Taurus 3 with effects

Its so quiet around here so i thought i would start a new thread. I picked up a new taurus 3 a few weeks back. I have been so entertained with it that pretty much all i do is stomp on it and turn the encoder. What a sound! My neighbors like it too! :smiley:

I havent even tried it with effects yet until today. I ran it through my mf 102 and 101. Not everything was immediately awesome but i was able to quickly dial in some outrageous sounds.

What effects are you using with your bull and how?

I’ve been using the T3 to supply the low end for my solo act (which before the bass was all fingerpicking folk stuff) and haven’t really been able to justify using effects except for a bit of reverb. I guess my attitude is that I don’t want anything interfering with or detracting from the T3’s admittedly constrained role in my music, and the feedback on my set with just the “raw” bass has been very good, lots of comments regarding how well the low end dovetailed with what I was doing.

As an alternative to outboard processing, I learned from a post on the taurusbass mini-site that cranking up the LFO can produce some really intriguing delay-type effects. Again I’m not sure these things play well with the kind of music I make, but really cool all the same, and you don’t need anything extra.

With my LP or DX7, incidentally, I find the moogerfooger array essential–nearly always run at least subtle phaser and delay, and also use ring mod a great deal. But the T3 sounds best sans processing to me.

Taurus 3 and Murf is a great combination.

Too bad I had to return my Murf…it was a great pedal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESSwetggF4Q

Hi there,

Although I don’t use any effect with my T3, some time ago when I had my Taurus 1’s I sometimes used to pass it through a Phaser and it sounded really good. :sunglasses:

On occasion I like to put the bull through a dual chorus dialed up from a Korg SDD-1200. Really big and wide without sacrificing tone.

so far only a little bit of reverb is used

I would think some analog delay would sound pretty cool…

Oh, it does. :slight_smile:

I have used every Moogerfooger on the Taurus 3 (aside from the MF-107 and original MURFs) – chained together in different orders and individually.

I can suggest them all to the experimentalists out there, but musical quality in the realm of sound synthesis has become increasingly more relative as time continues to pass on.

Believe it or not, the MF-101 is the only one I have yet to find a place for despite it being, in the practical sense, the most “musical” Moogerfooger out. The one I used though was a Big Briar edition and was likely not in the best condition though, so hopefully when I pick up a new one, I will find a place for it in my varying signal-chain.

I need to send in my MF-104z for the Spillover Mod, but needless to say, it was my firstMoogerfooger and still, by far, my favorite.

The MF-103 is new to my signal-chain, but I have found some nice places for it already. The new MF-103’s red rockers have a fine, grainy texture to them that I quite like and I’m curious if they’ve begun doing this with all the new MFs now. It isn’t that slick kind of plastic that I see on all my other rocker-rockin’ MFs.

The MF-105m is fun stuff; I can only imagine this enigmatic pedal opening up once I actually start programming my own patterns using the free Editor (been slacking on the MIDI front up until recently).

The MF-102 should not be overlooked…ever. It is capable of providing some serious tone-clustering. It is one of those units that you will keep coming back to and finding new uses for it.

The only pedal I have had some qualms with isn’t an effects pedal, but the MP-201. I certainly see the potential there, but I don’t think I’ll be using it to control parameters of the Taurus 3 as I thought but more of a way to make sync’d tweaks to some of my MFs. Perhaps as my workflow because my more MIDI-driven I will find further use for it.

Already have the MF-108m preordered – no reservations about how this pedal will fair in sound whatsoever.

Have yet to try out a reverb unit of any sort on the Taurus 3 but will be very soon. Eventide style!

That said, don’t be afraid to try new things. You never know…you may like it!

Interesting stuff! I like running the t3 through my mf-101 just to have quick access to some quackiness or to roll back the cutoff. Honestly so far i prefer the t3 without any effects. Its just so rich and full sounding it doesnt need much help. I still want to try a nice delay though :smiley:

One thing that is not so good is fuzz or overdrive though thats not really unexpected. I tried a bass muff and a fulltone bass drive just to see what it would sound like. Not great. At least part of the problem might be that you really need effects with a very wide frequency response or you end up losing a lot of the slammin lows and dog whistle highs, the latter being of far less concern.