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I love that little patch bay! What exactly is it? Given me an idea,I have a small one on top,didn't occur to me,to put it there 😜 Beautiful wiring at the back

Pau Ferro! It's a very orangy (sometimes purple) wood,It won't really darken like rosewood.

I love my Cali76CB but this has really got me interested. It's got similar yet more features than the Cali. The seperate attack/release and a switch for the most useful Ratios. I really like the inclusion of the colour switch too,a nice touch. You can add other things to the sidechain too! Very handy. And let's not forget the metering,bet the Cali is sweating now 😂 Very much want to try one of these.

There were the original "Grey" label (which Doddy mentioned above) which comprised of the octabass/multi comp/unichorus. Which had jacks the opposite way round (those crazy Swedes) I'm not sure if the Bass IQ came out as a grey. There then came the black label, which added extra features like the mode switches and I think a slightly different enclosure, as well as standard in/out jacks. These were buffered bypass and gave a slight volume boost when engaged. Then came the "True bypass" black label pedals,with some minor under the hood tweaks and production moved to China. Then came the studio edition,which was basically a cosmetic makeover and some more tweaks under the hood (im always suspicious of "improvements" made inside. Usually means using cheaper to source components). This blue label is the first change they've made to the function of the pedals. Im sure our very own EBS freak, whom is the authority on these things,Will be able to point out a lot more than I 😁

Looking online they've only updated Multi comp/octabass/IQ Once again,I haven't tried these,so only speculating based on years of using EBS pedals. The multi comp now has its threshold on the front,which is brilliant,however you still have to adjust an internal trimpot to adjust the multi band mode thresholds. It would have been much more useful to have 2 x mini knobs for the treble/Bass thresholds. The front threshold is great for the normal/tube SIM modes. They have announced they've changed the photocell! I hope that doesn't change the sound too much,as this is a Classic comp. The IQ has had the biggest makeover, as it has the sensitivity on the front. My complaint about the original was you couldn't adjust the sensitivity on the fly. So certain basses wouldn't trigger the effect properly,causing nothing but a bassy Thwomp. They've kept the up/down modes and replaced the HI Q mode (pretty much a high range Band pass filter) with a more useful up setting with a range switch (like an old mutron) but unfortunately accessible via a trimpot. They've added 3 filter modes which wernt there before! The mighty low pass, a band pass (IMHO Useless with bass,unless it has a clean blend to add dry bass in) and a full range which I've no eperience of in other filters. All in all a very useful set of upgrades. There doesn't seem to be an updated Unichorus as yet,im curious to see what they'll do with that. Likely a clean blend as per the originals trimpot. Still a few other pedals to give a version 4 makeover 😁 I just now need to find a used Dphaser 😉

I have the Studio Edition Octabass, I've also owned the Black Label/BL True Bypass versions. Although i havent tried the new one, as you rightly say it appears the tone control replaces the 3 way EQ switch,maybe to give more subtle variation. I've absolutely no idea what or how that range switch works. Improving tracking on either high or low, I don't see how that would be useful,as the Octabass is one of the best tracking octaves I've used (and I've had a few). Does it deliberately make the high end rubbish when you switch low 😂🤣 I thought it may work like the poly mode on the old OC3 where you can have the octave on the high strings/frets and have the low strings unaffected and vice versa (That's useful). Not to take away from the new pedal as the new range looks brilliant and I've been an avid fan and user of EBS amps/effects since 2002 (got my first octabass in 2003) but they are subtle tweaks to the existing line,not a dramatic overhaul (If it isn't broken),I believe the pedals are a bit smaller too,which is good. I'd stick with what you have 😁

Oh yes! Crazy in love with that one 😁 Watching "A new Hope" now in honour of David Prowse 😥

I'm still watching for you selling your Star Wars Grand Tarkin 😉😁

So pedalboard version #$%^%$## My pedal train JNR was getting very cramped and the acquisition of some more pedals,led to an upgrade to a Classic 2. New signal chain Custom Pedal boards mini patch bay - got fed up with plugging leads into various points,so now input/output conveniently in one place. Into- Cali76 CB - I've tried most of them and love this for versatility while still being intuitive to use. It has fantastic natural tone,which just makes you sound better This then goes into the main input of a Boss LS2,so all channels are massaged by the Cali76. Ls2 Loop A - Synth Channel 3 leaf Wonderlove envelope Filter- I'm utilising the loop in this. Effects can be put after the Filter input stage,but before the Filter. This means the dynamics of the filter are preserved. In the Filter loop is the Cog T70 triple Octave - 3 channel octaves with its own loop. Two separated T65 octaves which ive set 1 for a clean smooth octave and another for a synthy octave up sound, utilising the filters. It has a third "sub" channel which has no clean just octave. The filters can get this fairly close to the OC2 sound. The loop on this enables "parallel" octave so any effects used have the octave clean underneath, in this loop I have Crowther Prunes n Custard- very very dynamic and synthy fuzz Malleko Scrutator - Bit crusher/sample rate reducer - this has a built in static low pass/Hi pass filter, which can be used with expression pedal for filter sweeps. Any control can be assigned to the expression creating very funky/electronic sounds Ls2 Loop B - Standalone effects EBS Octabass- fantastic tracking and very smooth/organic sounding octaves. A nice counterpart to the synthy T70 EHX Bass Big Muff- does what it says on the Tin MXR Bass Envelope Filter- I love this for bubbly finger funk. Does one thing very well. MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe - fantastic warm chorus/Flanger. I have it set to affect only the high end,so subtle but a lovely sound. I particularly love the Flanger setting. MXR EVH Phase 90- 2 x settings block and script. Block setting a bit grittier with more resonance (sounds great with the big muff) or script for smooth 70s tones. These two banks of effects can be run parallel via the LS2 for more tonal options. The LS2 main channel goes straight to 3 leaf Enabler - Pre amp/DI/headphone amp - primarily used was A very high quality headphone amp (with aux in). I used to have one before and used as a pre/DI on large tours/theatre pits and sound engineers always remarked on how good the DI was (not something that happens often with these guys😂) It's great for recording too, a very useful pedal. Then back to the Mini patch bay 😁 Before

Actually!! He's right 😁