 AM

http://www.musewiki.org/Bass#Effects

bigchiefbc · #11 07-20-2010, 11:10 AM

Plug In Baby is definitely a synth pedal; listen to the very end of the song, you can hear the filter sweep all the way down for several seconds.

If I were trying to do this song, I'd set it for sawtooth wave, decay knob most of the way up so its a very slow sweep, and then yeah some sort of fuzz or distortion afterwards.

j_micho · #12 07-20-2010, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigchiefbc

Plug In Baby is definitely a synth pedal; listen to the very end of the song, you can hear the filter sweep all the way down for several seconds.

If I were trying to do this song, I'd set it for sawtooth wave, decay knob most of the way up so its a very slow sweep, and then yeah some sort of fuzz or distortion afterwards.

I totally agree with you

j_micho · #13 07-20-2010, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by somegeezer

http://www.musewiki.org/Bass#Effects

I was expecting someone to post this...

Genericbassname · #14 07-20-2010, 07:02 PM

I get a passable tone for plug in baby using a boss ODB-3, but I agree with the guy who said OC-2 + Animato

clmayhew · #15 07-20-2010, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j_micho

I was expecting someone to post this...

I bet you weren't expecting... This!
Chris Wolstenholme: The Sticky Ver. 1

DerHoggz · #16 07-20-2010, 09:46 PM

During OoS he only had the DI as far as synth pedals, and I don't believe that any DI setting sounds like that. Of course, I have never used one.

rr5025 · #17 07-21-2010, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by DerHoggz

During OoS he only had the DI as far as synth pedals, and I don't believe that any DI setting sounds like that. Of course, I have never used one.

Setting 6 sounds close. He also had the FM4 which is synthy, I don't have one of those so I dunno if its what he used. I think its the Deep Impact + something else. I can get close but just can't get all the way there.

SHWAG · #18 07-21-2010, 11:18 AM

I think it sounds like he's using an EHX Bassballs with a Big Muff or the built in distortion. I'm sure there's more going on but if you wanted the closest sounds for cheap, that would get it. IMO of course.

bassthunder100 · #19 07-21-2010, 11:33 AM

I get a nice synth sound out of my Digitech BSW, my band have just recorded a cover of Muse's Sunburn and I use it during the verses

Check it out: http://www.myspace.com/adhdbanduk

kaputsport · #20 07-21-2010, 07:10 PM

Well, here is what you need to recreate...

Have Fun...

I have my own setup to do this... But I am not telling