Going Modal
I should be practicing right now.
[Please forgive me if this has been covered before--it wasn't terribly difficult, not saying I'm the first to uncover this.]
Was just curious this morning, trying to map out a 2023 model's MODCAT off of Reverb pictures (no, I didn't buy it... yet?) and figured out how to parse out the characters into the older MODCAT format using the ol' MODCAT decoder.
Brief history lesson--the "older" MODCAT format was like this:
5MM2F-HVIB2_CC_NS-SK
While the newer ones kind of look like this, sort of broken into 2 lines on the sticker:
5MM2FNHVIB2_S-SK
/CC /N
Well, if you just rearrange the second one, from this...
5MM2FNHVIB2_S-SK
/CC /N
...into this:
5MM2F-HVIB2_CC_NS-SK
It will return the correct specifications. You'll notice that I've switched a couple of the " / " symbols to " _ ". I don't think those are hugely consequential--they're just spacers. I've also replaced an "N" character with a " - " hyphen. That's because PRS used to classify top grades as 10-top and non-10-top. However, more recently they've dispensed of the 10-top label; but that needs to be rectified in the older MODCAT format. I don't specifically know what the newer "N" means other than "null"?
Anyway, hope this helps along the MODCAT discussions for those of you checking newer codes.
Was just curious this morning, trying to map out a 2023 model's MODCAT off of Reverb pictures (no, I didn't buy it... yet?) and figured out how to parse out the characters into the older MODCAT format using the ol' MODCAT decoder.
Brief history lesson--the "older" MODCAT format was like this:
5MM2F-HVIB2_CC_NS-SK
While the newer ones kind of look like this, sort of broken into 2 lines on the sticker:
5MM2FNHVIB2_S-SK
/CC /N
Well, if you just rearrange the second one, from this...
5MM2FNHVIB2_S-SK
/CC /N
...into this:
5MM2F-HVIB2_CC_NS-SK
It will return the correct specifications. You'll notice that I've switched a couple of the " / " symbols to " _ ". I don't think those are hugely consequential--they're just spacers. I've also replaced an "N" character with a " - " hyphen. That's because PRS used to classify top grades as 10-top and non-10-top. However, more recently they've dispensed of the 10-top label; but that needs to be rectified in the older MODCAT format. I don't specifically know what the newer "N" means other than "null"?
Anyway, hope this helps along the MODCAT discussions for those of you checking newer codes.
