Here’s a mod for the old style Bass Micro Synth for true bypass. I assume it works just fine for the guitar synth as well.

This is a drawing another forum user at Talkbass made, and my pedal tech used it accordingly, however there’s a mistake we discovered.

Now, where it says “discard” on that brown wire, DON’T DO THAT! Instead, make that wire connect on the switch where the green wire is connected in the diagram. Then, discard the green wire.

This is just what he’s told me, I can get more detailed instructions if necessary. Basically just rewire the switch for how it is there, with those 2 wires switched up.

I burned the hell out of my bass plucking hand. Rock on.

If you want to see how much quieter guitar technology has become in 40 years, go check out a video of Cream-era Clapton and his Wah pedal. He’s running it through his Marshalls of course, and it is the noisiest thing I have ever heard.

edit: here we go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvBlICAzxJw

If the guitar feels and sounds great to you, there shouldn’t be any other reason to not buy it. I’ve never had problems with my Gibson bass into my pedals. In fact, the awesome Gibson humbuckers kick my fuzz’s ass and make it sound even better. It may just be that Gibsons are typically higher output pickups than Fender’s pickups, and as such clip the pedals? I’m not the wisest when it comes to electronics though so take my ideas as such.

I think with your amps EQ, the pedal knobs, and your guitar, you can be sure to get anything to sound just as good as anything. If you’ve found a guitar that you love, don’t let something like this stop you, IMO

I sent my micropog in and had it back in under 2 weeks…but I think they sent me someone else’s micropog, or a brand new one. I mean, mine had tons of facial scratches and a couple really identifiable marks. Unless they repainted the pedal, I got a replacement

And we were just starting to have fun!

I had always heard that most of the XO series were now all TB. Is that not true? I just recently found out my Stereo Mistress isn’t true bypass. I thought the Stereo Polychorus was definitely TB…Hmm. I need to go check some things out!