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falco_femoralis said:
The way he approached the conversation was polite and informative, not at all threatening. However, he tried to come off as being transparent and humble, but there were obvious holes in his narrative, which I pointed out.

I asked him to elaborate on his thoughts about the design of the PPCB circuit, which he did, and was able to do without devolving into threats and anger. This is why I acquiesced and took down the listing, and came here for some background info. I'm thinking I'll change up my listing and use play on words and "references" etc
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sorry it happened, just comply with whatever reverb's rules are and ignore this guy. I'd strongly suggest taking Robert up on his offer.
 
falco_femoralis said:
The way he approached the conversation was polite and informative, not at all threatening. However, he tried to come off as being transparent and humble, but there were obvious holes in his narrative, which I pointed out.

I asked him to elaborate on his thoughts about the design of the PPCB circuit, which he did, and was able to do without devolving into threats and anger. This is why I acquiesced and took down the listing, and came here for some background info. I'm thinking I'll change up my listing and use play on words and "references" etc
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You must have missed “the big public forum attack of 2023” (or was it 2022?).
 
giovanni said:
You must have missed “the big public forum attack of 2023” (or was it 2022?).
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It was 2022, 2023 was the diode circle jerk.

You remember, we used the wrong reverse polarity protection diode which caused VCC to be 0.2V higher, throwing off the tone entirely.... forget that the pedal was advertised to run at 9 - 18V, that 0.2V (at whatever voltage you decide to use) ruined everything.

8.8V = OK
9V = TRASH
17.8V = OK
18V = TRASH
 
this guy must think we're just scratching asses and smelling fingers all day long ... how could you not anticipate that the 200 millivolt discrepancy would affect the toan? this is the high end buffer market god damn it. the stakes have never been higher.
if I had a trash can handy, I'd kick it and scream "fuckin' embarrassing!"
 
ICTRock said:
how could you not anticipate that the 200 millivolt discrepancy would affect the toan?
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My apologies, ADHD... that was the other guy, with the Bluesbreaker clone.

I don't think Jesse is a bad guy, he just tends to get worked up when things don't go the way he hoped. I understand the frustration, but lashing out at people and fabricating problems isn't the way.
 
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Guys I really can't get behind this "list it on reverb for $2" idea - we need to think about the hard work of the guys behind our pedals and this isn't cool at all.



















Like Robert spends ages degooping tube screamers, backward engineering things, getting all the resistors lined up perfectly on the PCB and then making the PCB available to us.
A really nice buffer that fits in a nice 125b enclosure, with top jacks - that's worth more than $2 surely?
 
LukeFRC said:
Guys I really can't get behind this "list it on reverb for $2" idea - we need to think about the hard work of the guys behind our pedals and this isn't cool at all.



















Like Robert spends ages degooping tube screamers, backward engineering things, getting all the resistors lined up perfectly on the PCB and then making the PCB available to us.
A really nice buffer that fits in a nice 125b enclosure, with top jacks - that's worth more than $2 surely?
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Sometimes it is about sending a message.
 
ICTRock said:
Sometimes it is about sending a message.
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I am willing to bet he would be more pissed off the higher price you charged, esp if they are well built and finished.


I made one for someone who wanted to try one, it was nice.
I do think that on bass at least the Frequency interchange sounded nicer as a buffer - it would be interesting to try that at a higher voltage and with 2M input impedance .
 
LukeFRC said:
I am willing to bet he would be more pissed off the higher price you charged, esp if they are well built and finished.


I made one for someone who wanted to try one, it was nice.
I do think that on bass at least the Frequency interchange sounded nicer as a buffer - it would be interesting to try that at a higher voltage and with 2M input impedance .
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It sounded okay, the freq boosters were nice, but I like a small pedal board and it doesn't earn its keep. If I had one buffer/clean boost pedal it's going to be either a compressor or simple boost. I recently built a BBC-1 and have been playing around with that, which has a more enjoyable sound than this one does.

He touts the buffer stage as being audiophile quality, and being the defining characteristic of the pedal, with the freq boosters added in for convenience. I don't have the frame of reference to make that judgement call, but I can tell you he wasn't happy about the "noisy" metal film resistors and "bargain" electrolytic caps I used... which was somewhat intentional. I used low ESR electrolytics instead of tantalums because I forgot I had the tants on hand. Also I'm not sure the normal ear can really tell the difference.

Which is the whole deal with the original pedal. Can a normal human ear really tell the difference, or is it just psycho semantic? In the buffer side I mean, not the EQ boosters. There is a law of diminishing returns to the premise his pedal rests on. But I'm not in a philosophical argument, I'm trying to see if there is a demand. Overall the vibe I got was he had begun to believe his own bs.

I put some good effort in the pedal. Here are some pics

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He also said I ripped off his aesthetic, which is hilarious. He said many contradictory things. I have it listed for $129. It's an experiment I'm doing with this and a few others. That's part of why I relisted this - I want to continue the experiment.
 
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Yeah idk, there were many things that were registering on the BS meter, but when he got to that it became clear he was off his rocker.
 
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