This looks like a good idea

skullfunkerry

 Choose at least 5 pedals, start a subscription and get them for a month each to try:

www.tonebuddy.co.uk

It's something to do with Sound Affects I think: was linked in an email from them.

What does everyone think?

skunkwerx

The ideas been done a couple times before and I believe with not much success. 


If I were inclined I could just order a pedal online, test it, use it for a recording etc, and as long as I keep it pristine and box it back up, just send it back for a full refund under Dsr. 

skunkwerx

Im confused having looked at it.. 

So theres an annual subscription for £300, which has a minimum rental term
of 2 weeks.. but I presume that means you can go nuts and every 2 weeks for a year get a new pedal to try? 

Then theres the 'pedal subscription' for £30 with no minimum rental term.. So is that for all 5 selected pedals over a month, Or £30 per pedal for a month, and you must have 5, so £150..

 

skullfunkerry

I didn't look too much into the prices (mainly because I didn't want to realise I could afford to do it!), but that does seem a little strange

EricTheWeary

Sound Affects are in Ormskirk although different address.

Yeh, two or three previous attempts at doing something similar ( one regularly posted on here for a while) that all seem to have disappeared. Good luck to them but history suggests they won’t make a fortune. 

skullfunkerry

EricTheWeary said:

Sound Affects are in Ormskirk although different address.

Yeh, two or three previous attempts at doing something similar ( one regularly posted on here for a while) that all seem to have disappeared. Good luck to them but history suggests they won’t make a fortune. 

I guess it would be something that people would try, and then stop quite quickly because they'd realise they were spending a load of money on pedals (or even worse, spending a load of money and not having any pedals at the end of it)

Whitecat

The idea might just be to drive people just buy the ones they like outright... can see them sending out special offers to people who have rented on specific gear... so not really to profit much on the actual rental service. Not to mention the data available on "market interest" ...

AntonHunter

Sorry to drag this thread up again 18 months later, but is anyone doing this? Thoughts on it? It just came to mind as a way to try a bunch of Chase Bliss stuff I'd never be able to justify owning and wondered if anyone's got any experience to share.