202 - MXR Bass Synth: The Bass Pedal that BROKE the internet

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you’re not just handed a brand-new bass pedal, but asked to help design the sounds inside it? That’s where Ian found himself with the MXR Synth Pedal. In this episode, he and Sharon finally spill the story—from the first prototype that blew him away, to the sounds he programmed, and why this pedal left every other synth in the dust.

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0:00.0	Okay,
0:02.4	Okay, Sharon.
0:21.3	What are we doing?
0:22.6	I'm excited.
0:23.6	Hey, I'm excited to see you.
0:25.3	This is going to be really fun today.
0:26.9	Me too.
0:27.8	I'm very excited.
0:28.9	I have been looking forward to this piece of content since July 1st.
0:35.4	Have you really?
0:36.4	I think I have, yeah.
0:37.4	You were actually in the Dunlop booth, too, with me and with Jimmy, Mr. Jimmy Dunlop.
0:46.1	This was one of the hardest secrets.
0:48.8	And I had, like, there was not really much for me to keep because I didn't have anything.
0:53.7	I just knew about it. And whenever people would be like, oh, I wish there was the synth thing. And I'd be like, what? I know. I can't say anything. It was really hard for me to keep, too. And you know, you guys were talking about the MXR base synth. It's right here. I have one here. I have two of them, which feels sort of like... Hogging, bro. What the hell? Meanwhile, there's those of us out here who don't have a single one, and you got two. I feel guilty about it, but I did help make it. I have one plugged in and one that I can just like pick up and show you on this.
1:28.8	But yeah, please, go ahead.
1:30.2	Do you have three because one of them is also the prototype?
1:35.9	I do actually have two prototypes.
1:38.3	Oh my God.
1:39.9	You could supply an entire country with Dunlop MXR Bateson's meddles.
1:44.9	And meanwhile, he's sitting on four of them.
1:47.8	Yeah, the prototype has old firmware in it, though, so it's not.
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