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  1. So, in absence of enough creative flair to do this justice, I'm selling this amazing unit.

     

    This pedal is a ridiculous bitcrusher.  It's also a filthy fuzz.  It's one of the synthiest filters i've heard. It's a sequencer.  It's a pitch shifter. It's an awful lot of things, better to watch this video than listen to me attempting to describe it!

     

     

    Great condition, very shiny units so there are naturally surface swirls and scratches under the light, but yeah.  Foot pedals :D Box/psu included.

     

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    £250 please.

     

    Cash is king, trades considered.

     

    Cheers!

     

     

     

     

     

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  2. All very exciting stuff!  I haven't tried a FI since the initial launch version/firmware, couldn't get on with the tracking and found it quite difficult to use, I wonder if this is the time to revisit...

     

    I have to ask though, when the opportunity to put the device in a fresh new smaller case arose with the new hardware, whyyyyyy wasn't it taken???

     

    *Edit, I read a few posts up :) Still such a shame though, that and the lack of a USB option.

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  3. 17 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

    This has always boggled my mind: I don't understand the benefit of, for example, that weird extended low B that some Fodera's have.

     

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    People will also claim a reversed headstock alters the tone of a guitar or bass - but I just don't understand. Just to make things clear: I don't claim it's a hoax. I just don't understand :lol:

    I would love Fodora to explain their rationale behind that design. Utter horror show, especially when you compare the break angle of the top and bottom 3.

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  4. At risk of sounding silly, surely tension goes beyond the speaking length of the string?  If you have a 37" B that has a tuning peg really close to the nut and a string anchor really close to the saddle, and you have a 34" B that has a tuning peg on the far end of the headstock and a saddle a good distance from the ball end, does the 37" truly have anything like 3 inches/equivalent lbs more tension?  I don't see how it can, which again will play a part.  My headless Leduc 34" scale has a really notably articulate B, yet it anchors directly behind the nut and the break angle is close to ball end, so its as short a string as you can get on a 34" bass really, therefore lowest tension, but still sounds and plays better than most?

  5. If there's one thing I've learnt by owning dozens and dozens of basses over the years, its that scale length is only a very small part of what makes a good B.

     

    Far, far more influential for me is the neck relief, action and string gauge, and there is definitely something going on with neck/bass construction too that I don't pretend to understand.  Two B strings on two 34" scale basses can sound and feel entirely different, even with identical setups.  I remember a few years ago I had a 34" Thumb bass that, no matter what I did, had the deadest, dullest B string imaginable, whilst simultaneously owning a 34" Alpher Mako bass that had the clearest, tightest B I could want.   Same strings (even swapping the strings on both), same setup, unplugged so no pickup/preamp involvement, one sounded great and one sounded unusable.  Go figure...

     

     

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  6. The Warwick finish dulls and darkens with use, if they're played hard enough! Sweat stains the finish etc, it's all part of the labour of love that comes with owning a natural oil Warwick.  I found the whole wire wool and wax process rather therapeutic!

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  7. Depends how brave you are.

     

    With my old Thumb basses, I would once a year scrub the whole body down with extra fine wire wool to get all the muck and grime off, then reapply the warwick wax all over and leave overnight, before buffing up in the morning to make it look brand new again.

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  8. 53 minutes ago, fleabag said:

    I should add that the tone from the "  Bartolinis "  is wonderful combined with the Bart 3 band preamp.

     

    I say " .... "  because the bass  is Indonesian built, so the Mk 2 Barts may not be American.  Or maybe they ARE American but just built under licence because of cheaper labour, but which ever it is,  the tones available are brill.

    The MK2's are not built by Bartolini, they are built under license.  Lower output and quite a bit darker than most US made models.

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  9. 5 minutes ago, admiralchew said:

    Sorry, the reference to the Meatball was to show another pedal with good routing options. I’m not aware that any 3 Leaf pedals have any Meatball DNA.

     

    I’ve not played the original Meatball, only the FTelettronica version, but the latter at least has send and return.

    I'm pretty sure the whole Groove Regulator/Wonderlove/Chromatron series is based on the Meatball, but as said above, could be wrong! :) 

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  10. 2 hours ago, admiralchew said:

    Given that it’s effectively the deluxe version of the Proton, paying more for the Chromatron seems fair. Each person can decide whether it’s worth it for them to pay the retail price. This is basically moot for the moment though as I don’t think there are immediate plans to make more.

    I thought the Proton was a Mutron based circuit, rather than meatball?

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  11. 1 hour ago, admiralchew said:

    I’m not sure to be honest. I seem to recall the Chromatron page stating it was an original design but the page is currently not on the site. The Doom 2 statement was based on not hearing anyone say it’s like anything else and I’ve not come across anything that similar. I would like to try a PWNZOR though, I know that much!

    I had a PWNZOR, it was okay.  Noisy and pretty coloured but I didn't dislike it off memory, didn't keep it too long though.

     

    2 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

    It is 3 Leaf Audio. It’s exactly as announced on the web site along with links to those auctions.

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  12. 1 hour ago, admiralchew said:

    I think the Chromatron and PWNZOR were original circuits weren’t they? I’m not sure if the Doom 2 is based on anything either. I’m not far enough into circuit design to know where the line is between different circuits though.

    I think the Chomatron was just a development of the meatball clone series he did, Groove Regulator, Wonderlove etc?  Might not be though.

     

    No idea about the compressor, but you may well be right with the Doom/2 being an original design?

  13. 42 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

     Whilst I don't expect him to give them away, I find this a bizarre move motivated purely for profit.

     

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    Surely that's a scalper and can't actually be 3Leaf listing their own pedals for auction?

     

    Zero feedback makes me think it must be, no?  Also, surely if it was 3Leaf themselves, they'd have gone for the first 10 serial numbers or similar, rather than random ones?

  14. I think when the Combustion range was around the £1k mark at the start, that was fair.  At the price they are now...nah, that's a lot of money for a mass produced bass built in the same factory in the far east as a lot of others.  

     

    But, on that logic, that's rules out a hell of a lot of the market at the moment.  Prices have just gone insane.  It doesn't seem long ago people used to laugh at the idea of Warwick basses being £3k new, and now £3k only just buys you a Stingray 🙃

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