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Just bought an MXR octave from Martin. Was am absolute gent throughout, even did a little demo, to sooth my fears that it may be noisy, it isn't!!! I'm very pleased, mega fast delivery and grwat comms. Thanks Martin 😁

So as it was my birthday last week, I'd decided to act upon my latest Gas attack, which was a 5 string Stingray (Thanks @AndyTravis 😂) I'd been offered back my old Stingray 5HH in Honeyburst, which I sold on about 5 years ago,when I hit hard times. The seller very kindly offered it back to me, and with the sale of a few pedals and part trading a lovely P bass, the deal was done. This is a 2006 Ray HH, which were at the time wired series (same as position 3 near the neck on a single pickup), but only for a couple of years. They changed the bridge and neck pickups to parallel in 2008, they also introduced the Sterling 5HH at the same time, which was wired in series. Its a different sound, a bit less in your face than a paralell wired ray, with a less extreme scoop and less highs. It Sounds great, the series wired back pickup has a smoother sound and not as aggressive and clicky, but still very much a stingray sound. The front is like a Gibson mudbucker,only with clarity and the two together have a very modern punchy scooped tone. I'm not as keen on the single coil options but on the two outer coils, it's almost like a Rickenbacker, they do work great with fuzz though 😁 The colour is Honey Burst which was discontinued, and a rosewood board,I think the Tort guard was an optional extra too. It's a lovely colour! Darker than the photo suggests, Like light caramel going into reddish brown. This is the second musicman I'd sold and was lucky enough to get back! I owned a maple boarded/parallel wired USA Sterling 4, however I'd decided that kind of sound isn't what I'm after these days. I remembered this HH had a smoother/ more versatile sound, so decided to get it back. Stingray 5s have such lovely neck profiles too.

I had a Doom for a while and I did enjoy it, however it's only useful in a octave/fuzz/filter combo (as it was designed to do) not a great sound on its own. The Doom 2 adds a muff style fuzz with a Filtered clean blend (which is similar the cog Grand Tarkin) for a cheaper and more Available effect try the Emma Okto Nojs! The fuzz section is very similar to the Doom in that it's Dynamic and has an Octave up with lots of ring mod ish harmonics when played past the 12th fret. It does have an Octave down square wave fuzz which makes it more synthy again. But dialling this out makes it similar to the Doom. It also has a fairly decent octaver with a filter to make it OC2 ish. Im a massive fan of 3 leaf and have a GR2 on my board, however I'm not prepared to pay the daft money as good as they are. If o coukd find a filter with a loop that with a as well as the GR2 is be moving it on (I did pay a lot for it mind).

That mini T47 is a very special thing! I'd always wanted to see if he could shrink a T70 onto the same enclosure he used for the original T47 with the mini knobs. I'd very much like that Mini T47, never mind the Octavbre mk3 😁 Gutted Tom's stopped building! Yiur boards are works of Art sir, I salute you xx

Im n complete agreenent with this! That 5XL s stunning and actually the only one out of all 11 that I like.

So yes it's a CR5FM they originally came with Aguilar OBP1 preamp IIRC.

So looking at this pic, it has solid maple wings and No walnut section? And by the date/EMG pre, makes it a Euro CR5FM- same as the natural one I had.

I think this has already been on this Thread, but here's my beauty! Euro Lx4 in Ultra Amber with an incredible flamed maple top. I got this a few months ago, thanks to the always awesome Andy Travis. Always been a huge fan of Spectors and used to have a Euro CR5FM in Natural with an East pre, which was also amazing.

That is seriously my perfect bass and colour! Please contact me, if you ever move it on 😍😍

Lol I couldn't see your previous pic! Totally differnt bass. I need an Emarald Green Euro 5 in my future.

Absolutely stunning! I'm so jealous 😁

@briansbrew legend! X

This?

Aww what! Missed that, many congratulations 😁 Would love to see more pics. A green Euro 5 has been high on my GAS list for a long time.

Ooh please more pics! And tell me that's for sale 😍😍