No control labels is a feature?

[Erik S]

A friend sent me a link to this pedal brand - he was interested in their Jazz Chorus pedal and wanted to know if I could get pcbs for something similar.

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Very slick website, and a cool list of products, but most notable to me was their commitment to no control labels.


All this time I thought @MichaelW was just being lazy, but turns out he was "creating a relationship separate from words".

 

[MichaelW]

A friend send me a link to this pedal brand - he was interested in their Jazz Chorus pedal and wanted to know if I could get pcbs for something similar.

Shop All Effects - Yesterday Effects

Yesterday effects offers a wide selection of analog effects pedals handmade with love in-house from start to finish.

yesterdayeffects.com

Very slick website, and a cool list of products, but most notable to me was their commitment to no control labels.


All this time I thought @MichaelW was just being lazy, but turns out he was "creating a relationship separate from words".

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That's it...I'm opening a Reverb store.......

 

[Scruffie]

That name feels familiar somehow.

 

[Harry Klippton]

 

[vigilante398]

The fact that every single one of their pedals has a picture on the site showing the labels of the controls kind of defeats their argument there.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

 

[Betty Wont]

I've found that any attempts at design on a pedal alienates someone somewhere. No color and NO LABELS sell better by far for me. Some people get fancy and label it themselves and love to show it off. Their whole synesthesia angle and oil diffuser spa day aesthetic is a big turn off for me though.

 

[swelchy]

Imagine the time @MichaelW has saved by not labeling his hundreds of builds..... That's why he's 200 builds ahead of us...

 

[szukalski]

 

[MichaelW]

I've found that any attempts at design on a pedal alienates someone somewhere. No color and NO LABELS sell better by far for me. Some people get fancy and label it themselves and love to show it off. Their whole synesthesia angle and oil diffuser spa day aesthetic is a big turn off for me though.

"synesthesia" I had to look that up.

 

[Paradox916]

I've found that any attempts at design on a pedal alienates someone somewhere. No color and NO LABELS sell better by far for me. Some people get fancy and label it themselves and love to show it off. Their whole synesthesia angle and oil diffuser spa day aesthetic is a big turn off for me though.

Are you referring to guitarist using words like “tasty” or “chewy “ to describe sounds?

 

[Erik S]

Are you referring to guitarist using words like “tasty” or “chewy “ to describe sounds?

 

[Joben Magooch]

Why does it seem like a lot of their pedals' knobs seem set weirdly "low" or just otherwise spaced in an odd way...?

I wonder if the knobs are still set in the "standard" roughly 7o'clock-5o'clock rotation? I feel like if you really wanted to lean in to the whole don't worry about what the knob says or does thing then you'd set the pointer so its rotation does not at all correspond with standard positioning (like have zero/full ccw start at 4o'clock or something)

 

[Erik S]

knobs seem set weirdly "low" or just otherwise spaced in an odd way

Maybe that's the curiosity gap.

 

[Paradox916]

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I want no part of that silliness.

 

[Robert]

Been doing this with build docs for years.

The photos do look really nice, but I fear that the aesthetic is lost the minute you take them away from the group and pastel background.

"it’s an invitation to investigate further and, in some cases, to create a relationship to the function of the knob that’s separate from words."

But they're labeled in the PDF, so ...



But hey, I definitely like them better than those pedals that can be powered by coal or whatever.

 

[jcpst]

I do like the way some of those look. But yeah, the force-fed synesthesia is ridiculous. Sound as colors, pff. Everyone knows that compression tastes like wood, chorus tastes like metal, and germanium transistors taste like barbecue.

Also, the wet/dry switch on this one has been abandoned by its designer.

 

[tegendemuur]

Looks very... Instagram-y (goes nicely with those lifeless minimalist baby and children rooms that would make any kid preffer being in a hospital than at home.)

Also, all this no label stuff makes me think of that blackboard type of paint. Let the customer can grab a bunch of crayons to finish it to his or her liking...

 

[Robert]

"creating a relationship separate from words"

That's exactly the kind of thing that'll earn you a divorce.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

so these are just using DIY pcbs right?