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I honestly believe all most companies see is the possible large-scale waste 'out of the desired range' components. The lower price and predictability of op-amps and modern transistors makes them far more appealing for mass production. Although putting it rather simplistically 1000 JRC4558s could make you 1000 Tubescreamer clones, whereas more 1000 expensive and harder to source in large number vintage transistors may only yield 100-200 fuzz faces.
The point stands that some pedals are horrendously overpriced. The klon was one, and I don't really like it much. The timmy wasn't nice either, but I did try a les lius which I loved, despite being a metal guitarist mostly (it made everything sound awesome).
But it's just a rip off, and that saddens me. It's a great pedal, but expensive and not original - as far as I know, it's just modded slightly?
the KSR comes with a comment on the enclosure "Kindly remember the ridiculous hype that offends so many is not of my making"
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It's dismissive without addressing why something has been judged lacking - a common trick among the manipulative and their confederacy of dunces.
Not necessarily meaning to say you are either, merely that you risk being mistaken for such a person by using their tools.
Again, the prevalence of people selling pedals they've made in their spare time while a day job pays for their food and shelter has massively distorted the market. If I was trying to make a living selling Valvesporkers I reckon I could make four a day. To pay the mortgage, other bills and food I'd then have to sell those for about £200 a pop...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
And I'm sure in that you are solely incorporating production cost, let alone setting about promotion and PR to ensure you are managing to sell a steady amount.
I wouldn't say the Klon was majorly overpriced but I do feel it set a marker for new boutique price-points to follow. If you include the extravagant enclosure which many say cost around £100 to produce, part for part the Klon is actually cheaper than some of it's contemporaries.
I look at the Sunface sometimes and think that maybe it's over-priced then think the if Analogman wasn't charging those prices then he probably wouldn't be able to survive making them.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
There's usually no small level of self-satisfaction at being able to deploy such a pithy but convincingly working class sounding epithet as a rebuff against oh you know something or something they're not prepared to engage with.
So I imagine that smug grin... feel the same urge to bury my size 12 boot up their arse, "see disappearing up there is a painful process have a bit of empathy next time".
conditioned response, much like the use of such phrases ... anyway thre ya go KSRs some do some don't.
Also you could possibly make the case that it was overpriced compared to what it cost in dollars in the USA to buy... I can't remember exactly but I seem to remember it cost more or less the same in pounds (~£300 IIRC) as it did in dollars, at least at the time I was aware of them. IIRC that was also around about the time that a pound bought you two dollars...
True. A lot of US gear seems to be marked the same in dollars as pounds.
Now I mean obviously there are several reasons for it (some perfectly legitimate, I'm well aware of that), but it's still annoying )
Thanks for a great laugh!!!
Brgrds,