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His reputation though (and therefore to an extent his prices) was still undoubtedly built on custom-built, almost military-style rigs and switching systems for touring pros. I still think it's a shame though when talking about value for money to lump a bespoke rig designer in with builders of crude, noisy dirtbox replicas which originally cost 19 shillings and sixpence.
They both have their place but in terms of the "are they a rip-off?" question they are completely different products for different markets IMO.
Perhaps only Gilmour fans hadn't heard of him until Gilmour did.
Ive got a board full of crude noisy dirtbox replicas I'll have you know! Don't go tying them in with gooped warranty voided stickered grey boxes Mr!!!!
Some say it's because there be the souls of the undead trapped inside.
In fairness they are simple. The circuits are widely available, as are the originals that PC modded, altered, rehoused or made his own.
Standalone pedals are a relatively recent addition, allowing mere mortals to sample a bit of Cornish "mojo", while slightly missing the original point. (IMO)
So he used his reputation for something else to make regular pedals in his housing. As opposed to famous for making unique voiced or "better" pedals?
Hmmmm- the CC1 is utterly unique, and the G2 and P1 are absolute class leaders. I'd call that uniquely voiced. No-one's managed to succesfully clone them
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
You misunderstand me, I make crude, noisy dirtboxes for a living. DAM makes beautiful pedals, priced only 50% higher than the standard Colorsound range, and I know the care and attention that goes into them.
I don't mean to imply that they don't offer value for money, because they do, as do the standard pedals, I simply mean that a hand-crafted, standalone vintage-style pedal is more about perceived value, subjective things like tone and feel, whereas PC (at least initially) came to prominence through solving practical problems like noise, ergonomics and durability issues, in a quantifiable objective way, often built using existing pedals.
Both offer value in their own way, I'm just not sure that the OP is well served by lumping two completely contrasting ways of building effects together to examine their value-for-money simply because they're both expensive.
Apples and oranges, as they say on TGP.