MXR Bass Synth: Vintage Analog Sounds, Envelope Magic & Ian Martin Allison Presets
Dunlop has added an exciting new pedal to their lineup of bass products with the MXR Bass Synth. Co-designed with gear guru Ian Martin Allison, the pedal is crafted to easily lock into monophonic synth tones made famous by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Parliament Funkadelic, and more. It comes loaded with eight presets that Allison crafted to match those classic sounds, but users can dive deeper into its sub-octave, envelope, and modulation effects.
“A full, player-friendly suite of controls allows you to shape not just the aforementioned effects but every other detail of your bass synth tone: blend dry and wet signals, sculpt filter sweeps from rubber-band bounce to syrupy slow-motion, adjust filter cutoff and resonance for extra punch, switch between triangle, sawtooth, or square waveforms, and add harmonically rich oscillators for more complex textures,” the company writes.
The MXR Bass Synth also has advanced parameters, stereo capability, tap and expression control, and more to fit into your rig. Get the full rundown from Ian Martin Allison.
The MXR Bass Synth is shipping now for $269.99.
MXR Bass Synth Features:
| Designed in collaboration with Ian Martin Allison |
| Sub-octave, envelope, and modulation effects |
| Excellent tracking and sustain |
| Eight ready-to-play presets |
| Three different waveforms, additional oscillators, tap and expression control, and more |
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Meh. Source Audio C4 is better, imo. 🤷♂️
Ian is the biggest grifter in the bass community, second only to Scott Devine. These guys are more or less bar musicians, with actual artistic accomplishments numbering zero between them. This pedal is trash, doesn’t track, and has very little real world application for 99% of bassists out there who were manipulated into thinking they needed to drop close to $400 on this thing. Don’t even get me started on his $7000 signature Lull parts basses. Or his $50 presets for your 20 minute worship sets. It’s insane. This dude is everything I despise about today’s music landscape. No accomplishments, a mediocre skillset bolstered by super-produced videos and well-edited (in Logic) content that doesn’t accurately represent his playing, yet somehow becoming THE face of bass, while getting rich in the process. Seriously, what notable recording has Ian Allison been on that anyone would want his “sound”? LOL. The nerve of this guy. All he seems able to do is replicate the creativity of others. Wow. You learned someone else’s bass part, note for note. Golf clap for that. Now, if you’re talking about someone like Sean Hurley or Marcus or Victor or Thundercat, etc, that’s one thing. But this guy? Enough is enough.