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If you were to walk into a store, what brands of pedals would you like to see?


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Originally posted by fusionid

Ive never seen a small guitar store that lets customers try pedals without buying
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In a perfect world, I would like to see zvex, fulltone, subdecay and EH



I've never heard of a store that makes you buy a pedal before you try it. We have Ludlow Street Guitars, Matt Uminov's and Carmine Street Guitars in lower Manhattan and I've tried pedals in all of them without buying. Is it really that differenent on the West Coast?

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Theres a local store in vancouver that lets you do it. Me and a buddy casually walked in and asked to play some zvex they had in stock..clearly we arent going to buy any for 400 bucks a pop, but the guy was cool and let us have a go. They had lots of great vintage pedals and amps..and I ended up walking home with an ibanez de-7.

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i leave a store immediately if they don't let me have a try what i want to try.

i heard this week from a friend who went to a bigger store in our area were i bought an amp and a guitar and they were realy nice to me. he wanted to try a boogie single rect or triple rect (i don't know which) and the sale guy came up to him and said "you don't need to try it, you cannot afford it anyway" before he said hi to him or anything else.
i guess i never going to buy anything from them any more.

good stores have good service, good manners and let you try anything what they have in the store. asking first in a nicely way is a good behaviour of a customer

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Originally posted by t_e_l_e

good stores have good service, good manners and let you try anything what they have in the store. asking first in a nicely way is a good behaviour of a customer

 

 

Swissvale music on Pittsburgh is great for that. I've gone down several times to try out Bad Cats, Riveras, Fulltone pedals, Tom Anderson guitars and they are great to work with. Very knowledgable too. I haven't bought anything but accessories there yet, but my next couple of purchases will definately be from there.

 

I wish they had red witch, barber, H.B.E, more zvex (there was only one there when I tried out pedals last week).

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i have yet to be in a guitar shop that told me i could not try anything out. that is a horrible buisness practice. by doing that they are losing possible income. good businessmen understand that keeping the customer happy will eventually lead to the customer buying something.

but anyway i would love to see a guitar shop that had brands like

red witch, subdecay, moog, zvex, keeley, if i saw a store with all that kind of stuff, i don't think i'd ever want to leave. as long as they didn't kick me out for not buying anything :thu:

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Originally posted by fusionid

Ive never seen a small guitar store that lets customers try pedals without buying
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In a perfect world, I would like to see zvex, fulltone, subdecay and EH



the guitar store i go to lets me take pedals home to try with my rigs. you just have to find the right store, and become a steady customer.

you list is good, but i would like to add some E13 pedals because i have been wanting to try one for a long time but cant bring myself to plunk down a chunk of change for something i cant try out first. i guess i am spoiled.

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