ZVex Inventobox

[thedudes]

scroll back, genius, and you'll see i somehow managed to also give props to the concept but without turning the discussion into a pissing contest of sales figures.

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cute. now keep the rest of your trolling out of the info threads, thanks.

[Bill Oakley]

That video deserves it's own thread. Loved the footwork on the bass drum beat!

This thread is flying off topic fast.

Bottom line this is a novelty pedal. I personally would never buy one. It's usefulness to me is none. If it was under $100, I could see getting one just to play around with possibly but I already have a breadboard.

[Earth]

With that coin you could buy your own breadboard, pots, cases and components and get way more DIY pedals completed and done, and learn a great deal more along the way. Plus your pedals would be completed and ready to go whenever you wanted them - not at the mercy of breaking down and rebuilding each time.

That's assuming that you can build pedals, the Inventobox is a halfway house.

That's assuming you know what a bread board is and how to use one! Any noob can put a BYOC pedal together but they cant use bread boards!

With that coin you could buy your own breadboard, pots, cases and components and get way more DIY pedals completed and done, and learn a great deal more along the way. Plus your pedals would be completed and ready to go whenever you wanted them - not at the mercy of breaking down and rebuilding each time.

That's assuming that you can build pedals, the Inventobox is a halfway house. Also although 299 is alot without modules, it's meant to be 399 with 3 modules, so 3 ZVex pedals for 399 = 133 each, that's not bad + you can create new sounds... that said, I won't be buying it.

I don't think the Inventobox can be used successfully by anyone who doesn't know the basics of building pedals. They will make stupid wiring errors and get a non working thing which cost them 400 bucks and a lot of frustration.

Exactly!

[Leisureclub]

I'll admit, I like the idea. I also agree it's a gimmick and probably a waste of money. I worry that it's not near idiot proof enough for 90% of the market though, maybe higher. Almost every guitar player I know IRL(myself included) would screw the thing up bad. It doesn't look like the changes you make are permanent, so that's a plus. It's also got to be a pain in the ass to get close to the sound you want, then take the fucker apart, then move a wire or whatever and then be totally off from where you're wanting to go.

I have an old Korg triton that has a similar idea. You can add some sound modules as you see fit. The difference is that with that keyboard, the modifications are made my simply plugging in a chip, like you would with RAM in a computer. No wires to patch or anything. I think that's probably where zvex is off the mark with this thing.

[pumpkin]

Zachary Vex

Is an arrogant jerk who makes really nice boutique effects in Minesota used by everyone from Trent Reznor to Kevin Shields.

Mike

Is a cantankerous argumentative geek who makes really nice boutique effects in his mom's living room played by everyone from Shad to Reece available for about a millionth of the price of a ZVex effect.

You can't really compare the two and (by doing so you've come off a prick) at least not until Mike's pedals take off which I am sure they will at some point. They sound good and are competitively priced.

A better comparison would be you and Mike... and I don't see "thedudes" making any pedals. So maybe you need to STFU.

We all have to start somewhere, Steve Wozniak made computers in his parent's garage.

[ekwatts]

[Reece]

this thread has completely lost me.

so uh yeah, how's all them knobs eh? that crazy old zachary vex.

[sp3k]

it actually seems very well thought of, for experimenting, not to use has a pedal. If it cost like 100 euros i would probably buy one. But fo the price he is asking, i think anyone who knows how to work that thing could build something similar for very less money.