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Eggerton Omolet investigates the BEHRINGER BASS SYNTHESIZER BSY600

By now you might have heard that Behringer is designing a bunch of analogue
synthesizers. Still pretty much in its conception phase we might forget
that they already are selling a synthesizer....the BSY600 BASS Synthesizer!


Sort off...this is not really a full fledged synthesizer but a behringer
copy of the BOSS SYB-3 bass pedal. If you don't know, the German Behringer
mostly copies  ***Everything*** that exist in the gearmusicworld. With guitar
effect pedals they don't even hide where it comes from, they even copy the
looks, artwork and whatnot more with some ***slight*** alterations to avoid
issues. And if they get issues with the original brands they just settle it
for $$$$$. Maybe they always settle before they design...I don't know I
wouldn't be surprised. The names are quite hilarious, they just husslebussle
the original product name around randomly to get something new. So BSY600
comes  from SYB-3 and even more hilarious: the CHORUS SPACE-C C300
which ofcourse comes from the Line6 SPACE CHORUS jumbled with some old
Roland stuff...come on!!!!!!!)

Somtimes these copies actually outclass the original copied products (For
example Behringer mixers are superior over their Mackie inspiration,
the Vintage Time Machine analog echo outclasses its EHX Memory man source
in many ways and the Behringer V-Verb is considered a high class reverb,
though I am not sure where that was copied from, they had to stop making it
a few years ago...maybe they got sued I dunno)

Apart from that its flooding the world with more useless plastic crap
for humankinds inexhaustible trash heap, Behringer is an infinite source of
cheap, fun and sometimes usefull things for the studio. A Cheap quick fix
for gear junkies.

Enter the BSY-600 BASS synthesizer, basicly designed for bass guitar players
so they can transform their bass sounds into funky moogesuqe basssynth.
The cool thing is that you don't have to use a bassguitar: a cheap 10$ casio
keyboard, a drummachine, monotron or a Jupiter 8 will do the trick just
as fine.

So connect a drummachine or whatever, twiddle the knobs a bit and
you get insant acid bleeps and bloops. The pedal tracks the pitch of
incoming signal together with an envelope filter to create synthbass
sounds out of your signal. There are 11 waveforms to choose from,of which
2 or 3 sound quite good. Depending on the chosen waveform you can
either control the LFO depth/rate or the envelope decay (so some
waveforms have an LFO controlling its filter and other ones an
envelope follower).

There are knobs for filter resonance and frequency so you can tweak
around. Don't expect any 303 madness or sophisticated finetuning of filter
freakyness its all a bit rough and crumbley or "friable".

There is an extra input where you can connect an expression pedal and
tweak the filter frequency externally sort of overriding the LFO or
envelope follower control.

It doesn't really sound like its inspiration (The Boss SYB)
The BSY600 is a bit more "chorusey" and plastic-y but certainly not in a
bad way...it can sound juicy and fresh and the fun level is out of the roof.
I had a 5$ old casio SA-1 connected to it and it became a very ragtag
undisciplined mini analog monster that could take on something like a
Yamaha CS01, with a lot of imagination.

If you are into these cheap little electronic music instruments
(Monotrons, Volca's etc.) this might give you some exotic spontaneous
freshness.

Check out this youtube movie of someone controlling it with an organ
rhythm box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWVomPRx-kE