Was about to compare these 2
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My Dirt Bender - Another Jounal
- Thread starter el murdoque
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I knew it!Was about to compare these 2
Seeing that combination of pedals, I instantly thought it was you!
Feel free to share your findings, I'm quite curious!
Do you still have the old Jive?
dropping a comment to follow for comparison. I love my old JIVE at 18v, maybe one day I can try the Bass version. If it ever arrives 
Since @schaechtele refuses to talk about the Jive,
I pointed my focus elsewhere.
You know, I did install a simple statistics tool on the Jounal website, which runs on Wordpress. One thing I saw there is that the review of the Fairfield Barbershop is one of the most read pages. I had a look at that and realized that I only copy-pasted my thoughts from this thread into the review and since this pedal was among the first pedals of the journey, I felt like time had fogged my memory enough so I did not dare adding anything.
The result is that this particular review reads like the ramblings of a halfwit / half madman.
I did order a Modele B today to revisit that particular pedal now, many moons later, when my tastes have matured and my comprehension of dirt pedals has somewhat grown.
I pointed my focus elsewhere.
You know, I did install a simple statistics tool on the Jounal website, which runs on Wordpress. One thing I saw there is that the review of the Fairfield Barbershop is one of the most read pages. I had a look at that and realized that I only copy-pasted my thoughts from this thread into the review and since this pedal was among the first pedals of the journey, I felt like time had fogged my memory enough so I did not dare adding anything.
The result is that this particular review reads like the ramblings of a halfwit / half madman.
I did order a Modele B today to revisit that particular pedal now, many moons later, when my tastes have matured and my comprehension of dirt pedals has somewhat grown.
Sorry for that
There‘s currently some ‚fuzz‘ about a minor flaw in the circuit. Once everything‘s sorted out, I‘m happy to talk about it.
After all the time we have been waiting this is not news any of us want to hear about the BassJive. Oh My!Sorry for that
There‘s currently some ‚fuzz‘ about a minor flaw in the circuit. Once everything‘s sorted out, I‘m happy to talk about it.
It was your "halfwit ramblings" that led to my purchase of that pedal, and a happy result achieved.
Same with the v01 odr.
It's your authenticity we like, not your grammar. "Ramble on!"
Ooops!Sorry for that
There‘s currently some ‚fuzz‘ about a minor flaw in the circuit. Once everything‘s sorted out, I‘m happy to talk about it.
Well, I know why I thought that I'll wait until Musik Produktiv has them in stock and order with them, should I consider getting another Jive.
Thank you for the flowers
Much appreciated! However, when I read through that report, I felt like I know so much more now than I did back then, and I really liked the Barbershop. I do want to give it another go, and I think I'll facilitate that in the Jounal by not editing the original post, but adding the second review under the first one.
I just cannot believe that their pedals can be so good that people will continue doing business with them. They are a joke. They may know how to make a pedal, but they have no clue how to run a business.
I can agree on both counts as JPTR FX has a lot to wish for in customer service. The Jive is an interesting and useful pedal for adding different textures of saturation, I'm hoping that the Bass Jive will offer the same but different function for bass textures. After this experience it is unlikely that I will have any interest in their products, but JPTR FX is far from the only company on my "no knock" list.
Yeah. They're lucky no-one else makes a decent reel-to-reel preamp simulator. Oh, wait ...
Why am I so excited, you ask? (well I'm gonna pretend you did!).
That's why:
This thing should arrive within the week!
That's why:
This thing should arrive within the week!
Yeah. They're lucky no-one else makes a decent reel-to-reel preamp simulator. Oh, wait ...
Who does? Strymon?
More on the Wessex:
You get a clearly audible effect of transistor saturation from the low gain settings, those that won't even qualify to be called a mild overdrive and it is great fun to play the pedal in those settings. I like to call those the magic tone sweeteners. Those pedals that give you something audible, yet hard to describe. You turn them on and you sound better. You turn them off and your tone looses a little life. You want to describe what it actually is that happened and you have to resort to the dreaded audiophile terms because normal vocabulary has been designed by people who did not anticipate the boutique pedal scene's need for describing tone. There is a velvet mantle draped over the shoulders of your tone. For those that are not well versed with medieval clothing habits, let me elaborate: There were those things you wrap yourself in for protection against the weather and harsh life itself because you lived some 500 years before all the comfy stuff was invented. Those things were called cloaks. A mantle is something quite similar to a cloak, but it is mainly useless. A lot less protective against the outside world and a lot more showy. A mantle was worn as a display of status. A cloak was worn because you froze your balls off. The Bogner Wessex in those low gain settings provides something that does not really do much in terms of saving you from the cold. It trails behind and makes you look flashy, though. Your notes impact the same, but just after that initial hit, there is that saturation that comes from the Wessex, and like a mantle, it's glorious. At least, when your tone is already so well off that it can travel by coach and only needs to walk very short distances through the cold of winter.
When you got everything in order, but you're looking for that spark of a little something, your little secret special sauce that makes it more fun to listen to yourself playing - you can totally get a Wessex, set it with the gain rather low and go ahead and impress your tone hunting friends. "Where does that come from?" they will ask, watery eyed, trying to fight back the envy. "Only the saturation of a true Rupert Neve Transformer can give you that, my friends" is your smug answer.
You get a clearly audible effect of transistor saturation from the low gain settings, those that won't even qualify to be called a mild overdrive and it is great fun to play the pedal in those settings. I like to call those the magic tone sweeteners. Those pedals that give you something audible, yet hard to describe. You turn them on and you sound better. You turn them off and your tone looses a little life. You want to describe what it actually is that happened and you have to resort to the dreaded audiophile terms because normal vocabulary has been designed by people who did not anticipate the boutique pedal scene's need for describing tone. There is a velvet mantle draped over the shoulders of your tone. For those that are not well versed with medieval clothing habits, let me elaborate: There were those things you wrap yourself in for protection against the weather and harsh life itself because you lived some 500 years before all the comfy stuff was invented. Those things were called cloaks. A mantle is something quite similar to a cloak, but it is mainly useless. A lot less protective against the outside world and a lot more showy. A mantle was worn as a display of status. A cloak was worn because you froze your balls off. The Bogner Wessex in those low gain settings provides something that does not really do much in terms of saving you from the cold. It trails behind and makes you look flashy, though. Your notes impact the same, but just after that initial hit, there is that saturation that comes from the Wessex, and like a mantle, it's glorious. At least, when your tone is already so well off that it can travel by coach and only needs to walk very short distances through the cold of winter.
When you got everything in order, but you're looking for that spark of a little something, your little secret special sauce that makes it more fun to listen to yourself playing - you can totally get a Wessex, set it with the gain rather low and go ahead and impress your tone hunting friends. "Where does that come from?" they will ask, watery eyed, trying to fight back the envy. "Only the saturation of a true Rupert Neve Transformer can give you that, my friends" is your smug answer.
