Kev

This is sad, and very confusing, to read, especially from a Supporting Member. If we are missing something collectively here guys, please do say, as at present it just seems the consensus in this thread is that we should have allowed this one valuation thread, for reasons not current obvious to anyone on the team?

I'm not sure if there are miscommunications here, but the issue really is as simple as the rules of the forum do not allow threads requesting valuations for equipment outside of the subscribers members only sub-forum that has been linked to in this thread. The reason is people (not necessarily you!) have been known to use valuation threads as a way of getting gear sold without paying to be a supporting member. It isn't personal and shouldn't be viewed as such, you will only get formally warned if you repeatedly break the rules after its been pointed out to you. Best advice is to take advice from the mods/admin team and not members To view the forum in question, you need to be a Supporting Member, which is £20 per year. The £7 price is to post a single sales ad, which I do not believe makes you a supporting member.

I feel like its come down from the absolutely bonkers days of £10k basses appearing everywhere, which is about the time I left that group. Any much more than £6k seem to hang around for a long time at the moment, which gives me hope. I just wish Wal would change their strategy and get a team of builders in and start pumping more out, just to see the collectors panic. I really loved the sound of my MK2 (huge BSSM tone fan) and have never been satisfied by a "clean" tone since, but I hated everything else about the bass. V neck profile, distance between strings and body, thumb anchoring, all not me at all. Perhaps I'm just forever bitter for selling it for £3.5k....

Wouldn't surprise me if half of the enquiries this bass had was from Wal owners, keen to tell the shop keeper that they need to increase the price. From my days in the Wal group on Facebook, my word they don't like any notion of the sky high prices of the basses being threatened... A shame the bargain never happened, but congrats on the new bass Max!

Modern digital processing is more than capable of rendering a very decent drop tune, to a higher standard than anything analog? Though I'm not sure of your context.

Really interesting video. Little in it, but the older version somehow sounds more organic and natural?

Yup, it's not for you! Do I look at it from a quality of musicianship point of view? No. I listen to progressive metal in my spare time, so eccentric pop isn't my bag. It's the whole performance, staging and production that entertains me, and if you can criticise particularly the latter two, I don't know what to say! 😅 To do what they do live, it's really impressive, year after year.

Great show, production was outstanding, no idea why people hate on it so much. Loved Ireland, Norway was great and Croatia surely should have won. Switzerland was pretty bang average, no idea how they managed that. UK was DREADFUL and over-performed really thanks to the jury vote. The staging was decent but really didn't mask how bland a track it was. And it's not all about people hating the UK, look at 2 years ago, if Putin hadn't have united the world behind Ukraine, we would have comfortably won it.

Option paralysis is a rubbish waste of time, but the idea that i'd buy something else that may be inferior just so I don't have the option to potentially sound better seems a bit silly?

I guess its cost. The boss unit is really quite cheap compared to modern day pedal prices.

Interested to see how the stem splitter performs!

Because they wouldn't be paid to do any more reviews for the company if they expressed any

I'm sure it's gotta be 99% emperor's new clothes for those who are upgrading. I'd definitely go for a V2 if I was in the market for a comp, but never if I already had a V1. The metering is nice, but also in an odd way an admission you didn't really know how to set it before? 😅

Makes me chuckle a little how many Compact Bass pedals have popped up since this was announced, prices not much less than new. GAS is a terrible thing!

But this does seem quite large, and can't imagine the sounds quite stock up against separate pedals, which was always the case with the previous generations of this type of multi. I guess if you use everything its better than individual pedals, but otherwise I'm still struggling to really understand why this would be an option over separate pedals or a more flexible multi. Anyway, given I'm clearly not the target market, even if I may have been 20 years ago, I'll shut up now! 😂 It's good to see Boss are catering for a demographic others aren't.

Out of interest, for those who are drawn to this unit, have you ever spent any time with the likes of a Helix/GT1000/Quad Cortex etc, or does the screen UI/complexity just put you off? Personally, and I know we're talking drastically different price points, but I would find my Quad Cortex far easier to use than this, but yet ease of use seems to be a plus point for this unit?

Don't frequent these parts too much now I'm a multi effects guy, but thought I'd share the current board! All mounted to a Rockboard Tres 3.1, patched through a Mod 3 module. A little jump patch lead let's me quickly switch from wireless to wired as needed. The Chunk OS is the new toy (it's PHENOMENAL!!) and is patched into a QC effects loop, where it works brilliantly. Also, because input gain of the loop can be set per scene on the QC, it effectively means the input gain of the OS is programmable, which is really useful when OS patches can be so sensitive to input dB.

Exactly this. The equivalent non-Joe dart model is £399 from any UK music store at the moment, and this is heavily stripped down, so this is far from cheap. It's actually a pretty significant mark up % wise, but people are buying into it because it loosely resembles the proper one. Smart move from EB!

I'm so out of touch with prices these days. Why on earth would anyone pay this kind of money for a production line bass?

Hmm. It's pretty expensive compared to the standard sub models, proportionately at least!

So I've just become a member of the rather dwindling Octavius Squeezer club! Have to say, I'm absolutely loving the sounds I'm getting so far. The UI isn't as bad as I thought, just getting my head around the signal chain at the mo. Does anyone still use it, and does anyone have any settings to share? I've got a spreadsheet going to keep track of setting changes (thanks to TB for that) but would love to try some more, will help me learn it all! OSX files would be cool too, once I've found an SD card that works!