New JHS Pedals DIY Kit – Monday May 5th

falco_femoralis said:
At the risk of wrinkling my tin foil hat, I don't know if I believe that it was a genuine mix up. He spent a lot of time explaining a plausible scenario that led to this, but you have to ask: if the two circuits were so similar, what was the point of coming out with this in the first place? There was a big backlash of people complaining about the lack of a second footswitch and I can't help but think this was Josh's way of making a V2 of the pedal to appease these people as well as creating demand for their entire inventory of V1 kits that would otherwise be unsold in favor of the new one.

He explained their methodology of housing breadboards in their boxes with labels etc, but how does the viewer know that he didn't make that up for the video? Or any of the things he talked about without any way of verifying?
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who really cares. He's not really got any reason to lie in a "I messed up" video... the funny thing is after years of JHS going "look at this cool pedal" and the informed bits of the internet going "it's a clone" is he pretty much is laying out how much of their stuff is tracing other stuff!
 
Robert said:
Absolutely.

This is all tongue in cheek for me. I wasn't expecting a genuine Dumble product to begin with, so the fact that there actually was something interesting in there is pretty cool.

I do think these kits would be a little more interesting if they included a schematic and at least a minimal circuit explanation.


I'll try to measure those remaining cap values today.
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what you're trying to say is...
"How Josh Scott get away with tracing a load of stuff and not have people moaning "are the build docs done" every single day like I get"

and we sympathise, except we're still waiting on the build docs Robert... and that Doom2 and that other one that fella wanted.... :D
 



At 5:40, he says "JHS was in a very different State."

How the #$%^ can you and your staff not know which State your company is in? Last I checked Kansas was in Missouri.
Did he think they were in their own Private Idaho? Reverse engineering in Rhode Island?

I bet sales on this weren't going as well as hoped (ie NortaKlone levels)...
"Hmmm what can we do to drum up more interest and offload the unsold units? I know, we'll discontinue it. FOMO will sell the rest!"​

To me, this is just another way of drumming up more sales, and when the things start selling well again...

"Oh, goodie, we managed to find another stash of parts pre-tariff, and we'll be making more to meet demand..."​

OR

"Here's V2, the CORRECT version."​

...and the pedal scalpers will have a field day on Reverb selling V1s for way more than they were ever worth in the first place.



So now Robert has to get yet another unit, a V2, and we'll have both the original

NörtäDëbäclë

and the

YëtänöthërDëbäclë


COLLECT THEM ALL!
 
falco_femoralis said:
He explained their methodology of housing breadboards in their boxes with labels etc, but how does the viewer know that he didn't make that up for the video? Or any of the things he talked about without any way of verifying?
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FWIW those archival boxes have made an appearance in a previous "That Pedal Show," I think it was something about the iterations of the Morning Glory.

Josh mentioned that they only had enough parts to make 15k units. I'm not sure about any conspiracy, but their supply line is neatly tied up and they'll have a bit of cash to facilitate finding new suppliers or to keep their lights on and employees paid while waiting out the tariff disaster.
 
I'm ready to place my order now, Robert...

I'd like one McFümblë, wïth ëxträ ümläüts,

a McNörtäDëbäclë, no, wait, make that a McNørtâDébåclè with assorted diacritics ...

and ... a straight Notakliche with umlauts and accent-acute on the side: ¨ ¨ ¨ ´

​

And ...

a NøtåFlüffåhBüffétBüffåh to wash it all down with.
 
I think it was an honest mistake. I'm not sure anyone ever wants to sell that many of a product and then reveal that what it was advertised as is not the thing it actually is. That feels way too risky to be a 4D chess move that was intentional.

If I'm wrong, he's a marketing genius because it worked.
 
AceHyzer said:
I think it was an honest mistake. I'm not sure anyone ever wants to sell that many of a product and then reveal that what it was advertised as is not the thing it actually is. That feels way too risky to be a 4D chess move that was intentional.

If I'm wrong, he's a marketing genius because it worked.
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He was already a marketing genius before this, in my opinion. He proved it with the Tacobolt.
But I also think this was an honest mistake. Josh built up a lot of goodwill with his channel, including that candid video about the profits of selling pedals, so coming clean like that can only be a positive for him. It's definitely making everybody talk about JHS. The old no such thing as bad publicity chestnut, essentially.
 
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