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JTurbide wrote:Just found a slightly beat up MS20 mini in a pawn shop for under $200

Great! It's a cool synth. Don't hesitate to ask me questions about it.
First tip that I can give: turn up the HPF peak to about "4" and adjust HPF cutoff to your taste. This will add "ooomph" to your bass sounds. The MS-20 is often said to be too lame for bass leads. That's just not true.

I just ordered a keyboard stand and bench so I can practice piano* without sitting on the floor. I'm hoping that practicing piano will help make me more creative.

*using a casio keyboard from the 1990s that I inherited from my niece and only the "piano" sound works.

Pepe wrote: Great! It's a cool synth. Don't hesitate to ask me questions about it.
First tip that I can give: turn up the HPF peak to about "4" and adjust HPF cutoff to your taste. This will add "ooomph" to your bass sounds. The MS-20 is often said to be too lame for bass leads. That's just not true.

Hey thanks I thought peak had to be maxed for that, I'll try turning it down a bit!
I won an auction for a volca sample on ebay too! Can't wait to mess with both togheter.

Regarding the MS20 (and $200 is a great price btw) : use a mono to stereo splitter and double the output back into the external input and then tweak things to taste. You can get lovely overdriven sounds that way.

Deltaphoenix wrote:

JTurbide wrote:

Pepe wrote: Great! It's a cool synth. Don't hesitate to ask me questions about it.
First tip that I can give: turn up the HPF peak to about "4" and adjust HPF cutoff to your taste. This will add "ooomph" to your bass sounds. The MS-20 is often said to be too lame for bass leads. That's just not true.

Hey thanks I thought peak had to be maxed for that, I'll try turning it down a bit!

I'm talking about the high pass filter, not the low pass filter. Most people think that the high pass filter must be minimized for bass sounds. But the MS-20's HPF is an underestimated tool for achieving better bass sounds.
Plus: what oscillateur said!

Pepe wrote:But the MS-20's HPF is an underestimated tool for achieving better bass sounds.
Plus: what oscillateur said!

Tip for all bass sounds - boost the [low] mids! be conservative with boosting the sub/bass!

Pepe wrote: I'm talking about the high pass filter, not the low pass filter.

Yeah me too , and thanks for the tip oscillateur, I definitely need a splitter or two.

Oh, sorry! And while I think about it ... I believe that I always had the cutoff on 4, and peak indeed quite maxed. I mixed that up, I fear! I really need to play my MS-20 mini again!

Welp, my christmas ended up being lit, just later on.

My mom got me a J Macsis Jazzmaster coming via sweetwater by the end of the month. A buddy of mine also sold me his Squier Vintage modified Jaguar for dirt cheap.

So I went from never even playing ether type of guitar to owning both. Not a bad way to start the year.

Well, lexicon LXP 15 ordered too !
I hope it's good, can't find much videos on these but for a little under $150 CAD shipped ... hard to go wrong

BitchPudding wrote:Welp, my christmas ended up being lit, just later on.

My mom got me a J Macsis Jazzmaster coming via sweetwater by the end of the month. A buddy of mine also sold me his Squier Vintage modified Jaguar for dirt cheap.

So I went from never even playing ether type of guitar to owning both. Not a bad way to start the year.

Both solid Those VM Jags are super light too.

Fender Toronado is on the way. Was my first guitar long ago but I stupidly sold it. Pumped to have one again.

dugwolf wrote:Fender Toronado is on the way. Was my first guitar long ago but I stupidly sold it. Pumped to have one again.

It was my second (after a crappy squier tele) and I will get another one eventually.

Post pics when you get it!