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NAMM: Fender pedals w/cool names but boring everything else

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:01 am
by Doog

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:58 pm
by robroe
will the bends make me sound like radiohead? if so, can i throw it in the fucking trash and set that shit on fire ?

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:25 pm
by jcyphe
lolz

The Bends is about the only Radiohead album I sorta like.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:37 pm
by George
Reverbs with a pre-delay are a win, in my book. Would be interested in the price, and the added switching.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:46 pm
by BearBoy
The reverb is £110 at GAK.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:10 pm
by Doog
robroe wrote:will the bends make me sound like radiohead? if so, can i throw it in the fucking trash and set that shit on fire ?
It's a compressor, so it'll make you sound more like skinny sadboys still playing twinkly emo in Space Year 2018, oh sorry
George wrote:Reverbs with a pre-delay are a win, in my book
100%, it's definitely the secret to getting some good definition to a washy sound

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:14 pm
by Fakir Mustache
Doog wrote:
robroe wrote:will the bends make me sound like radiohead? if so, can i throw it in the fucking trash and set that shit on fire ?
It's a compressor, so it'll make you sound more like skinny sadboys still playing twinkly emo in Space Year 2018, oh sorry
The headaches of scuba diving without the underwater sounds?

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:05 pm
by Bacchus
Those photos look like someone's needed photos for an ebay and decided to use massive zoomins on the guitar-rig poster style equivalents.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:06 pm
by Bacchus
And who the fuck sets things up so that everything's at about one o'clock? They've clearly decided not to have everything at twelve o'clock and done this instead. This isn't better.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:08 pm
by Bacchus
Also (and I'm sorry that I've utterly roe'd this thread):

Why do they look so shit? Fender have a certain design aesthetic. If they made pedals that were sonic blue, fiesta red, CAR etc and had pointless pearloid/anodized/tort panels on the front I would definitely buy one. Even if it was just a tube screamer.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:08 am
by sunshiner
Bacchus wrote:Also (and I'm sorry that I've utterly roe'd this thread):

Why do they look so shit? Fender have a certain design aesthetic. If they made pedals that were sonic blue, fiesta red, CAR etc and had pointless pearloid/anodized/tort panels on the front I would definitely buy one. Even if it was just a tube screamer.
They'll wait till everody else does that and in 10 years after that they'll introduce that as a cutting edge idea

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:14 am
by Fakir Mustache
Bacchus wrote:Why do they look so shit?
They look like Strymon, expensive best-selling factory made booteek SMD pedals. Why change a winning formula?

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:24 am
by dylanafghjkl
well looks like they're filling a gap in the market now that strymon are exclusively making eurorack gear
Image

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:26 pm
by Mike
SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOZE

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:17 pm
by Bacchus
Fakir Mustache wrote:
Bacchus wrote:Why do they look so shit?
They look like Strymon, expensive best-selling factory made booteek SMD pedals. Why change a winning formula?
I realise that's what they're trying to do, but they look more like bad Joyo copies of Strymons.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:37 pm
by Nick
I think the color coding LEDs are a nice idea, if every pedal manufacturer adopted that it'd be nice to see what's on in the dark. I might be over thinking it, it's probably more like a solution to a barely existent problem.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:06 pm
by jcyphe
They do look like something off Alibaba or FastTech.

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:37 pm
by BearBoy
dylanafghjkl wrote:well looks like they're filling a gap in the market now that strymon are exclusively making eurorack gear
Are they not going to be making guitar pedals any longer then?

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:59 pm
by paul_
Bacchus wrote:And who the fuck sets things up so that everything's at about one o'clock? They've clearly decided not to have everything at twelve o'clock and done this instead. This isn't better.
Image

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:26 pm
by Doog
:lol: