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    Yes!
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    I'm putting this up for sale as I prefer a chunkier neck, and have quite a few basses already and this one just isn't getting played. It's done one recording and one gig since I got it in September. It's a cool bass with amazing build quality. The humbucker pickup sounds great, and if you pull up the tone knob when it's rolled down you get a big thick dub tone from it. It weighs about 3.8kg and balances perfectly on a strap. I've replaced the strap locks with Dunlops (will work with a regular strap or Dunlop strap locks), but will include the originals in the sale. The maggot screw that locks the A string bridge saddle into place (front to back) is stuck inside the saddle, however it locks in place with the string up to tension and doesn't affect playability or the intonation (you can buy them direct from Sandberg for 10E but they don't ship to the UK!). Comes with a gigbag and tools. Collection or meet up at a reasonable distance would be ideal as I don't have an appropriate box to hand, but a courier can be arranged at buyer's expense.
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    Best purchase: Iron Ether Xerography Deluxe. Easily competes with my Moog Low Pass Filter and takes up a quarter of the real estate. Worst: harder to answer as nothing was expressly bad, but the Origin DCX Bass wasn't quite what I thought it would be. I also bought a Sandberg Florence, which is very cool and well made, but I'm just not finding the opportunities to use it.
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    That's my friend Mikey playing sax, he's an amazing player and a lovely guy to boot. They've been going for like 10 years so its about time they were getting some love outside of Glasgow. And I replaced their bass player (Ollie) in his old band 😅 My fave new music this year is probably GoGo Penguin, great trio jazz that is listenable and innovative at the same time.
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    The JMJ is 40 or 41mm at the nut.
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    The Boss CE-2B uses the same BBD circuit and clock driver as the CE-2. They're discontinued but they're not ridiculously expensive, around £130 on Reverb.
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    Welp, I got another board. For the last year or so I've been using a Schmidt Array 350XDM as my main board, and though it looks very cool and everyone drools over it, its VERY heavy, and I'm hardly using the potential of the Atom, even with my electronically inspired jazz trio. So I'm testing out a pedal train Classic JR. The aim is a reasonable size and weight to allow for the optimum number of pedals to cover all bases, plus some wiggle room size-wise (considered a metro 24 but it wouldn't have allowed for any shuffling). I think this will cover any wedding gig, plus my original stuff, and there's room on the lower half to add a 4th pedal (provided it has top mount jacks), or swap out the C4 for something else as required.
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    To be a pedant, I'd argue the tracking is best on the OG big footprint Octabvre mki 😱
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    It the same kind of BS around model trains or whiskey or Star Wars memorabilia or cans of Monster or stamps or Warhammer 40k. People like collecting stuff and the market will decide what it's worth. I alluded to it in a previous post, but I kinda get him getting as much out of his customers as he can. The US sounds like a pretty hellish place to be anything other than very well off. He's hardly the only person making great pedals. Celebrity Pedals makes a Taylor Swift themed octave called the Taylor Shift. That's a winner in my book.
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    Sweet board! Love the old school Octabvre mini. It was probably the Jive or the Cali76 running at 18v. Anything else would've been burnt out!
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    Spencer just posted 7+ paragraphs addressing the auctions, scalpers and the pricing. He makes some fair points about the pedal market and the manufacturing industry.
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    Lovely!!!
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    Noice 👍 what size board is that?
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    Fair dos! I agree the MF has a great sound out the box, very set and forget. I'd never sell my Moog either!
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    This is a fantastic pedal!! Closest thing to a Moogerfooger IMHO. I don't get why you're selling it tbh 😂 GLWTS
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    Had my Serek MW2 5-string for about a year and a half and its become my main bass. I'll have my Wilcock Mullarkey by March, so ask me then 😂
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    Such an awesome looking bass!!!! GLWTS
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    On the one hand I respect the rule of 'charge the maximum people are willing to pay'; who would turn down £30k a month (before expenses, tax etc) to sit and make pedals all day (specially in a country with practically no social care system)? But on the other hand it creates a scarcity that in turn leads to scalpers, vastly inflated prices and lots of disappointed collectors. And I don't think it's entirely of his creation. There are plenty of other pedal builders who aren't so sought after, and like the Klon guy he's just capitalising on a demand for his wares. With stuff like this, you never know how long it's going to last. Ultimately, there are other pedals and builders out there doing about the same things he is, unless you really care about having that octave only switch (but how annoying is it really to turn it off yourself?). The OC-2 is great, though prices can be equally absurd. The MXR vintage and deluxe octave seem to be evolving into the new standard octavers, probably because they're good and, most importantly, AFFORDABLE. I have an Octabvre mki and mkiii, and they're my favourite octavers (they're rarely off my boards). I also own a Proton and a Chromatron. The completionist in me wants a Doom 2... and the Octabvre mini.... and another Octabvre mkiii... but do I really need any of them? At this point, what with already owning a bunch of them and how frustrating it is to get one, I've lost interest (but I doubt he'll notice me withdrawing my business). And I feel like this downward trend is happening across the second hand market: there are so many great builders out there making great pedals at affordable prices, and with more people struggling financially, there is a smaller and smaller market for 'Luxury Pedal Brands'. TL;DR buy 'em if you can; there are alternatives; I can't be bothered anymore.
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    This pedal is a beast.
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    Walrus Audio Julia v2 is great (has a dry/chorus/vibrato mix knob), but my fave is the 80s Boss CE-2B.
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    These are the best fuzzes! If I find £300 behind the couch I'll be havin' it!
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    I’ve had one for a couple of years and I wouldn’t say it’s a novelty bass, but it is a very particular sound. Because it doesn’t quite do the ‘classic’ tones I struggled to use it on wedding/covers gigs, but it is very very cool. It has probably my favourite back pickup sounds.
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    I've always wondered this. I guess they're going for the more 'Vintage' design from the 60s? More old is more better?? Having said that the Vintera II series has the contouring. Though, I've never felt like my JMJ needed contours.
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    I was referencing the colour scheme more than anything else. From one perspective £2k is a helluva lot for what you get (1 one pickup mustang, where you can get a 60s vibe squier for less than a quarter of the price if you don't care about the colour), from another you get some nice aesthetic combos (here's the next hour of your life https://vincent-bassguitars.de/en/produkt/pony-2/), and a lightweight handmade short scale. Some might feel it's worth it, others might not and the market will determine if Vincent keep going with it. Like I said above, I absolutely would if I had the money burning a hole in my pocket (in willow with a mint pickguard, cream pickup, katalox board), but as I don't I'm not going to go into debt for it. Ask me next week and it'll be a different bass altogether 😂 or a pedal. This might be what sways some people.
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    These just arrived at Bass Direct. Obviously inspired by the Mustang, this one by the JMJ in particular (I imagine). https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/vincent-pony-marrakesch/ £2k still feels like a lot for a Fender copy... but if I had it spare 😅
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