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Robert
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All this time I thought the "Unbelievable" mod would be to put the pedal in bypass and deny it's a buffer.
Play Skool Babies' First Soldering Iron?Absolutely.
I actually thought of another scenario (possibly hinted in the video, I haven't watched it) that changes my opinion of this entirely...
What if your kid built one of these for you for Christmas?
Maybe they don't have their "My First Hakko" yet....
KR Sound
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Absolutely.
I actually thought of another scenario (possibly hinted in the video, I haven't watched it) that changes my opinion of this entirely...
What if your kid built one of these for you for Christmas?
Maybe they don't have their "My First Hakko" yet....
finebyfine
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The building it with kids has changed my mind on it entirely as well but I do have to say if I was a 10 year old guitarist again a Klon is the last pedal I would want
jimilee
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When my daughter was about 7, she soldered an EM drive on Vero, with my supervision. I did the wiring. She still has it 9 years later. She doesn’t play, but she still has it. Good times.
Coda
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Josh Scott sees himself as an innovator. I imagine he often daydreams about throwing a big javelin through a giant 1980’s computer screen with Mike Fuller’s face on it. Thing is, his innovation is taking what is essentially an industry that creates tools for artists, and turning it to an industry that creates consumers of FOMO Media…
andare
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I agree with some of your thoughts here. Josh definitely profits from the pedal craze that he helps create but he also educates people about pedals and their lore, (mostly
giving credit to the creators of the circuits. His demos are always fitting. At the end of the day he sells pedals, telling people to focus on their playing and compositions would be counterproductive.By the same rationale, I think players who demo pedals are just as guilty, if not more. For example, I respect the heck out of Andy Martin - the guy has been churning out riff after riff for over a decade - but every time he demos another pedal he creates a desire in people to own it. His latest demo is a Sabbadius fuzz that is "inspired by the Diaz Square Face" and "promises vintage fuzz tones and SRV glassy cleanup" and all it is is an NPN Si/Ge Fuzz Face on a repurposed board from 2020 with a "wah wah trick" knob that is nothing other than the Clean trimmer used in the Sunface (IIRC a Mike Fuller mod, originally). Read the comments and people say "I need this on my board/I know what I'm buying next". To be fair to Sabbadius, he explained all this on his FB page but should he have said "it's just another Fuzz Face"?
At the end f the day, Josh, Andy and Sabbadius are doing their job, it's people who are nuts. Look at some of us, buying the latest PCB when it's released "to try it out". FOMO consumerism is all-pervasive and we're all guilty.
benny_profane
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I hear you. You’re saying it should be a ring mod?
Coda
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All true. None of that is innovation, though. It’s horizontal repositioning. There is nothing “improved” by what JHS does (whereas a “innovation,” as part of the “Innovator Lore/modern guilded age, would see an improvement of some sort). Instead, everything they do is a re-hash of something. Yes it’s an banana, but you can set it to taste like 3 other bananas…I agree with some of your thoughts here. Josh definitely profits from the pedal craze that he helps create but he also educates people about pedals and their lore, (mostly
By the same rationale, I think players who demo pedals are just as guilty, if not more. For example, I respect the heck out of Andy Martin - the guy has been churning out riff after riff for over a decade - but every time he demos another pedal he creates a desire in people to own it. His latest demo is a Sabbadius fuzz that is "inspired by the Diaz Square Face" and "promises vintage fuzz tones and SRV glassy cleanup" and all it is is an NPN Si/Ge Fuzz Face on a repurposed board from 2020 with a "wah wah trick" knob that is nothing other than the Clean trimmer used in the Sunface (IIRC a Mike Fuller mod, originally). Read the comments and people say "I need this on my board/I know what I'm buying next". To be fair to Sabbadius, he explained all this on his FB page but should he have said "it's just another Fuzz Face"?
At the end f the day, Josh, Andy and Sabbadius are doing their job, it's people who are nuts. Look at some of us, buying the latest PCB when it's released "to try it out". FOMO consumerism is all-pervasive and we're all guilty.
Ale_jellybelly
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Well he made me sell my Bad Monkey for 150€ so I'm grateful for what he did
jessenator
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it's all been said… I don't know who he's trolling with this thing, especially the goop, but with 3k sold out, man that's some maximization.
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