iamtheelvy

I’m not holding my breath... That said, I am around and would check it out if they told me how to...

Well, it’s two days to go to the “virtual” show taking place on Music Radar (apparently). No info on what or or how it’s happening...

Bought my first loom from John this week. Arrived today and was installed in a matter of minutes. Nice clear instructions (matched up to the specific pickups I’ve got installed) and tool provided to pull it all together. Seems to work a treat!

I think the 5 is just the next number in the sequence (apart from “unlucky” no.4). The maths is just a coincidence...

*1 lower...

Should be end of the month. Andertons said around the 28th I think.

Could be. Well, pedals are out at the end of the month. I’ve an ‘82 OC-2 ready and waiting for a side-by-side comparison. Winner stays on the board...

Boss are out in force on social media tonight pushing the point the the vintage mode “is” the OC-2 tone... Guess we’ll wait and see...

Preordered this lunchtime! If this can pull of the OC-2 tone with better tracking then happy days. I’m expecting better from this than the OC-3’s emulation, but still concerned that it’s digital rather than all analogue. I’d still snatch up an OC-2w in a heartbeat...

I'm intrigued by the OC-5, but there's a whole lot of features I don't really want/need. A more faithful reproduction of the OC-2 would have been nice (may go for the MXR VBO)...

Ok, Cool. Sounds good to me. http://www.east-uk.com/pdf/jtone01.pdf The east diagram has a Ground connection and a Cold/Ground connection.

http://www.east-uk.com/pdf/jtone01.pdf The east diagram has a Ground connection and a Cold/Ground connection.

Yeah, that’s the diagram that came with the pickups. Fine for a usual wiring setup, but doesn’t quite match the East wiring diagram for the J-Tone...

Decided to give the J-Tone a go (too many bells and whistles on the J-Retro for me...). Just a question about wiring - I’m pairing up with some Aguilar 4J-HC pickups which have 3 wires each - white, grey and black, and yellow, grey and black. Am I right in assuming white/yellow is the hot signal, grey the cold and black needs to go to ground?

Have been pondering one of these for my old Jazz. Been delayed as they’re not in stock anywhere. In the meantime, was looking at the J-Retro too... Strikes me that the J-Retro preamp is far more flexible, but the passive mode is pretty much just a backup, whereas the J-Tone is very usable in both modes. I would like the extra options, but don’t really want to compromise my ability to play in passive... Has anyone used both circuits to compare?

Been looking forward to seeing what this was going to be. Looks good, but got to say, I’d prefer the previous larger housing (big feet and clumsy switching)... Guess I’ll have to keep an eye on the second-hand market...

Looks like Dave Swift may be a holder of insider information...

Nice.

There are rehearsal rooms in Horley? Damn, things have changed since I lived there. We had to make do with a barn...

Just an obsession. Haven’t found an octave to rival it yet, so worth having a few backups for an old pedal...

They’re in date order, right to left: Japanese - April ‘82 Japanese - March ‘83 Japanese - October ‘83 Japanese - Unknown Date (later 80’s following the name change) Taiwanese - Unknown Date Taiwanese OC-3 - January 2013 The OC-3 has more volume, I’ll give it that, but just sounds so digital compared to the others (not surprising, really...).

Just did a bit of a comparison of my Boss octaves. I’d say there’s more difference when playing them live (on a loop here to keep it consistent), but the older Japanese models are pretty much the same, slight change in the tone for the Taiwanese, and the less said about the OC-3 the better...