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December 12, 2008 at 11:23 pm #89020julianModerator
people who spend 900 dollars on guitar pedals generally don’t take time to demo them on youtube
December 13, 2008 at 4:00 am #89021jgs61MemberI offered him $300 for it… haven’t heard back yet and probably wont. haha
April 28, 2009 at 1:06 pm #96117WatsonWoodMemberI checked out vintage Attack Delay pedals on the net over here and found a few, with prices ranging from 50 Euro up to 700 Euro. However the cheaper ones are generally out of commission. As is mine, anyway. I’ll have to save up some cash and get mine repaired. So far I have only found one guy in Germany who can repair vintage EHX, out here near Bremen, called Peter Schmidt, and one guy in Brittany, France. How about the UK? Any suggestions?
July 18, 2009 at 7:29 am #996143pdtParticipantA good friend of mine bought this strange pedal for 300 euros(aprox 400 dollars?) and gave it to me for a few days to play with it. I’m not really crazy about it, the only thing I like is the attack effect which is available in other cheaper and better sounding and hopefully smaller stompboxes. The decay effect sounded cheapy and most of the other knobs were unusable. Also, if using it in mono it sounded horrible. Still it’s pretty cool to have in hand since it’s so rare!
July 19, 2009 at 2:12 pm #99723WatsonWoodMemberYes, well, I must admit that as much as I liked the idea of owning such a cool pedal as it was when it was released I never really used it on a regular basis, in fact I hardly used it at all. However, it did have the virtue of eliminating the attack of the keys being struck on my electric vibes. That was interesting. As I said before, my AD is in bad nick and will have to wait a bit before being put back in working order.
July 19, 2009 at 2:37 pm #99728DiscoFreqMemberI have a Maestro Envelope Modifier in the mail, should be something similar, I’m very curious to try it
July 20, 2009 at 4:48 am #99754devnulljpParticipantQuote:I’m also somewhat prejudice towards boutique pedals. I really don’t like to buy them.Why on earth would you be prejudiced against something made by real people who love what they do instead of built by machines, or worse, stuff made in Chinese sweatshops?
So you get crappy QC, support unethical business practices, and funnel cash into countries known for human rights abuses, but hey you get something that kinda sounds like what you want and it only costs you $50 right?
Weird.July 20, 2009 at 12:41 pm #99759electro-melxModeratorQuote:instead of built by machines, or worse, stuff made in Chinese sweatshops?
So you get crappy QC, support unethical business practices, and funnel cash into countries known for human rights abuses, but hey you get something that kinda sounds like what you want and it only costs you $50 right?It’s easy to use emotive language like ‘Chinese sweatshops’ and ‘Unethical business practices’ ‘crappy QC’ but is this fact? I’ve seen no evidence that any of the large musical or electronics companies operate in this way.
I’ll say no more on the subject but it seems a bit of a cheap shot to me.
“funnel cash into countries known for human rights abuses”
This is the latest UN Human Rights Council’s report on America’s human rights record….it isn’t so rosey.
July 20, 2009 at 4:31 pm #99763devnulljpParticipantQuote:It’s easy to use emotive language like ‘Chinese sweatshops’ and ‘Unethical business practices’ ‘crappy QC’ but is this fact? I’ve seen no evidence that any of the large musical or electronics companies operate in this way.I’ll say no more on the subject but it seems a bit of a cheap shot to me.
“funnel cash into countries known for human rights abuses”
This is the latest UN Human Rights Council’s report on America’s human rights record….it isn’t so rosey.
If you want to say no more, that’s fine by me but if you want we can get into this.
QC is an easy one that’s pretty clear of the emotional aspect. Take a Danelectro TO and a Timmy (Danelectro ripped off Paul Cochrane’s circuit, oops unethical business practices?) or a Danelectro fuzz and a Frantone peach fuzz (oops, same deal as before) and compare the quality. Same?Also sounds like you’re making an assumption I’m American and/or that I’m saying America is somehow above and beyond reproach — neither is true.
July 20, 2009 at 11:38 pm #99781WatsonWoodMemberDanelectro appears to belong now to the Evets Corporation based in Camarillo, CA. Similar to Epiphone, Vintage, Fender and Indie, they manufacture goods in Korea or China. All these companies/brands are registered in the USA or the UK so here we are in the global market business.
Quality control and lutherie in Korea have been excellent for many years, and Chinese Epiphone Epiphones, as in “made in the Gibson/Epiphone factory in Qingdao, China”, have become pretty good.
And here is a link to a new Danelectro pedal in a, yes, metal housing, at least that’s what their website says.
http://www.coolcattone.com/distortion2.html
I like all boutique and mass-produced pedals as long as they are made by EHX.
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