My Space Heather arrived today, but I'm out of town until Friday, so will test it this weekend!
Looking forward to hearing what you think!
@Ryan L & @Killing Floor I'm so close to ordering a JC Emerald and y'all ain't helping. I really don't have room and I have an odd emotional attachment to my current Marshall in a box solution.
I like the JC Emerald, and while a number of bassists (as you've seen) really enjoy it, I personally consider it more of a guitar thing. It hasn't sold anywhere near as well as DW and it covers the same general gain territory so I've come really close to getting rid of it, but I still regularly get at least one order for it every month, and with Black Eye and Wrecking Ball gone there really isn't anything in my lineup that would woo our 6-string brethren into Sushiland. So I'll continue to keep it around for now.
The JCE is quite possibly my favorite slightly overdriven rock sound I’ve ever had. It does the touch sensitive overdrive thing better than any pedal or amp I’ve owned in the past. Simply changing my right hand attack takes it from clean to overdrive—and it’s a very, very nice sounding overdrive.
It is a little shy on low end compared to the DWX and UAX, but I remedied that by following it with a Mesa 610 cab sim on my Helix. My Genzler Re/Q also worked great for it, but I don’t have room for that huge pedal with my current setup.
I was thinking about modifying JC Emerald to get more low end out of it, but I'm worried that it would start to just be a slightly different DW. So the circuit remains as-is per the original Marshall schematic.
Just don’t check your phone the day ordering opens.
That will be hard to do as I still haven't decided what day ordering will open
I'll probably start poking at the website tomorrow, though I'll likely need
@Sonicblaze's help to get everything set up since I'm limiting models (which I know how to do), limiting finishes (which I don't know how to do) and limiting tube options (which I don't know how to do).
I still need to go through and do a formal count on how many JJ 12AX7 I have on hand. I'm positive I have more than enough for May builds, but June will most likely have to be tubeless. The alternative of course being that my tube supplier started carrying Psvane tubes, which I love, at about double the price of JJ tubes, so I could look at offering those for a little more money if people needed tubes.
Still awaiting the return of my SS and a couple of back shelved designs from @Sushi Box FX anyhow.
I just checked tracking on the new (v3) Smoke Signal boards, they just cleared customs in Hong Kong. I'll probably see them this weekend, I will of course keep you posted.
As for the shelved designs (Bassdude, Tweed Blazer, Greenhouse, and More), I'm actually a lot further along in the May batch than I expected to be at this point, I'll see if I can take an hour or so and get some boxes milled out and get things boxed this weekend. This doesn't mean they'll be available for immediate order, but it's hard to really evaluate a design without having it boxed up. And I am planning on sending at least a couple of them around for some unbiased third parties to try out and get feedback. You know, the way I probably should have been doing this the whole time.
