#Microsynth ehx john mayer free#

It’s not exactly a quality I had previously associated with the often controversial musician. Normally, I wouldn’t endorse a celebrity mentioning his Instagram follower count, but I’m actually impressed by Mayer’s self-awareness. “It’s like, I mean, I love his music, but I can’t give the follow.”įor what it’s worth, Mayer has 5.5 million followers on Instagram as of this reporting, which is definitely low compared to Justin Timberlake’s 63.7 million or Alicia Keys’ 22.7 million. “Because people are super into what I do and sometimes people don’t follow me on Instagram,” he said. “I’m America’s He Who Shan’t Be Named.” Speaking to Cohen on his SiriusXM show, he explained that people might like his music, but not him personally. “I’m America’s ‘I can’t,’” he added in the interview. I would rather an actual synth for that money, say an Arturia microbrute - all those tricks and more, without fighting the veery nature of a guitar.Well, I’ll give this to John Mayer: at least he’s self-aware! The musician and former heartthrob recently told Andy Cohen that he considers himself “America’s ex-boyfriend,” and honestly, he’s right. The mothership is over kill for me personally. Although I really love the microsynth filter.

That's pretty much what the microsynth is doing, but a modular approach has a lot more flexibility. If you want something synthy and polyphonic, I would also maybe suggest thinking outside the box and instead running a muff into a filter pedal, particularly a low pass filter, or wah. But I would also maybe look at other glitchy fuzz pedals. If you like the square wave sounds of the bit commander, I would get that. As such, it can do things that the other two cannot like pitch sweeps etc.

#Microsynth ehx john mayer free#

The guitar's pitch is converted to a control voltage that feeds a free running oscillator. The Mothership is basically an actual analog synth, rather than capturing the general vibe of one. It's not really polyphonic, but can be if the filter is used without the octaves. It's voiced to sound like a classic anlog synth filter (I think it might be based on an old Ehx synth from the 70s) and lets you control the range and speed of the sweep. The filter is actually really great and pretty unique. The microsynth is basically an octave-fuzz, but much tamer than the bit comander, with an on-board envelope filter. The bit commander is simply a glitchy octave-fuzz like an MXR blue box. While these pedals are all grouped together as synth pedals, they're all quite different. I own a lot of synth pedals, including the ones you listed (although I sold the BitCommander as not as good, for what it's worth to you), and the Manta is the first one in a long time to grab my attention.Īlso, adding a chorus, pitchshifter or other effects will get you even further into sounding like a synth. I know it says bass, but it sounds just as good on guitar. I also highly recommend you listen to the Source Audio Manta demos on YouTube. In fact, if you're open to it, you might want to consider an envelope filter with a loop (for example, the Q-tron+), and then toss fuzz into the loop. For me, not having filter movement just makes something sound like distortion/fuzz.

It doesn't have an envelope filter like the EHX MS or the Subdecay Octasynth, the Digitech Synth Wah or the Ibanez SB7 Synth Bass. The BitCommander has the same kind of synth sound you'd find in the MXR Blue Box. The filter will still work on top of that, of course. So, if a two pitches sound okay through a distortion/fuzz, then the MS will process it correctly, but if you add too much to the input, it won't be clean. It's not really a synth, but instead a clipping distortion, followed by a filter. Keep in mind that the Microsynth can handle some things polyphonically, but not others.