Description
Designed with bassist Ian Martin Allison, the MXR Bass Synth is built for players who want synth textures without ditching their bass guitar. It’s the kind of pedal that rewrites what your rig is capable of on the fly — one setting locked into a filthy, pulsing Nine Inch Nails-style growl, the next dialed toward a glassy, Michael Jackson-adjacent pop bounce.
Rather than burying you in menus, MXR handed over a set of hands-on controls for shaping frequency, response, and voicing directly at your feet. That means real-time tweaking mid-set, not just recalling a fixed patch and hoping it fits the song. For players who’d rather skip the deep-dive and get playing, eight onboard presets cover a wide swath of synth-bass vocabulary — from thick, gooey sub-movements to sharp, percussive pulses — so you can drop into a groove the moment you plug in.
On the board, this sits best right where your bass signal starts, ahead of drive or modulation, letting the synth engine track your dynamics cleanly before anything else colors the tone. Whether you’re chasing heart-pounding low-end throb, slow-motion molasses swells, or silky, hi-fi lead lines, the MXR Bass Synth opens up a genuinely different sonic lane for bass players.
- Co-designed with bassist Ian Martin Allison
- Eight onboard presets spanning funk, industrial, and pop synth tones
- Hands-on controls for shaping frequency, response, and voice
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