Do you still purchase pedals?

Same as many others here. I'd rather build it myself, but some stuff isn't available DIY — anyone know where I can get a clone PCB and programming-code bits to make my own Akai Impact/Panda Future Impact? No, I didn't think so.

If Robert wants to trace it, I'd send him my Turbo Tuner for a looky-loo.


I still collect cat-related pedals... eventually I'll have enough to name a pedalboard after this James Bond character, also the name of a drink:
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Alas, Honor Blackman who portrayed Miss Pussy Galore in Goldfinger is no longer with us. She was a cool lady on and off the screen...

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She was no picture-poser, she was a bonafide biker having served as a dispatch rider in WWII.




Anywhooo...

I passed on getting a Fat Cat offered to me, 'cause I was broke at the time — I should've got it and not eaten for a week or two.

So far I've got:
Way Huge Echo Puss — modulated delay, but no tap-tempo as per Supa-Puss.
Devi Ever BDSM (actually made by Dwarfcraft) — pink kittens!
DVK Hairball (cool thunder from Down Under) — excellent graphic it's a 808 with a Rangemaster boost and a more-bass switch.
Danelectro Coolcat Chorus (18v) — purrrrfect sounding chorus
Danelectro Coolcat Transparent OD V1 — a clone of the Timmy, IIRC, and a gift from a friend (gave me the V2 non-Timmy too!)

So, as you can see the current cat pedalboard is a more meagre Little Miss Kitty than it is a large litter Miss Pussy Galore...
She might never come to be, unless I start naming my own builds all cat names.


Most recently I picked up a 40th Anniversary EB VP — it's nice that it's black, but I don't care about the 40th Anni special edition stuff, I bought it to throw Zeppelin's mod kit at it.

Before that was a Boss LS-2 Line Selector. Sidejacks be damned there is nothing on the market nor anything that I can build that does all this unit does in such a compact package.

I bought both the VP and LS-2 at L&M from the used bin for dirt cheap compared to new and both pedals are in like-new condition.
I'm probably averaging about one new-to-me commercial pedal per year.
 
...And the flatwounds I had ordered in weren't flatwounds.

When you ask someone for flatwounds and they give you D'Addario "Flat Tops" and hope you don't notice they're not really flatwounds...

Waste of time going in to get things they don't have, having to order things from another location and then going in again to pick up what you're still not getting the item you asked for in the first place...


No wonder brick & mortar is dying.

I have resisted buying strings online for more than a decade now. I GIVE UP!

This was the final winding of the tuner-peg that broke the string.
 
I am with many others, "only if it can't be built". Well, almost. I just got a second-hand Master Effects Super 800 Plus (GK 800RB preamp) today. I told myself that I was buying it to crack open, investigate, and then sell when I build my own.
 
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