Members Urinate Forever Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 zvex was never that cool. the older pedals are nice to think about but why would i want one? i can get 99% of pedals cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Urinate Forever Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 zvex was never that cool. the older pedals are nice to think about but why would i want one? i can get 99% of pedals cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hiwatt Bob Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by babycake$ I bought one. Epic first poast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hiwatt Bob Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by babycake$ I bought one. Epic first poast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jisatsu Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by Hiwatt Bob Epic first poast. three and a half years in the making epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jisatsu Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by Hiwatt Bob Epic first poast. three and a half years in the making epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sparkfriction Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 the Inventobox was a cool idea... the price is ok imo - but i am not a DIY-Guy who builds his own stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sparkfriction Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 the Inventobox was a cool idea... the price is ok imo - but i am not a DIY-Guy who builds his own stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members space cred Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 for the record the distortron and mastotron are both awesome pedals IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members space cred Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 for the record the distortron and mastotron are both awesome pedals IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juri Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 I think the idea was very good and had potential, price point is what killed it for me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juri Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 I think the idea was very good and had potential, price point is what killed it for me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sparkfriction Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 yeah the price, but two or three standalone vexter pedals cost more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sparkfriction Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 yeah the price, but two or three standalone vexter pedals cost more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members babycake$ Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by Jisatsu three and a half years in the making epic. I had to build up the courage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members babycake$ Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by Jisatsu three and a half years in the making epic. I had to build up the courage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inabox Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by space cred for the record the distortron and mastotron are both awesome pedals IMO. so is the vexter fuzz factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inabox Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by space cred for the record the distortron and mastotron are both awesome pedals IMO. so is the vexter fuzz factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members V Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by sparkfriction yeah the price, but two or three standalone vexter pedals cost more Keep in mind that there's also an unloaded version of this pedal, which makes no sound whatsoever until you build something for it yourself that costs $300. Ridiculous price point for basically a half-assembled pedal which doesn't do anything. Then, hey, for an extra hundred bucks we'll actually make it do something i guess... As people have said, if you know enough about how to make pedals to make something for the inventobox you can just put your own pots into an enclosure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members V Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Originally Posted by sparkfriction yeah the price, but two or three standalone vexter pedals cost more Keep in mind that there's also an unloaded version of this pedal, which makes no sound whatsoever until you build something for it yourself that costs $300. Ridiculous price point for basically a half-assembled pedal which doesn't do anything. Then, hey, for an extra hundred bucks we'll actually make it do something i guess... As people have said, if you know enough about how to make pedals to make something for the inventobox you can just put your own pots into an enclosure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thom Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 That's the whole thing...If you're a diy guy, you're making pedals from scratch using schematics of the net. If you're not, you go buy two, three or four REAL effects for that $400. I'm also gonna have to stick up for zvex though. Dispite his meh effects the last couple years, he's still one of the few people that put FUZZ back on the map. Since the invention of the big muff, not one boutique builder I can think of has been that popular selling a new version of a classic guitar pedal. That and the seek/probe stuff is more then enough for me to respect the guy and to see him as one of the most inovating modern pedal builders. Can't blame him for not coming up with something super cool ever year for the rest of his life. Most so-called bootique builders just sell nothing but slightly modified clones of a scrambler/muff/fuzzface/bender/rangemaster/etc year after year after year, without anyone bitching about it. But Zvex's reputation on the interwebz damaged him a little I guess. The word got out pretty quickly that his $200 fuzz factory was made of just a handfull of cheap components, and he acted like a complete gestapo officer at all the diy boards. His prices are what made me wait to buy -instead of build- a fuzz factory untill the vexter series came to live. A used one that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thom Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 That's the whole thing...If you're a diy guy, you're making pedals from scratch using schematics of the net. If you're not, you go buy two, three or four REAL effects for that $400. I'm also gonna have to stick up for zvex though. Dispite his meh effects the last couple years, he's still one of the few people that put FUZZ back on the map. Since the invention of the big muff, not one boutique builder I can think of has been that popular selling a new version of a classic guitar pedal. That and the seek/probe stuff is more then enough for me to respect the guy and to see him as one of the most inovating modern pedal builders. Can't blame him for not coming up with something super cool ever year for the rest of his life. Most so-called bootique builders just sell nothing but slightly modified clones of a scrambler/muff/fuzzface/bender/rangemaster/etc year after year after year, without anyone bitching about it. But Zvex's reputation on the interwebz damaged him a little I guess. The word got out pretty quickly that his $200 fuzz factory was made of just a handfull of cheap components, and he acted like a complete gestapo officer at all the diy boards. His prices are what made me wait to buy -instead of build- a fuzz factory untill the vexter series came to live. A used one that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members V Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Well, there's no doubt that zvex has been important and made some unique/cool effects in the past. I also have to agree he hasn't really come up with something groundbreaking in a while that lives up to his reputation for making unique/weird effects. We'll see what he brings to namm this year, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members V Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 Well, there's no doubt that zvex has been important and made some unique/cool effects in the past. I also have to agree he hasn't really come up with something groundbreaking in a while that lives up to his reputation for making unique/weird effects. We'll see what he brings to namm this year, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A.P. Ryder Posted January 7, 2011 Members Share Posted January 7, 2011 He's got a business and people who rely on him for support. Maybe the Inventobox wasn't a good idea - time will tell - but he at least tried something different, and I dig ALL of the effects I have from him. I'm not a do-it-yourself guy so I doubt I'll ever get an Inventobox, but I will buy the "Real-time Loop Junky" when it comes out. Flame suit engaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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