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  • March 4, 2011 at 1:29 am #81422
    the snuggler
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    I’ve been having problems adjusting the gain correctly. When I achieve unity gain the microsynth will cut out for the first second of the note. Help me please because I absolutely love this pedal, and it works perfectly with a passive jazz bass. I feel that the preamp is overloading the pedal because if I cut the bass boost knob or turn down the volume the problem goes away. I mean its a stomp box, not a stomp the screw with your knobs box.

    March 4, 2011 at 3:16 pm #114548
    Cryabetes
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    have you tried putting a compressor in front of it?

    March 4, 2011 at 10:56 pm #114550
    nneekolas
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    First off, the output differences in certain frequencies between a passive single coil bass and an active humbucker can be very dramatic. I would highly doubt you will find one single setting that perfectly accepts both of them.

    I play a Gibson Thunderbird with an 18v preamp (Xotic Tri-Logic outboard preamp) and the Bass Micro Synthesizer can certainly play nice with it. I like to set the BMS a little “hot” and adjust the sensitivity control to be a little less sensitive. I would suggest playing around with the volume of your active bass and the sensitivity slider. If you are boosting the hell out of the sub-bass frequencies on the bongo, for example, it wouldn’t be strange to find it overloading a preamp centered at a passive J.

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