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I've been watching it since yesterday! Collect only when most of the county is locked down. Don't know why he's bothering.

I was going to mention that! I met him in the early 90s and he told me about his semi fretless. I thought it was a really cool idea,As a lot of fretless playing tends to be higher/more melodic 😁

Yeah sounds odd! Anyone not familiar with the differences could be hoodwinked into paying 1024 money for a 424. The 424 are great basses and still well worth £300,im currently looking for a 425.

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 😁