Retrospec Squeeze Box

[sonicvi]

Anybody know what these are typically selling for these days?

 

[SpankyPants]

This was all I could find. http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47605

And that was a long time ago. Sorry.

 

[SpankyPants]

Ouch... found this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7397118390&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1

This looks like a good alternative:
http://www.slidingdelta.com/retrospec/squeeze.html

 

[sonicvi]

That has got to be a fluke. They couldn't possibly go for that consistently. I guess they're a little too rare to have a typical price. There's one on ebay starting at $650 with no bids. I found one in a local shop and was wondering what they were worth now.

 

[SpankyPants]

Possibly. I was just showing ya what I found. ;-D

How much is that one in the local shop?

 

[sonicvi]

Possibly. I was just showing ya what I found. ;-D

How much is that one in the local shop?

I know, and thanks. The shop is asking $450. So if that's around what they normally sell for I won't bother but if they're really worth over a grand then I'd definitely pick it up.

 

[bongomania]

There was a TB'er who was trying for a time to sell his in the classifieds for $1500, with no success:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=272858&highlight=retrospec
But I'm pretty sure he managed to get that much for it on Ebay after listing it a couple of times.

If I actually could get one for under $500, I would. I'm going to be calling that "slidingdelta" place to see if the deal is for real. Or maybe there are some different versions out there? A valuable one and a not-so-valuable one?

 

[Iridescentone]

Why is no one cloning them yet?

 

[bongomania]

Lots of people and companies have made tube compressors in a pedal shape, but very few have done it successfully IMO. The main man at Godlyke told me in an email that Guyatone discontinued their tube comp pedal because they decided they were not able to make it good enough within an acceptable price point. And EHX's Black Finger is so inconsistent, with some units being decent and other units being garbage, that I think EHX also has severe problems with the quality-to-cost ratio. CAE came up with a very good design, but the product was so expensive that nobody bought it, so it got discontinued. Whatever Retrospec "did right" is clearly neither easy nor inexpensive to do. I'm betting that's why they stopped making them, too. And most people, at all levels of musician or studio, are not going to put a $1000+ tube device on the floor and step on it. They want their expensive tube compressors safely housed in a rack. Rackmount tube compressors sell very well.

 

[343 Salty Beans]

Hmmm...I should look into cloning that... and becoming all boo-teek like Keeley. Of course, I don't have a cool name, but...

 

[moosapotamus]

I've actually been looking for a little while and I think the schematic and even pictures of the inside are just as rare as the pedal itself.

~ Charlie