Got mine yesterday. Only had a little time to play with it. It sounds great and tracks great.
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EHX Bass Mono Synth
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Do you play a 5 string or a down tuned 4 string? Very curious to see if it can track the low B or the low C in my drop tuning.
Got mine today, going to throw it in the pedal board and do the practice routine with it to test it out!
Anyone else having trouble with American Musical Supply? I pre ordered on the 22nd and they still haven't shipped mine. Thinking of getting a refund and going somewhere else.
Got mine today. Junk. It's going back.
Doesn't track great on fast runs, even with the sensitivity all of the way up. Sounds are just OK....nothing mind blowing. Every once in a while turning the voice selector makes a loud blip come through my bass amp (maybe mine has a bad selector switch?).
I thought for $125 I'd find a place for it on my board. Nope.
Doesn't track great on fast runs, even with the sensitivity all of the way up. Sounds are just OK....nothing mind blowing. Every once in a while turning the voice selector makes a loud blip come through my bass amp (maybe mine has a bad selector switch?).
I thought for $125 I'd find a place for it on my board. Nope.
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Mine arrived today. I am overall mixed, but I usually am on new gear day.
The sounds are very cool, but for as many modes as there are, I find several of them to be very similar.
Tracking is pretty good, I think, when you adjust the sensitivity knob to taste and really mind your right hand technique. The LED turns orange to indicate when you’ve triggered the oscillator.
The CTRL knob is the key to the range of sounds for each mode, and just a tiny nudge clockwise or counter can make a huge difference.
Octaves/sub goes pretty far, but the usual mud kicks in when you go lower than A.
The wub wub type sounds are a little hokey and limited unless you’ve got an expression pedal, which I don’t.
All told I need to give my ears a break and come back to it fresh. Call up a few songs that feature synth bass and tinker around to see how it holds up.
The sounds are very cool, but for as many modes as there are, I find several of them to be very similar.
Tracking is pretty good, I think, when you adjust the sensitivity knob to taste and really mind your right hand technique. The LED turns orange to indicate when you’ve triggered the oscillator.
The CTRL knob is the key to the range of sounds for each mode, and just a tiny nudge clockwise or counter can make a huge difference.
Octaves/sub goes pretty far, but the usual mud kicks in when you go lower than A.
The wub wub type sounds are a little hokey and limited unless you’ve got an expression pedal, which I don’t.
All told I need to give my ears a break and come back to it fresh. Call up a few songs that feature synth bass and tinker around to see how it holds up.
I wouldn't expect universal agreement on any pedal, much less a synth pedal.
Maybe I haven't spent enough time with it yet - I only fiddled a bit - but I only noticed tracking issues when I left a note hanging. That's to be expected on a monophonic synth.
The sounds...well, I mean...it sounds like the demos...
I still cant believe you are parting w the mothership2. Nothing w an expresion pedal compares to the gnarliness of the MS2. I'm hoping the eventual new future impact update will dethrone the MS2 as my sweepable in your face square synth. Something about this EHX synth always felt flimsy to me from the demos. Even before it was released, the sounds felt overused if that makes sense. I'm not surprised in the mixed early reviews to be totally honest. The pending source audio synth has my attention though.
Yeah...I haven't gotten many bites on the MS2, and I'm ok with that. I love that pedal. The EHX pedal has a few stacked sounds I really like that I think I'll use more than anything on the MS2. The only reason I still have the MS up for sale is I'm hoping to get the SA pedal, and 3 synth pedals seems excessive. (For me, given my limited use.)
The market is way oversaturated for MS2. It was a stupid deal of the day a few times from musicians friend.
I ordered from American Musical Supply when it was supposed to be in stock the order said in process for two days and now says back ordered so I just ordered one from a different vendor. I have ordered a ton of stuff from AMS over the past few years and never had this happen before. I actually called them yesterday and they said it was in shipping waiting on tracking number. Then I called last night they said it was picked up just no tracking number .
Spent a little more time with it last night. I would revise my earlier statement a bit. I think it tracks the pitch really well. I think the attack triggering can get glitchy on quick runs. Whether or not that matters depends on the synth type. Some laser-beamy type synth sounds, you really need that attack to trigger when you hit the note.
I do still think it's related to holding a note and hitting a new one. It doesn't seem to happen when there's clear clean separation between the notes. It actually sounds kinda like an real monosynth if you hold the last note when you hit the next one. But...it doesn't behave consistently...or maybe it's more fair to say that it behaves consistently, but I don't play consistently? A compressor might even it out, dunno. Sometimes it will retrigger the attack and sometimes it won't. And I think it has to do with whether the last note is still ringing louder than the sensitivity? Or maybe whether or not your new attack is louder than the last one? I don't know exactly.
I do still think it's related to holding a note and hitting a new one. It doesn't seem to happen when there's clear clean separation between the notes. It actually sounds kinda like an real monosynth if you hold the last note when you hit the next one. But...it doesn't behave consistently...or maybe it's more fair to say that it behaves consistently, but I don't play consistently? A compressor might even it out, dunno. Sometimes it will retrigger the attack and sometimes it won't. And I think it has to do with whether the last note is still ringing louder than the sensitivity? Or maybe whether or not your new attack is louder than the last one? I don't know exactly.
Thanks for the insight. Much more helpful than "It doesn't work well" or "requires super good technique". You've dug a bit into what it can and can't do and possible reasons why.
