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I mean, 600euros is quite a lot extra. 😂 You’re right though, it would be more or less the same.

Seems like the Sisma (valve pre-amp, same power section) is the head that’s getting all the attention rather than the Coda, I couldn’t find any reviews or even other owners comments about the Coda anywhere in the world! As a stand-alone bass head the Sisma may well be the one to go for, but I don’t really see the point of pre-amps going into pre-amps, I was getting annoyed that the TH700 I had was colouring the Capo sound. So the Coda was a bit of a punt but on the quality of the Capo I thought a safe enough one.

I played my first gig with the JF Coda head the other day, first impressions are very good. Been using the Capo for almost a year now, straight into the desk and using in-ears 90% of the time, so I wanted something for the odd gig where I actually use backline that was just the Capo sound but amplified. The Coda is interesting being as it’s really just a power amp, no controls to tweak other than input and output volume. Class G instead of class D; might be placebo effect but felt like it had more of the traditional heft that I’ve always found lacking with the class D amps I’ve used. Early days but really liking it so far.

Yeah I get that, I’ve always lived within half an hour of a decent sized city so it was the norm to be able to pop in and pick up some strings, try a few things etc, if you’re more in the sticks then online is great.

I’m not sure the decimation of high street instrument retail could be classed as us never having had it better, having a local shop stacked with bass gear was actually a pretty good thing.

I think they’re just white without visible pole pieces.

I’ve been gigging a 5-string Ida Nielsen (black/gold one) for the last 4 years and it’s an awesome bass, replaced an American Elite Jazz which it played and sounded better than. I also own a shell pink TT, but this new Ida just doesn’t hang together for me. Even the newer black ones aren’t as nice since they ran out of the original gold fabric for the pickguards.

I’m just setting off down this path, been running a Jad Freer Capo (pre amp pedal) for almost a year, love the thing and 90% of the time going straight to desk/PA and working on in-ears. For smaller gigs where amp is needed the pedalboard is going into an Aguilar Tonehammer 700 and SL410 cab, which is fine but I really just want the sound of the Capo amplified, not further colouring from the TH. So I’ve recently ordered the Coda head that JF make specifically for use with the Capo (or any other pre-amp), it’s just a 700w power amp which in itself is quite unusual, and it’s also a class G amp rather than D, which I’m really curious about. Taking a punt being as I can’t find a single review or user anywhere online but the Capo is amazing so I trust their quality, counting down the weeks till it arrives…

I’m playing Sandbergs, 4 and 5 strings, flats and rounds. All sorts of genres, 70s disco, 80s and 90s pop/rock, modern r&b/pop. I don’t use drive very much like some of the other guys but just as a set and forget mojo machine with some nice saturation it works great for everything.

Yeah, as an owner I’m still reading, I just haven’t got much to say other than I plugged it in, found a setting I liked and just left it at that. 😅

Yeah I checked too, I don’t think my OCD could live with that. 😅

Might be an optical illusion but to me the pin stripes look wider at the pickguard than they do near the strap buttons, now I’ve seen it I can’t un-see it!

We should all have had them delivered to that address, I’ve got a spare suitcase you could have borrowed. 😁

No worries on the DI front, it sounds awesome. Looking at getting a flight case for my board and I’ve also realised it’s taller than my other pedals, it’s such a dinky footprint I guess they had to squeeze it all in there somehow!

Motown clean no problem, clean with some hair no problem, distortion definitely but I dunno if I’d say full whack, but I don’t need that so not looked for it, the other fellas might have pushed more in that direction.

Heh, good to see you both succumbed! 😁 I’ve now had a couple of rehearsals with mine and I still can’t say enough good things about it. You’re completely right that its versatility is absolutely as claimed, but I think what impresses me most is every sound I get out of it is usable. Every time I think I’ve got a favourite setting I try something else and it’s just as good.

The light up logo is so cool, must add about 30% extra tone by itself. 😀

Pedaltrain Nano would work perfectly, can fit the Cioks underneath.

It will be in the ballpark but obviously the configurator shows price in Euros rather than GBP and there is also some dealer discretion to the price.

I much prefer the newer shapes, to me they strike the perfect balance of looking like a traditional J/P but with enough of their own vibe to be more interesting than just a straight copy.

Excellent, I have a HX Stomp and there’s no doubt as a one stop shop Helix are pretty great, I’m sure it will serve you well.

I’ve had the Jad Freer Capo for about a month now and it’s superb, couldn’t recommend it enough. Not cheap but less than half the price of a Noble!

It still isn’t going to sound exactly like a P bass because the P pickup is reversed and Sandberg use 500K pots rather than 250K like Fender. I have a passive VS4 (pickup normal way round) and with flats on it sounds pretty close to a P to me, with a vintage sounding pickup and wiring I’d think it would be more or less identical.

I’ve not played an Electra but seems likely they would compare well to other basses in their price range. They’re still put together in Germany, just made in Korea. Yeah, passive Sandbergs are definitely rarer in general, I found the VS4 online and had to custom order the TT.

My VS and TT are both Californias that look like they’ve been kicked down the street. 😂And agreed, what you are getting at a given price-point with Sandberg is certainly higher quality than Fender. I’d say the passive VS is close to a traditional P.