hi there

[cibertron]

i am not a bass player i just need someone to answer my question i have been a guitarist for over 14 years i am interested to know if some of you have an electric guitar as well as i have a bass my question is have some of you plugged a guitar to the boss syb-5 bass synth ? if so please e-mail me how it reacts to high registries and overall chords at rpm46@hotmail.com

[ribafish]

First of all, welcome to talkbass, even thou you could name the thread better, so people would know whats it about....hi there doesn't tell us much now, doesn't it?

I don't see whats the problem/question....but, what I've gathered from your post is, if it works with guitar as well...
So, the tracking is usually better with higher notes, so, because guitars are usually one octave higher than basses, it should(and probably does) track better....at least on the bass, if I play in the same octave as a guitar can...it tracks better than lets say low E. As far as I knwo it doesn't like chords, as its structure is monophonic, which means it can track and reproduce one note at a time. However, being monophonic, it can produce some fun glitching if I play chords through. My best bet would be that you try it out with a guitar, you wont destroy anything, if thats what you fear.

[bigchiefbc]

I haven't actually played a guitar through the SYB, but as the previous commenter said, when I play my bass in the guitar range, the SYB tracks just fine.

[robbotbass]

Well Hello

[Explorer]

I'm not going to email you, but I'll note that I do use the SYB-5 (and all my other synth and synthy pedals) with guitar as well as bass.

Like a lot of bass synth pedals, the SYB-5 will not register the highest notes of a guitar's range. The SYB-5 in specific will not track above C5, the note four frets below the octave of your highest E4 string.

None of the true synth pedals I own (with genuine oscillators, instead of using filtering tricks to sound synthy) will play well with chords. You'd have to go with an envelope filter which imposes synthy sweeps, like the Ibanez SB7, or use the Boss resonant filter technology which can be found in the ME50B's expression pedal or in the V-Wah. (Incidentally, I do use the ME50B as a guitar "synth" pedal, even though I'm more inclined to use the onboard "Muff" and other distortions as a signal source, as opposed to the synth they have onboard, due to the synth being only monophonic, then running that through the onboard envelopes/pedal before finishing with some synthy smoothing from, say, the chorus/reverb combination.)

One more thought: I get the best results with genuine synth pedals when I turn up the guitar volume, palm mute and roll off my tone knob. That gives the pedal less to sort through when it's trying to determine the pitch at which to sound the oscillator. I have success where a lot of people say that "This pedal doesn't track worth a darn!" I play cleanly, where there is only one note sounding at a time, and no other noise (pick, thumps, etc.) are happening.

Good luck!

[cibertron]

i play 7 string guitar down tuned one whole step that is why i am asking

[bigchiefbc]

Originally Posted by cibertron

i play 7 string guitar down tuned one whole step that is why i am asking

So you're tuned to a low A on your lowest string? That's the same pitch as the A string on a bass. Honestly, you can't really play much lower than that with the SYB-5 anyways. For the purposes of this pedal, you're basically playing a bass already.

[jpTron]

Good evening, cibertron. We must duel.

[behndy]

DANCE FIGHHHHHHHHT!!!!

[cibertron]

Originally Posted by jpTron

Good evening, cibertron. We must duel.

i play dubstep

[BassNeo]

Originally Posted by cibertron

i play dubstep

Are you a troll?

[whitefuneral]

Originally Posted by cibertron

i play dubstep

You can't play dubstep, it's full of disgusting electronic synthetic fake bass drop that get 12 year old jumping at party's .

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[cibertron]

hey our bass player plays dubstep i just put guitar riffs on top of his bass lines we call it metalstep even out drummer has a electric drum kit for each its own we like metal and electronic music

[mouthmw]

What is the best metal for electronic music?

[behndy]

lol. hard to make friends saying "i make dubstep" nowadays. for people that don't like electronic music it's the most recognizable example of people "not playing instruments" and making noise, and it pisses off people that DO like (or love, THIS GUY) electronic based music, because to them yes, there's some interesting stuff going on in there, but it's been done for 10 years or more in IDM and more experimetal genres.

listening to the watered down version being mass marketed for tweens and rave kids is like The Beatles having to give song rights to The Monkees. i guess. never really liked The Beatles. don't know enough about them to make a good analogy.