Help with Boss bass synth SYB-5

[priester008]

Ok I got my new MMSR4 and went ahead and bought a Boss SYB-5 bass synth. I looked at all the multi effect pedals boss had and it was overkill for me. Anyway I plugged the bad ass into the pedal and to my Ampeg amp and could not for the life of me find a sound or feel I liked. I'm in an 80's cover band and need Gap Band and Dazz Band type sounds for my bass since we got no keyboards. Am I doing somehing wrong? If anyone hates this pedal let me know about it. If anyone loves this pedal tell me what settings you use so I can save it from being euthanized. Thanks for the help.

 

[Aussie Mark]

I too have stuggled to get a useable sound from Boss synth pedals or multi effects. I'm told that the Akai Deep Impact is the duck's nuts in bass synths.

 

[Lazybite]

I have the boss SYB3 and have found very little use from it... not what I was after... for me the worst part is the piss poor frequency response... and I too can second what Mark says about Deep Impact... have heard alot of rave reviews about them (chris from Muse used to use one before going midi I think)... I have been keen to try EHX Microsynth (??) but cant justify the money.

 

[sultrabass]

Ok I got my new MMSR4 and went ahead and bought a Boss SYB-5 bass synth. I looked at all the multi effect pedals boss had and it was overkill for me. Anyway I plugged the bad ass into the pedal and to my Ampeg amp and could not for the life of me find a sound or feel I liked. I'm in an 80's cover band and need Gap Band and Dazz Band type sounds for my bass since we got no keyboards. Am I doing somehing wrong? If anyone hates this pedal let me know about it. If anyone loves this pedal tell me what settings you use so I can save it from being euthanized. Thanks for the help.

Told ya. Try a Qtron with a little distortion in front of it for fat old school envelope follower tones. Samples tones at Musicians Friend. Or try one of the pedals I mentioned in your last post. They're all winners.

 

[Randracula]

Ibanez SB7.....................

 

[Psycho Ward]

By bass synth, do you mean some sort of effect pedal or stompbox? Or, are you talking about a MIDI controlled synths? A bass with a MIDI out?

 

[Dr. Nick]

By bass synth, do you mean some sort of effect pedal or stompbox? Or, are you talking about a MIDI controlled synths? A bass with a MIDI out?

I believe they are speaking of stomp box type processors that will make your bass sound (sort of) like a keyboard bass synthesizer, ala an Electro Harmonix Bassballs or Micro Synth.

 

[Psycho Ward]

Thanks.

I've never tried a MIDI equipped bass and I would probably like the two worlds separate. But I have a lot of experience with synth programming and MIDI; I built my first synthesizer in 1973.

I only admit this to offer my assistance to anybody that might need help sometime with synths and MIDI.

 

[SteveB]

I only admit this to offer my assistance to anybody that might need help sometime with synths and MIDI.

This is OT, but you may find it funny, Chuck.

I once wrote a chat program that worked over MIDI ports. I wrote the code in OSS Personal Pascal on an Atari 1040ST. I tested it by hooking up 4 Atari 1040ST computers in a ring fashion.. each machine's MIDI out connected to the next machine's MIDI in.

It worked really well and was very fast! Wow, that would have been somewhere around 1989. Time flies!

 

[Psycho Ward]

Too funny! Those were great little computers.

I still have a CP/M machine a KayPro II. I use it with a DKI Synergy II+ General Development System. To this day THE additive synth!

I'm a relic.

 

[SteveB]

Chuck,

We should just venture off to some geek forum and have this conversation...
Funny how most "non-relic" people have no idea of the history of things. Like the fact that the pipe character "|" got its name from the CP/M "pip" command. (which itself was an acronym for "peripheral interface program")

I now release this thread from computing history geekdom.

 

[Psycho Ward]

Yes, it's time... but fun, thanks.