JMI mkII tonebender arrived

[sixty2strat]

Saw a GC in Tejas had a JMI MKII for sale...so after reading and heming n hawing called them and bought it. The adress was screwed up as was my name so had to go to UPS to get it and almost ran out of gas down in the swamps by the philly airport. Very cool GC packed it well and had the box and COA # 230 of 250 warranty and bag. it was mint so they get good marks on that. So had the ting 2 hours so it only my inital impression. These seem to lauded or bashed so I was a bit leary. Well the construction is neat and well done, the wires look pretty look in some casses to be of a pretty heavy gauge. The base plate is very heavy and rather thick. The trannies are 3 OC75....did not look to see if mullard or some other phillips product. So far so good. The JMI run into a marshall at resonable volume was fat rich and thick. unlike a lot of fuzzs they are too dark like a muff or too shrill. The one is really well balenced. it was touch sensitive, responded to the volume knob adjustment quite well.Very organic, my guitar still sounds like my guitar, not a mass of compressed fuzz. How well it will clean up depends on the amp volume the level and attck settings. not too hissy with the JMP on 8 and the LP volume at the point were it is clean. I seems to add a clean round fat warmth to the guitar ala' Truth
crank to volume and you get a Zep one solo or Hi Ho silver lining solo.

I have had a early soul bender#54 that was too muddy, a stone bender and a recent soul bender so have so experiences with TB clones. The Fulltone seems to get the yardbirds tones a bit more since the tone knob cranked gives it more edge, so it not going anwhere. The JMI get the 68-70 page beck tones....even if they used MKI MKIII the tone is in the ball park or dead on. Saw a lot of crtiques of this fuzz, but it's really DAMM good. shame they only made 250. Tomorrow comes the finall test on 11 and then a gig

 

[E Baxter Put]

I think people were more upset with Music Ground for being shady dealers than they were with the actual pedal. I think the JMI stuff sounds great and is built very well.

I really want one of their rangemasters.

 

[sixty2strat]

I love my beano boost but the rangemaster in a pedal looks cool. the copy of the real deal look hard to use live.

 

[analogmike]

I think people were more upset with Music Ground for being shady dealers than they were with the actual pedal. I think the JMI stuff sounds great and is built very well.

Buying them from someone in the USA seems to be the way to go. (I don't sell them...)

 

[sixty2strat]

are they still making them? I assumed mine was used till I got it and it looks NOS. mine was 230 out of 250 limited edition.....then again I grew up by the franklin mint so limited my ass....lol

 

[cajone5]

I think they're still selling off their limited editions. I have a JMI MKII but I did get mine used and apparently it had leaky transistors initially (the OC75's), so the previous owner sent it to Skinpimp for a tune up and he returned it with Mullard OC84's. I don't know what it used to sound like but now it sounds INCREDIBLE. On par with my D*A*M MKII Pro. I would highly recommend checking this one out if you can.