Members andtrea Posted August 21, 2010 Members Share Posted August 21, 2010 I miss a lot my Micro Synth (XO), despite I still remember its defects (difficulties to manage volume and sustain... pretty unusable as octaver etc.. no exp. controls), I tried many other ways to "spice" and improve my sound (POG, Whammy, POG 2, recently a Microkorg too) but the MS has a really unique, FAT, warm analogue magic in may settings. But I remember too that when I played bass with continuity (for a period last year) the (guitar) MS really didn't work well, the effect was subtle, and barely preceivable.So I thought: "well, in fact, for the bass frequencies they made a dedicated version"... anyway after a while I sold it. Now, I am playing steadily guitar with a very low tuning (c f d# a# g c) and I don't exclude to use it with bass occasionaly, so which Micro Synth could be better for me?Does anyone made some test or comparison of the XO versions with guitar/bass? Tonal differencies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ponch Posted August 21, 2010 Members Share Posted August 21, 2010 i have recently got a big box microsynth guitar version, and i had it modded to truebypass and the trimpot was damaged so a good guy fixed it. initially before i sent it off the sound was good, but i was struggling for volume mix and it just sounded too squishy. since ive had it fixed i love it, i can get sooo many good sounds out of it now, and everything sounds awesome in the mix, i use a lot of effects with it just as distortion fuzz delay etc, and it works great with all of them, it suprised me a lot when it came back form being fixed how good it actually was. a lot of people on here seem to say the bass microsynth is better for guitar, but i havnt tried that one, and i have the guitar version and the guitar version is amazing. as for the tuning and which version is better, i only ever play in F A* D* G * C F, Standard tuning, and then dropped D, but it works well with all of those, however with your lower settings i dont know. sorry about that. hope this reviews help !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members andtrea Posted August 21, 2010 Author Members Share Posted August 21, 2010 I forgot that Lee Ranaldo uses an old Micro Synth, mostly for noise/ambient feedback storms between "real" songs... and Lee is the Lord of low and impossible tunings... ..anyway, I'm still curios about some comparison between the two MS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ponch Posted August 21, 2010 Members Share Posted August 21, 2010 i thought there was a comparison somewhere on youtube, ill have a look !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Seth Carmody Posted August 21, 2010 Members Share Posted August 21, 2010 My 78 micro synth has the bizarre volume jump issue. Thought it might be components getting old and in need of calibration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SonicVI Posted August 21, 2010 Members Share Posted August 21, 2010 Get the bass version. You won't notice a difference between it and the guitar version with guitar, but you will with bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members andtrea Posted August 22, 2010 Author Members Share Posted August 22, 2010 Get the bass version. You won't notice a difference between it and the guitar version with guitar, but you will with bass.That's pretty much what I was hoping to hear Did you compare the old or the XO ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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