Moog Bass MuRF

[funkalicious101]

kind of an odd question. to be totally honest i dont know if anyone here will know but here goes.

for the samples [Invalid or Expired Link Removed], does anyone know if they are using the Murf alone or if there are other effects present as well?

thanks for any help i can get.

 

[Romain]

MuRF alone, I can confirm; it took me five minutes to get those weird crazy arpeggiated sounds from that box. If you love it (and have the money), just go for it!

 

[these_go211]

+1 i have the regular MuRF pedal. it's totally one of a kind. if you like to experiment you won't be disappointed.

 

[these_go211]

oh yea, getting an expression pedal to go along with it makes it even more versatile and mindbending.

 

[funkalicious101]

wow, this thing keeps sounding better and better

too bad it comes with a moog pricetag

 

[JanusZarate]

The bypass is notoriously bad, and Moogerfooger pedals tend to pick up interference rather easily. And yeah, the price is frighteningly high.

...I'm just playing the devil's advocate here

However, if you have a nice environment to work with, they're all awesome pedals, especially the Bass MuRF, IMO.

 

[HenfieldJ]

One you buy it, you are hooked! I have heard about Moog interference problems, but I have never had any issues with the Bass Murf. You will definitely want at least one expression pedal and possibly three expression pedals and one or two extra footswitches to take advantage of what this pedal has to offer!

 

[scotch]

I have the Bass Murf.
It is rad.
It does pick up some weird high frequency interference in my house, but not as often at other locations.
I haven't noticed any tone loss in bypass mode, but I'm working on a true-bypass solution for the future.
Make sure you get at least one expression pedal & a tap tempo switch. It really expands what you can do with it in real-time. Especially the tempo feature. It's great to able to set it to the tempo of the music; actually a little behind in tempo can be cool too.

 

[these_go211]

guess i must be lucky, never had an interference problem. definitely not true bypass, but still sounds good.

 

[Tedintheshed]

I wonder that if one were to take the pedal apart and sheild the case with copper (like the copper you can get to sheild bass guitar control cavities) if that would eliminate much of the interference problems?

 

[hoagie]

I have the Bass MuRF with a tap tempo and 1 expression pedal set up to the envelope control. This thing is NUTS! The one thing i was wondering...

Does anyone have any recommended settings that they keep going back to? Any especially nasty-sounding positions I should know about?

I run a Line 6 Lowdown 400W combo, and I find the MuRF really sounds face-meltingly sick when I have the amp model set to grind. Its downright scary. Also, this thing can give me the greasiest-sounding wet slinky funk bass without phasing, flanging, or envelopes. I really wanna hear what it will do in combination with the Super Octave and EBS IQ pedals i just ordered.

Want to get really nuts? Sometimes for kicks, ill run my bass into my Boss DD3 Delay>MuRF...set the resonance so its an infinite delay, and then just tweak out on the MuRF. it takes on a life of its own, deep space/outher-worldly sonic dimentions.

Any Ideas where in the signal chain this guy fits best?

thanks
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[Grimoire]

Beware of interference. I have a Freqbox, and when it was drawing from my Diago Powerstation, it created noisy havoc, adding hum to other pedals on my board. Rectified by using a stand-alone power-supply, but annoying to have to increase the pedals footprint with that.
Two of the guitarists in my band use Moogerfoogers too - one the MuRF, the other the delay. The delay has been unreliable from the beginning, and the MuRF suffered from similar problems to my Freqbox. A pity, as they are all original and versatile pedals.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Holy crap this thing is cool.

 

[Ron Now]

I actually love the Moog bypass, it helps give me part of my tone. I ran them through a true bypass strip for awhile, but it took away this weird grindy awesome sound I get from my 400+ when I run my Moog's before it.


Maybe I'm the only one, but it totally works for me...but most people will find the bypass terrible.

 

[Colonel Monk]

Don't believe the moog-hating devils . There are many people here who continue to pass on hearsay regarding moogerfoogers -- many of whom haven't even tried them before.

The pedals are not true bypass -- there are reasons for this, anyone who owns a few of them understands why. They are designed to be versatile and used with many types of gear -- not just guitars. For instance, you might use them with line level signals from a console for post processing -- you can't just do this with any old effects pedal. (well you could, but not at optimal signal level) I would not call the bypass "tone sucking" in any way -- it just takes some experience to set the levels right. Anyway, if you're concerned about tone suck or want a true bypass tone the Blenders from Barge and Xotic and others solve that problem.

As far as interference goes -- some people live in bad locations. I've lived in many places where my rig picked up country music, but I don't have any such problems with my foogers. If I did, I'd just wear a tinfoil helmet, rather then sell my MFers.

Anyway, I love my bMurf. It's a very interesting pedal, and can double as a pretty kickass overdrive pedal (Bank 1, Animation 0) with the drive kicked up. I like to feed my oscillating moog LP filter into it, chop that up with one of the patterns (and sweep the envelope control with LFO), running it into the delay. Even better, run the ring mod in the external loop of the delay for echoing madness. Mix this in with your bass sound. Yes, it's a sickness...