Any guitar players in here? ... that use pedals?

[joecool85]

If you do, here is a question for you.

Would you buy home-made (good quality) pedals?

For instance, a clone of the MXR phase 45?

I'm thinking about building some and don't know if anyone would actually buy them.

[CanadaRAM]

If you do, here is a question for you.

Would you buy home-made (good quality) pedals?

For instance, a clone of the MXR phase 45?

I'm thinking about building some and don't know if anyone would actually buy them.

No I wouldn't.

However I might (and some people definitely do) pay a premium for hand-crafted boutique pedals.

What's the difference between home-made and boutique, hand-crafted limited edition classic reproduction pedals?

Mostly
1) marketing, and
2) a reasonably attractive case -- silkscreened, not transfer labelled. Otherwise, they can be identical inside.

[Crikey]

What an interesting idea.

I think a lot of how music products get sold is, someone finds out that Hendrix/Van Halen/whoever played an MXR Phase 90, and they buy it because they like the sound the big name player got with it. So in that way, the effects that are sold to big name players have a huge advantage in the market. It would be tough to counter that with your own products, unless you can get a bunch of big names to play them onstage and mention them in guitar magazine interviews.

Those who want an effect but don't care much about brand may be tempted by the lines of under-$20 pedals coming out of China nowadays.

I had never heard that MXR made a Phase 45 before they made the Phase 90.

I admit I'm a non-tone-purist enough that my few remaining stomp boxes ended up in the closet after I got my modeling amp. Kinda nice to just plug straight into the amp.


Crikey

[joecool85]

Interesting. I guess by home-made I meant more of boutique. They will look totally professional. There is a guy I know making Great Cheddar Distortions and selling them for $125 a piece. I was thinking of doing up some Phase 45s and selling them for maybe 75-80 a piece. Maybe not. Who knows?

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says...I ahd a whole bunch of "vintage" pedals and just sold them all on eBay last year in favour of an "all-in-one" solution. I struggled with the decision between the Boss GT-8 and the Line6 Pod Live, finally deciding on the GT-8 (came down to immediate availability). I am not the big on this "authentic" vintage sound - I just want *good* sound and bothe the Pod and Gt-8 offered me this with the addition of programmability...and lots less clutter too....oh yeah!