Recommend a decent bass synth

i can only afford the cheap end hardware synths.

  Salient said:

i can only afford the cheap end hardware synths.

Read my Atari thread.

you can still get a K-Station new - for buttons.

that be it.

  ~ism said:

you can still get a K-Station new - for buttons.

 

that be it.

I also recommend this synth, if I hadn't left the power supply at my mate's house (wish it ran off batteries) I'd post up some fat bass

edit: plus, it'll provide a much finer controller keyboard than an Oxygen 8 or whatever... and it has 25 knobs

Cheers!

How much could you expect to pay for a new one?

I think mine was something like £240 but I can't remember where from now, d'oh

fuck i think i just got ripped off then :(((((((((((((((((((((((((

waldorf pulse

I just got a k-station, second hand, good condition for £190 inc P&P...

what do you reckon, have I been ripped off?

  Salient said:

I just got a k-station, second hand, good condition for £190 inc P&P...

 

what do you reckon, have I been ripped off?

Not at all

novation bass station dude

mosca

  Salient said:

i can only afford the cheap end hardware synths.

MAM MB33 Mk-II (affordable 303 clone with MIDI and fun extras)

Waldorf Pulse (Pimp daddy 3-oscillator monosynth with everything. Bass a specialty. Stupid good value for money)

Oberheim Matrix 1000 (Best value analogue synth out there. Extremely powerful. Get one while they're still cheap)

Roland MKS-50 (It's a Juno in a wee box. All the Juno sounds, none of the "poser" premium for fake wood panels. Does Junobass, of course, and SH-101 style acid)

thanks for the info :grin:

oh, and, what would I need to stick it on a rack/stand? Where could I get a small stand for it? (I want to mount it above my oxygen8, which is on my desk (which has really limited space)).

Cheers

  Salient said:

oh, and, what would I need to stick it on a rack/stand? Where could I get a small stand for it? (I want to mount it above my oxygen8, which is on my desk (which has really limited space)).

 

Cheers

umm. couple of old phonebooks? one of those monitor stands that are just a big inverted u-shape would be good cos then you could store something under it.

i'm guessing once you have the thing in front of you, you'll think of a cheap and easy way to mount it

Dude.

Get a Juno-106.

You can pick them up on eBay for next to nothing. I got mine a few years back for $188 shipped, and its practically brand fucking new.

You can do anything with these bad boys. From sub basses to thick gurgling 101 lines, it can pull it off. Not to mention it has a built in chorus, AND has MIDI in, out, and thru.

Something to watch out for that is common with 106 though, is that the 6th voice tends to die out on these guys. Something to do with faulty parts when Roland assembled them. Thats why they go for so cheap. Mine still has all 6 voices working, and I've zero problems. If you are using it for bass, you shouldn't need more than 5 voices anyway.

Also, you can try looking around for older Roland SH synthesizers. The SH-09 has some great bass sounds to it, and it also has an external input so you can filter other signals and whatnot. Those go for cheap too.

  Analogue Wings said:

  Salient said:

i can only afford the cheap end hardware synths.

 

 

Waldorf Pulse (Pimp daddy 3-oscillator monosynth with everything. Bass a specialty. Stupid good value for money)

 

Yeah, get a Pulse! True analogue synth with great, great low end. Sounds ridiculously fat. Really, the K-station and Bassstation sound truly thin next to a Waldorf Pulse. OK, it doesn't have a keyboard, but the K-station and Bassstation keyboards are crap anyway.

A Juno would be nice too... however, it won't sound half as fat and deep as a Pulse... I'd get a Pulse with a decent compressor (something like a DBX 166XL), you won't find any other bass source that powerful for under 500 euro...

I see some 2nd hand Waldorf Pulses for sale here in The Netherlands for as low as 200 euro!! Spend about 150-200 on a nice compressor (no alesis/behringer) and make those walls shake...!!

You can also look for a Waldorf Pulse+, they are somewhat more expensive but they have CV Gate In/Out and have External Input connectors, so you can run the signal of another synth through the analogue filters of the Pulse.. :omg: