Question About Selling

jdduffield

jdduffield

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This is a question for those of you who sell pedals. I’m wondering if people are typically willing to pay more for pedals that have effects created by the FV-1 chip. Those chips are pricey, and I’m wondering if there is a good chance of recouping the extra cost or if people just expect them to cost the same as drive and fuzz pedals. This assumes the FV-1 is configured to deliver a super cool effect, like a lo fi delay or ambient reverb, etc., … assume it is programmed well and has a nice enclosure design when you answer please.
 
99% of guitar players have never heard of an FV-1, and even fewer know how much they cost. Unless you are building original designs at large scale, your margins will be nonexistent. As someone who sells regularly, I only do FV-1 builds if I intend to keep them for myself.
 
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I typically expect reverbs and delays to cost more than overdrives... regardless of what kind of electronics are inside.

With that said, overdrives and distortions seem to hold value better than reverbs or delays.

Off the top of my head I can't think of too many overhyped/scalped reverb pedals. (Not talking about vintage rack gear)
 
Robert said:
I typically expect reverbs and delays to cost more than overdrives... regardless of what kind of electronics are inside.
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That is kind of what I thought. It is also what I notice when I go to buy pedals for myself. I’m not wanting to go down the FV-1 rabbit hole strictly for “the money”. The way my mind works, I think I’ll enjoy it. I’m into computer science and my day job is in web. I also produce music for fun and enjoy mixing and tweaking plugins. I expect DSP programming to be a good fit for me. I just don’t want it to be a financial mistake because I do need to make a little profit along the way and am content working with strictly analog circuits.

I have a couple questions that I know you can answer if you have a minute.

1. Is it common to build an analog overdrive, and a digital FV1 effect, and sum them together in the same circuit or is that a bad idea? Would it even fit into a 125B?

And 2. If I bought one of the FV1 Development PCBs sold here, and maybe the EEROM chip and control bus as well, would that be something that could help me get started where I could program it with SpinCAD or something, then send that data to the pedal and try it in real time?
 
For 1. It’s possible if you do your own pcb design but it’ll be tight, have to be a really small drive circuit. Unless you do stacked pcbs (such as the PPCB Byzantium).

2. The PPCB fb-1 development board is what you’re after. It took me a bit of finagling to get the programs running on my pc for the flashing, but there are good documents and the sale page.

The fv-1 language is very different and unique, the spin semi site has a lot of training info for the language. I thought it was a steep learning curve. Not sure if someone with more programming background would pick it up easier. There’s also the spincad program to help write patches without getting into the language.
 
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