Bass players, any experience with Sonnus B2M?

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Have been toying with the idea of buying one of the old 360 systems Bass to CV boxes. I’m not crazy about drilling holes into my bass guitar for something that (at least at this point) seems like a novelty and I’ve heard some crazy things about it (lack of info posted anywhere on the net, forget about youtube vides) such as “it’s cool, sometimes it even plays whatever it wants”).

Then comes the Sonnus B2M:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc8FbTKqgfs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Gfp-zFeZk&feature=related ← I’m not as fast or talented as this cat so not worried about hammer ons Eddie Van Halen style.

Anybody have or play one? For $99 how can you go wrong, seems to work for these guys. And can always do Midi-CV via MultiPedal for my VOS.

Thanks.

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The tracking is very poor. A much better, although more expensive, option is a Roland GK3B pickup which you can mount with 2 sided tape and a Roland or Axon converter.

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I agree, the tracking is poor. I bought one and within 10 minutes decided it was going back. Pigtronix mothership tracks much better if you want a stand alone synth pedal.

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I had the G2m for a little while. The latency was pretty bad, I had to use my freqbox to trigger the synth with portamento to smooth out the pitch. The lower the notes the worse the latency, so the B2m is probably more annoying.

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Generally speaking, lower notes won’t track as well.
This is evident on my Sonnus G2M which tracks alright.

Perhaps you can play higher on the neck.
If you record, think about transposing down to the lower notes in your DAW.

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Thanks for all the feedback.

Interesting perspective compared to the YouTube clips that I saw of really talented bass players tearing it up and it seeming to track well. Possibly the one they showed at NAMM was super tuned or of better quality than the ones you can grab for $99 these days.