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I noticed in the seller's initial photo, from the type of knobs, and the silkscreening, that this was a relatively early Sola-Supa, but it was only as I pulled it out of the box, that it became evident that this Supa is finished in the puke-grey MK1.5 colour, rather than the standard blue-ish/grey finish
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I guess these were amongst the first Supas that were built after the 'Olivetti' enclosure was updated. I'm aware of two other 'mossy-rock' Supas that belong to (ex-)forumites - one MKI; the other MKII - and they all have that funky yellow sleeving on the cabling that appears to have been a rather limited thing. The two (presumably) youngest Supa MKI's also have a bonus 25uF power filter cap, which is absent from the 8(!) known surviving 'narrow knobs' Supa MKI's, but which was being used on the MKII's at the same time.
This one sounded a little questionable right off the bat, but it's settled in a bit more. It's perhaps a little 'overbiased'(?) compared with my earlier Supa MKI. There's some subtle 'chirping' audible on the tail-end of sustained notes/chords, which I've experienced before on the standard MKI when the attack is set too high. This can be dialled out pretty easily by simply backing off the filter knob a little. There's less gating with this unit, which makes it easier to play with single coils (although the lack of the sneaky input resistor may play a role in that), but there's perhaps a little less fuckedupness too. They're generally very similar-sounding though - both do the distinctive Supa MKI note-bloom and 'squawk'.
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