Announcing three new pedals from Fredric Effects

fretmeister

My posts are entirely my own! 

(I didn't actually spot the 'flag' button either!)

Apologies if I've upset anyone - was not my intention.

OilCityPickups

No but Sporky is (I believe)  ... and his comment

Sporky said:

This area of the site is for UK builders to share knowledge, not for press releases.

Was blunt, arguably, to the point of rudeness. There are ways of going about things, and we all know and love Sporky for the rude sod he is ... but new members don't have this insight.

digitalscream

Right, can I propose a way forward here? I think the discussion's got to the point where it's not really fair to @timhulio to continue.

1 - @timhulio posts a new thread with the original content, phrased in a bit less of a press-release-y kind of way.

2 - @timhulio uses that thread for all updates, like Jaden/Ash/Wez etc have done - it keeps all their stuff in one place, and interested parties only have to bookmark the one thread to stay up-to-date instead of watching the whole sub-forum.

3 - Delete this thread, so as not to pollute the original intent with the discussion.

4 - Everybody buys each other a pint

?

fretmeister

'Wisdom' earned.

@timhulio might even get a sale from me if he started putting clean blends on his drive and fuzz pedals.

Mine's a Guinness please.

monquixote

Spot on DS

ChrisMusic

@digitalscream, whole heartedly agree with you.

So I don't mind adding here as it is only temporary.

One addition suggested by Ash of real value "A message of welcome for new trade contributors with a set of basic guidelines would be good" and should encourage active participation across the whole FretBoard, not just in UK Makers, making it clear that all contributions and opinions are welcomed.  That should also avoid a repeat of this.  BUT there are some useful lessons included here, so...

One major point about this thread.

It would be a shame to loose it, and it also explains a number of different perspectives on this valuable topic.

Could you guys not cut out the appropriate (controversial and unrelated to Tim's post) comments and put them into a discussion for future reference and further comment.  That leaves Tim's post clean.  It may even be enlightening.

OilCityPickups

ChrisMusic said:

@digitalscream, whole heartedly agree with you.

So I don't mind adding here as it is only temporary.

One addition suggested by Ash of real value "A message of welcome for new trade contributors with a set of basic guidelines would be good" and should encourage active participation across the whole FretBoard, not just in UK Makers, making it clear that all contributions and opinions are welcomed.  That should also avoid a repeat of this.  BUT there are some useful lessons included here, so...

One major point about this thread.

It would be a shame to loose it, and it also explains a number of different perspectives on this valuable topic.

Could you guys not cut out the appropriate (controversial and unrelated to Tim's post) comments and put them into a discussion for future reference and further comment.  That leaves Tim's post clean.  It may even be enlightening.

Plus one to that

stickyfiddle

Another +1 from me for suggestions.

I'd also like to add a general +1 for @Timhulio for makin. Great pedals at good prices (his GoldenEagle Klone is one only favourite pedals) and being a good faster dispatcher, which is always welcome.

And everyone likes a photoblog of a build

timhulio

@fretmeister - the Scrambled Brainz has a clean blend. Works nicely on both bass and guitar because of this.

Wow this thread really acquired a life of it's own! I don't think it should be deleted - there's lots of constructive opinions in it, and it's useful to thrash these things out when a new forum is still finding its feet.

IMO there are few enough professional UK builders of guitars, pedals, pickups and amps that if each one of them had a single thread to hawk their wares in whatever way they see fit it'd be in no way detrimental to the forum as a whole. I can think of ... at a push... a dozen pedal companies, half a dozen pickup builders (if that), one or two amp builders and not that many guitar makers (especially on a 'production line' sort of scale. I doubt they'd all want to post anyway. That said, I can see that it's more interesting for everyone concerned if there's a two-way discourse rather than just advert posts.

monquixote

Sorry for posting an on topic question, but what does the switch do on the Trem?

OilCityPickups

timhulio said:

@fretmeister - the Scrambled Brainz has a clean blend. Works nicely on both bass and guitar because of this.

Wow this thread really acquired a life of it's own! I don't think it should be deleted - there's lots of constructive opinions in it, and it's useful to thrash these things out when a new forum is still finding its feet.

IMO there are few enough professional UK builders of guitars, pedals, pickups and amps that if each one of them had a single thread to hawk their wares in whatever way they see fit it'd be in no way detrimental to the forum as a whole. I can think of ... at a push... a dozen pedal companies, half a dozen pickup builders (if that), one or two amp builders and not that many guitar makers (especially on a 'production line' sort of scale. I doubt they'd all want to post anyway. That said, I can see that it's more interesting for everyone concerned if there's a two-way discourse rather than just advert posts.

Welcome Fretboard geezer ... I am biased ... but I think it's the best natured, and most balanced guitar related forum about ... but then pickup winders don't get out much

timhulio

monquixote said:

Sorry for posting an on topic question, but what does the switch do on the Trem?

The switch doubles the rate of the tremolo. You can get some really weird effects if you set it ultra fast.

@TheGuitarWeasel Thanks, nice to be here! It's good to find a decent UK-based guitar forum, and this place seems to have something MusicRadar lacked. 

monquixote

Cheers

Had a listen to your youtube demo and it sounds great. 

Loving the Grumbly Wolf btw. It's got some serious synthy goodness.

EdGrip

It saddens me to think that builders feel that they can't comment, speak and participate freely on the whole forum. I don't know what would fix that, but fix it we should. Ash? Tim? What are your thoughts on that bit in particular?

I like the idea that everyone's here to enjoy talking geeky guitary stuff, all friends together - whether or not we work within the geeky guitary field. There are some forums where those who make stuff are very much a different species of poster, cats with bells on their collars. We don't want that. 

timhulio

The metal shop who make my Super Unpleasant Companion enclosures fabricated me a prototype of a Hammond BB sized enclosure with CNC'd holes. Pretty swell jerb, even if the holes are on the wrong side. Obvs if they made another it'd be right ;-)

They also mentioned they can make the smaller, MXR-sized boxes. Think I'll get the next batch of percolators done this way.

monquixote

EdGrip said:

It saddens me to think that builders feel that they can't comment, speak and participate freely on the whole forum. I don't know what would fix that, but fix it we should. Ash? Tim? What are your thoughts on that bit in particular?

I like the idea that everyone's here to enjoy talking geeky guitary stuff, all friends together - whether or not we work within the geeky guitary field. There are some forums where those who make stuff are very much a different species of poster, cats with bells on their collars. We don't want that. 

We certainly aren't stopping people infact we welcome it. 

alalalkasar

Shameless bump, have used your harmonic perc for a long time and loved it. Just got one of your green russians in a trade and my god....................I'm back in love with muffs.

BornFromAJackal

Have to say my Zombie Klon clone is my favrourite pedal in my board, thanks!