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Always find myself pausing episodes to read the memes. Incredibly curated, I can’t believe you put these out weekly.

I really love the fact that your sense of humour is universal and people from all over the world enjoy your channel. The world is better for having you in it. 😊 Thanks for putting yourself out there

That definitely one of the greatest synths ever made

The longer this show runs, the wider the smile in the beginning :)

I always enjoy videos featuring this huge knob - especially when he's talking about the massive filter cutoff control on the Bass Station II 😉 Lovely demos in this one!

Deep down the show's really about showing people that it's not the gear, but them who is bad.

You just can't go wrong with the Bass Station 2! It is a very versatile piece of kit with soooo much tricks up its sleeve. Combine that with the AFX-mode and this video for some inspiration: It is bonkers!! Great vid as always Florian!

Novation got a unique sound from this synth-not overly vintage sounding. I’m surprised they never expanded the basic synth into a 61 key version.

I found it commendable that Sascha from KMFDM has bascially done his last several tours using the bs2 as his main live rig.

After owning my AFX-Station for two years i´m still feeling like an apprentice. This synth with the latest OS can deliver a broad range of analogue magic like all these well known drifting classics but also clean modern edm style. It is full of pleasent surprises and definitly a keeper for me.

I love the Bass Station 2. I got it when it was brand new, I believe - around September 2013. I still have it, and for a reason. I think it sounds pretty good, and it's got some great features, with a nice interface. Great video as always!

After watching for about 2 years and a few months... bad gear has multiple meanings. There is the 80's term "thats one Bad motherboard" " it's so Bad its good" or "its so Bad your dad won't even watch it" personally I just love the amount of personality this content has. Its so cool that you dont bother showing your studio setup... we know by now you have an RE-201 space echo from the decade I born in etc. Its just good fun learning about stuff I didn't know or having a new perspective on gear I have had or knew someone that had. Personally love the bass station because even though its sound pallet is limited its array of features keep things interesting and positive and oh the one thing Moog wont squeeze into a synth thats always deep bass... a Sine wave

I agree, Novation should give you money for that jam

Novation is THE sound of the 90's. Long may it never end!

No other youtuber makes me lol so much in a single video - these are so fun to watch, thanks. Also - mega gnarly first groove!

Have a great weekend y'all, Have fun making sounds!

Finally, the sequel to the bass station episode!

Almost 100K subs. Superb. Can’t wait to view the celebration video. 🎉🎉🎉

Great video and have a great weekend, finally new power and fans and PC up and running so a bit closer to music again..

I have the highest expectations for your 100K episode!

I’ll never sell my BS2. Can’t wait for that firmware version 7.0 update 😅 Great episode and jams!

Absolutely great show of the Bass Station 2. Everything covered wonderfully in under 10 minutes. Keep up the great work brother 👍👍

Every time I want a new piece of gear I end up on this channel, you’ve reviewed so much instruments that this is almost a cheap synth encyclopedia. Congrats on how big you got and thank you for all the useful information! We beginners really appreciate it ❤

One of the best-value analog mono synths of our days. Classic for a reason!

Congrats on 100K subscribers!

Keep those sick beats coming! Your channel is my musical haven! 🎧❤

Something else that I would like to point out is that I love how you are so concise with the information, you explore all the features, try different types of tones and jams to give a very extensive showcase of a synth's abilities, but the examples are always short and not drawn out for too long, and all with a generous sprinkle of jokes and memes... I am hooked on your series, you are my favorite synth reviewer at the moment.

Wasn't expecting The Amazing Bulk to make an appearance lol

I've wanted a synth for so long and this is my first one. I honestly think there isn't anything in this price range that is so good considering how creative you can get with it.

I have always wanted a Bass Station 1 or 2! Your jams were superb as always.

Epic my friend , another synth well done !

One of my all time favorite synths. Sold it away years ago in a bad eurorack fever. After watching this video I kind of would like to have it back... Thanks mate!

Still waiting on a bad gear episode for the Behringer crave!

Great video as usual 😎👍 Nice to see the Mono Station getting some love. I'm glad I got mine at the discontinuance-sale price because it took too long to come to an agreement with mine on what sounds good !

Congrats on 100k!

Literally one of the greatest synths ever made. The opposite of bad gear. Literally the BEST gear

Im amazed at how the new genres you come up with ever episode seem to perfectly sum up the song you've written 😂

I've been waiting for this!

Absolute bangers in this week's episode!

An absolute gem of a synth. Cant praise and recommend it enough, options are insanely huge, sound is fantastic and can be easily used for any possible genre / mood.. Since I have my for almost a decade, I can mention limits of its build quality and downsides. After years - knobs simply started to fall apart and disintegrate, pitch and mod wheels cannot be calibrated anymore and cleaning doesnt help, also the keys have went full yellow. I can personally live with that and you know what, if it stops working fully, I just get new one, because yeah it is freaking awesome.. Great vid again, all the best! :)

My second ever proper synth. I loved it, only reason I sold it is because I had a friend who wanted to get into synths, and I gave him a screaming deal on it, I miss it sometimes.

Awesome dude! You just remind me that I've had mine now for about 8-9 years, and you are right remembering the keyboard shift modes is like trying to remember Street fighter 2 moves.

There's something very special in the last song's videoclip... Thank you!

I'm honestly quite surprised this made it on here! my second strike on my bad gear bingo card. Great episode as always, I had no idea what angle you were going to come at this one from, considering this is so universally liked, but you had some valid points. I was really late to the party & only got one about a year ago, it always struck me as 'unremarkable' until I got one, I was pleasantly surprised by how much better it sounded than i expected. It can be maybe a bit too harsh & resonant sometimes & definitely not as wild as some of the other (more expensive) pure analogue synths around these days. I still think it deserves to be regarded as a classic, there isn't much you can get for the same money that does quite as much as this thing. PS, leave the virus alone!! 😛

Definitely one of the best synth videos ever made! 🎉 🎶 🎹 🔊

It's my birthday weekend, I've finished work, I've had a burger & fries for my dinner, I've got a beer in my hand and now BadGear have dropped a new video. Cheers!

Almost 100k subs. That's awesome. I know it's a bit early, but congratulations.

Never really 'got' the sound of this, almost too vanilla. Bad though? Debatable! Awesome work Mr Pilz and HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!

Oh man the CG on that last jam was creepy as fuck in the best way

Been waiting for this!!!!

I appreciate you friend. It's literally in one of my shopping carts now

IMO the bs2 is one of the best budget monosynths wver made. Its just a really nice instrument and i cant think of much bad to say about it. The fact that it has patch memory is awesome too. For me the bs2 is 5/5 stars for its price!

I have 4 BassStation Racks Poly chained (making it 4 voice analog with each synth in the chain modifying the next, sounds fabulous!) that bought cheaply on the used market 10 to 15 years ago, and I still kind of want this to control all of them. Been waiting for them to flood the used market at lower prices, it is happening. Great job as always, thanks for all of your hard work triggering people!

Love the episode! I have a basssation 2 and I love it. Although what wasn't mentioned was the ultra cheap knobs which disintegrate, and the keys that yellow really quickly.

Great clip!!

Another one stamped on my Bad Gear Bingo Card! I love this synth with exception to the sharing of LFO and envelope controls; the number of times I've tweaked the wrong one because the switch was set the opposite way is infuriating

The afx mod made this synth absolutely funkdamental. Thanks again for a formidable video

Hats off for that EPIC cover image.

great video as always

This synth is just wonderful and full of wonders.

I saved my $ and got a Pro 3. HOWEVER…. This is an amazing synth and mainstay analog. Plastic Classic for sure! ❤ Great vid Flö🎉

Always had my heart on picking one of these up and you've done nothing to dissuade me. Goddamnit 😂

I love this channel for learning about relatively obscure synths that I didn't know about and their utility despite the public consensus. However, I really love this channel for the "blink and you'll miss it" memes he leaves throughout his videos. I'm stopping the video every 5 seconds and going back frame by frame to see the memes and it never fails to make me laugh! XD

Thumb nails? Fire. Memes? Elite. Jams? Super Human. Thank you for what you do for our community. You are a real legend.

First time you talk about a synth I have

as always a very nice video!

I just got one, thanks for showing it

Bang for buck this is one of the best DCO synths ever made...Great for gigging, light, affordable and fantastic to use for leads and basses...

Ok I'm only 3:30 mins in but that auto pilot gag is legendary.

Another awesome vid.

I have been waiting for this one for so loooooong! ;O)

Possibly my favorite synth.

BS2 always works for me in any setting! Totally holds its own in a rock band line-up as well😊

This is so much better than every other gear channel that just advertises gear.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur runden Abonnentenzahl!🍄 🍄🎉🎉

Novation is probably the best synth manufacturer in terms of support among other things. You can expect them to support your machine with updates way longer than most.

My first synth was a BSII and it's the only one I haven't sold since it's pretty versatile and has adult sized keys unlike other monosynths in the price range

Geilteil! Und wirklich appetitliche Tracks! 👍🏻

Another Friday, another gem! 👏👏👍

Such a fantastic synth.

Didn't know you kept the Mono Station! It'd be interesting to see a video where you talk about which pieces of gear you kept and why :)

awesome as always 🤗

I have one beef in particular with the Ultranova - its mod and pitchwheels have that soft rubberised coating which a decade on has turned into a sticky mess

I'm very much into the Bad Gear philosophy but "haters gonna hate", poor guys. Cheers to those who got the "...And justice for all" reference in the video, Bass Station 2 seems a nice instrument, I would consider it if it was keyboardless module

Happy Friday Florian!

I sold my first synth (monologue) for one a few years ago and never regretted it, the osc>filter FM and two-stage distortion make it powerful at processing external sounds

Novation is my favorite synthesizer company by a long shot. They don't release a hundred synths a year and, never to be undervalued, the best customer service and warranty replacement. The Peak is nearly flawless in design and sound.

Ha, it's Friday! Hoping that one day you'll feature the Alpha Juno and dominate the shit out of all the jams! I see you're close to 100k subs, well deserved!

another bad gear piece i own! i admit: it has a learning curve a bit harsh, but overcoming that it's one of the best sounding synth i've ever tried

The aphex twin mod is very tempting . I never considered this synth until I read about that feature . Novation K-station was my first GAS , but never fell into my budget back in the day . Great show . All the jams , and the intro were peanut butter to my ears 😊 nice job !

I found the user interface annoying - it looks like knob per function but it really isn't. Almost every knob is overloaded with different functions, and so are the buttons - which is why I lost patches trying to save them more times than I succeeded. All the functions assigned to the keyboard kept getting added to, in firmware updates, so you either have to have a manual with your, or print out a cheat sheet and tape it to the side of the synth. I never really could get a sound I liked out of the filter, despite all the different settings. When they finally added a key tracking amount it got a little bit better, but that's still only a choice of 8 settings... at least the last time I checked. I took the keyboard off and fitted a knobbly MIDI controller in the space. 16 more knobs and it started to make more sense, but I still didn't actually like it much. I still have it, in a box, but it's the one synth I regret spending money on.

It was an extremely good synth 6 or 7 years ago...it's an even better synth today with the updates. FFS it has aftertouch for less than $500, and Roland can't seem to add aftertouch unless you're in the $3k range on their keyboards (WTF?). Still a no-brainer purchase in my book. Und wie immer, gut gemacht!

This synth has always a place in my heart

That machine can make some decent sounds. Cheers for another great episode of Bad Gear.

A classic and rightfully so, immensely useful wether you have an arsenal of sought after synths or just a laptop, it always finds its place.

Aphex Twin needed to vanquish the Amazing Bulk. After all, he's got a tank, right? =D

I'm not 18 anymore man, I can't hit space fast enough to pause on all these memes. I rewind though, I read every single one. That's love bruv

I love my BS 2, great video!

Jason Newsted played Bass Station 2 ??? It is barely noticable...