Whatever odd little swarm of buzzes you raise in the voice portion can be shaped with the attack delay control. Is the guitar voice in need of just a touch of background static? Tweak that square wave to taste. Is that octave tone a little too bright? Mix a little suboctave in. These four voices are processed in parallel, allowing you to mix their various idiosyncrasies as you please. The octave voice could go head to head with Roger Mayer’s Octavia pedal, and the square wave voice is a fuzz box tone of Sixties vintage, full of crackle and fizz. The guitar voice is a dry signal, somewhat colored by the Micro Synth’s preamp circuit, and the only voice that will tolerate chords without generating wickedly erratic distortion. The suboctave voice adds a tone one octave below the guitar’s pitch, sounding very much like the Boss Octave pedal. In brief, the voice section consists of three forms of distortion and a clean tone. The controls are in two groups, voice and filter sweep, with a couple of sliders to control the note attack and entry of the filter characteristics. A trim pot on the back of the pedal sets the unit’s sensitivity to either single-coil or humbucker pickups, but all the important controls are in the form of sliders on the unit’s face. The Micro Synthesizer is housed in a sheet-metal enclosure measuring 8 x 6 x 2 inches. ![]() Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer Construction Imagine feeding your guitar to three fuzzboxes, an automatic volume pedal, and an automatic wah, and you’ll begin to get the picture. Unlike other guitar synthesizers, the Micro Synth is really a pedalboard’s worth of stomp boxes rolled into one, allowing your guitar (or whatever else you plug into it) to emulate the phat tones of vintage Seventies synth. Perhaps some clarity will emerge by first clearing up the “synthesizer” misnomer. Some exclaimed, “ It’s about time they reissued it!” Others muttered quietly, “ Yeah, I had one once, but I couldn’t tell if it was working right.” Love or confusion, indeed. When the word got out that we are reviewing Electro-Harmonix’s reissue of their Micro Synthesizer, reactions were decidedly mixed. I know that's all good pedals, but right now I can't try them Audio Poly mode filter sound very nice also.5 Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer Video Review and synth & video games & dirty/broken and so on JustNick also suggest me Bit Commander.Ībout sounds that I want from pedals.nothing specific I like everything,more possibilities = better Me:"I'm just stuck between : Bit Commander, OctaSynth,Organizer & Microsynth."ĭennis: "I would say you would get most out of the Bit Commander and POG2 those are the 2 synth/pitch pedals i see myself use most often cause the sound so evil." Not so long ago I was in touch with Dennis Kayzer (guy from demo videos) about some pedals> I heared just good stuff about Octasynth.thanks for remind me Good tracking and a filter that goes from mild to bat shit. Posts: 666 Joined: Tue 3:45 pm Location: Waldorf, Maryland ![]() To me it has a VST in a pedal sound to it It is pretty rad when you put a distortion after it for a wall of synth noise soundĮdit- I just wanted to add that the Bass Micro Synth will nail that lead synth sound in the Black Sabbath song Who Are You? MeSoFuzzy I still have the Behringer only because nobody wants to buy it. Someday I'll have a third Bass Micro Synth I love how the EHX can have a broken sound to it when the input is under or overloaded. will trigger it), so I'd imagine its no issue with guitar. On its own, its a killer octave up, down, and sub fuzz! SYB's are cool, but the EHX synths give you more control The EHX Bass MIcro Synth sounds fabulous with drum machines(snares, hats, etc. ![]() Bit Commander needs to be paired with an envelope filter. I've checked out the SYB-5 and 3 in stores, I like them. I've had two Bass Micro Synths, the Bit Commander, and have the Behringer Synth pedal.
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