Rothwell Hellbender

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:12 am

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quite liking this pedal. marshall kinda flavors. sounds like it could be expensive.

Aeon · Post by **Aeon** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:36 pm

Whoever is playing in that video is good. And the pedal sounds nice.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:51 pm

Boring rock distortion sounds boring rock. Boring. Crap knobs too wtf?

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:58 pm

Ridiculous knobs for a pedal that expensive. It's also not to my taste, too saturated and metallic.

James · Post by **James** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:00 pm

lol @ 'hand-made in England' with the Union Jack flag.

The PGS sales pitch stuff gets more annoying with each video. It sort of works with the audio because they focus on what each pedal is good at but I've heard more than enough of 'cut through the mix' 'it's digital but it has a warm analog sound' 'it's well made.. honest'.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:02 pm

I was all over the sales aspect of it when you were a young lad enthusing about them.

They lost a huge amount of creedence with me when they fell out with Catalinbread over pricing (they wanted to mark up more and Catalinbread said no) and then refused to stock their product and also pulled all their videos for CB products from their site.

It is just an advertising tool.

James · Post by **James** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:14 pm

Mike wrote:They lost a huge amount of creedence with me when they fell out with Catalinbread over pricing (they wanted to mark up more and Catalinbread said no) and then refused to stock their product and also pulled all their videos for CB products from their site.

I'd not heard about that. I know benecol made a few bad comments about the owner once but mostly Catalinbread seem like a decent company. It's not exactly going to cripple their business (although I have considered buying soe pricey pedals from them that are difficult to get hold of in the UK) but if I'm looking to import pedals from the US I'll look elsewhere.

Mike wrote:It is just an advertising tool.

It's funny how many youtube kids ask 'can you do a demo of x pedal?' when it's a company they don't stock pedals for. It makes you wonder if they're oblivious to the 'we are trying to sell you these pedal' angle.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:16 pm

Benecol haet Catalinbread?

Nic seems ok to me, a little forthright at times and liek a few other builders he gets caught in arguments on HCFX when he should know better.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:26 pm

sounds kinda thin and whiny to me, but i guess thats just my new computer speakers.
either way, i would rock it out.
wait, no i wouldn't, cuz i got a thunder and a saltbooster!

James · Post by **James** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:36 pm

Mike wrote:Benecol haet Catalinbread?

I can't remember much of the detail but it's to do with something he did (maybe a few things he did) on another forum. I think something along the lines of he faked his death (posed as a family member to post it, or had someone else connected with him post about it) and then a few days later came back with an 'April Fool's!' type post.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:44 pm

Funnily enough, I'm currently mid- climbdown about Catalinbread: the reason for my haet was twofold. Firstly, Nic was very forthright on another forum I frequent about buying and flipping gear; at the time I thought this was overly idealistic of him, but having seen shortscale brodeals in action, I'm starting to think he had a point (if a very forthright way of making it).

Secondly, and more importantly, he faked his own suicide on the same forum; another poster said they'd found him hanged that morning. Now, on a relatively small forum, that has a real impact (try and imagine if that happened here), and as someone who's been effected by suicide, it really shook me. So when the 'only joking!' post appeared a few hours later, I didn't find it one tiny bit amusing. However, it's also since transpired that Nic didn't have much to do with that prank either.

So a principled pedal builder who is making exciting products, marred slightly by his possible involvement in faked suicides. If I'd have known I was going to forgive him, I'd never have swapped the Teaser Stallion with James.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:53 pm

faking a suicide, NOT FUCKING COOL! so the guy is a dumbass.
give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:57 pm

WTF.

People are fucking odd.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:00 pm

But, I should reiterate, Nic didn't make that thread, and I'm not at all sure he was even involved with it. Took me a very long time to stop being cross about it though.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:09 pm

Nah I know, I'm not referring to him.

I would be livid also.

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:52 am

i used to want one of them, ya know, support your local builders etc, but it is pretty similar to my crunchbox (the crunchbox maybe a little warmer) and it was like Â£150 or something ridiculous.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:24 am

chisa wrote:i used to want one of them, ya know, support your local builders etc, but it is pretty similar to my crunchbox (the crunchbox maybe a little warmer) and it was like Â£150 or something ridiculous.

did you ever get that pm i sent you? about the ts808 going cheap?

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:29 pm

ah yes, sorry i didn't get back to you on that, just too poor to score at the moment

still trying to sell teh strat