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

Post by **Doog** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:01 am

http://reverb.com/uk/news/fender-relea ... cts-pedals

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robroe · Post by **robroe** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:58 pm

will the bends make me sound like radiohead? if so, can i throw it in the fucking trash and set that shit on fire ?

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:25 pm

lolz

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

George · Post by **George** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:37 pm

Reverbs with a pre-delay are a win, in my book. Would be interested in the price, and the added switching.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:46 pm

The reverb is Â£110 at GAK.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:10 pm

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

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:14 pm

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?

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:05 pm

Those photos look like someone's needed photos for an ebay and decided to use massive zoomins on the guitar-rig poster style equivalents.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:06 pm

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.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:08 pm

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.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:08 am

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

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:14 am

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?

dylanafghjkl · Post by **dylanafghjkl** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:24 am

well looks like they're filling a gap in the market now that strymon are exclusively making eurorack gear

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:26 pm

SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOZE

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:17 pm

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.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:37 pm

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.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:06 pm

They do look like something off Alibaba or FastTech.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:37 pm

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?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:59 pm

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.

Post by **Doog** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:26 pm