What's hot in 2021: PAINT ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH FUZZES

[Gone Fission]

I looked at Montreal Assembly prices on reverb and the ask tends to have a strong (though not peak) flipper’s premium.

A lot of small production stuff seems to be pulling high used prices, and it may not be flipping for its own sake. Supply chains are fucked, fucking with availability of products new, making people more likely to fulfill their wants or needs buying used, pushing used prices up. Sometimes past used. Try pricing a Thermae—a pedal still in production and not at intentionally limited quantities. Asks are getting towards a 100% markup. Or you can wait for one to show up at retail prices at a dealer and hope you’re the fastest.

The fuckedness shouldn’t last forever but i expect that it will be weird when it unwinds.

[Blackened Soul]

The fuckedness shouldn’t last forever but i expect that it will be weird when it unwinds.

yeah... is any of the stuff actually selling though? I see a lot of stuff overpriced but all the stuff I am watching hasn't actually moved in a long time.. Also I don't see a lot of new stuff coming up.. like in guitar/bass parts.. I know I stopped listing stuff back at the height of the BLM protests because I noticed my stuff was moving slower and slower and the low balling kept increasing so I just stopped but I watch a lot.. I need to do a few test sales soon.. I have a lot of necks I can move, I that is one thing I don't see for sale much...

[coupleonapkins]

There is no better combination of phrases on an overpriced for sale listing than "If you know what this is..." and "priced to sell!", but I guess we also have a thread for that

I don't know if the pedal bubble will ever pop, as it's turning into some kind of futures/gambling type situation, but at least it's carbon footprint is less than an NFT or crypto currency (and occasionally it can help 4 make the musics).

[cosmicevan]

There is no better combination of phrases on an overpriced for sale listing than "If you know what this is..." and "priced to sell!", but I guess we also have a thread for that

I don't know if the pedal bubble will ever pop, as it's turning into some kind of futures/gambling type situation, but at least it's carbon footprint is less than an NFT or crypto currency (and occasionally it can help 4 make the musics).

There are those random moments of clarity where people give up and decide they just want to sell the damned thing as opposed to squeeze max dollars and then you actually can get a nice price.

[whoismarykelly]

Reverb has become weighted down with items that are only kinda sorta for sale which is a portion of readily available stuff that people post for 50% more than you can get one for all day long. I've seen descriptions like "I don't need to sell it but if someone wants to take it off my hands for this go ahead." Im sure there are folks that get their new hype pedals and list them on Reverb for huge money but then also put them on their boards knowing its unlikely they will actually sell for that much.

[echorec]

This starts streaming Friday. It looks like you can stream it for as little as $5.

https://metrograph.com/live-screenings/ ... ansistors/
https://metrograph.com/membership/

I'm not sure if 10 GBP gets you a permanent copy or just a temporary streaming code.

https://www.modernfilms.com/sisterswithtransistors

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaWpCC-hYv0[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaWpCC-hYv0

[jirodreamsofdank]

It's often way more than $20-50. It's not uncommon for it to be double the price (see Pladask, Cooper, SSBS NoMem/Pretty Years, some of these CBAs etc). So, this is why it's somewhat lucrative and why people are drawn to it. Just sucks for the people who just love pedals and want to play with them.

The irony being that many of those that sell for almost double are actually not all that hard to get if you are willing to sign up for a mailing list and actually try for the pedal at the onsale date/time. It takes maybe 10 minutes of your life to pay retail prices. I was always shocked watching montreal assembly stuff sell at inflated prices when he had stock on his site. It's as if people don't even bother to look if the builders have things available.

There are a lot of people who can't sit at a computer at 1 in the afternoon hitting refresh to get in before the server crashes or a limited run sells out, though.

[backwardsvoyager]

https://www.electronicaudioexperiments.com/0xeae/boost

Anyone gonna cop?

[goroth]

No, but those demos sound hella good

[qersty]

$300 rangemaster?

[coldbrightsunlight]

No, but those demos sound hella good

^^^^

[D.o.S.]

to me, some of this phenomenon has crossed over from questionable to flat-out morally wrong. guess i'm not a capitalist.

Capitalism is not and has never been moral.

Nor is it really a free exchange of goods for services.It sells itself as such, but is
actually more like a parasitic pyramid scheme in which you only make money if
you have already made a lot of money for those higher up the ladder.

This is also the basis of the Art World (which has been all about money-laundering
for generations). Dealers prefer dead artists because that presents a nice story and
aura to the art to stoke demand and also keeps the supply limited.

OK. So much for the depressing stuff.

Tools are still tools. Art is still art. Music is still music. The way to circumvent
the grift is to buy tools direct from the person/people who make them and if you can't,
then avoid the markup-market. Outside of some forum sales that can be reasonable,
I try to buy from guitar shops that specialize in music gear and have musicians for
employees.

For the time being shows, and walking into shops is difficult, but it would be nice if
the lines of mutually beneficial connection were retained for the After-The-Pandemic Times.

I gravitated towards pedals as opposed to computer-based plug-ins because I find tactile interfaces
better for performing live. There are no live performances with audiences right now. So maybe...?

There's gotta be a way. A better way.

sounds like someone is ready to embrace the VST

[manymanyhaha]

https://www.electronicaudioexperiments.com/0xeae/boost

Anyone gonna cop?

A couple more features than a Rangemaster . . . .

I want to play with this, interested to see how the filter slider and the focus slider interact. This has been one of my criticisms of most treble boosts and the ivp: Inability to filter out of some of the harshness created.

[goroth]

$300 rangemaster?

Yeah kinda, but not at all if you know what I mean. There's a lot going on in the circuit. Check out the clips on the eae website - I reckon they'd be up your alley.

If there's one person who isn't a snake oil salesman it's EAE John. Dude is super legit in terms of his skills, his approach to the business but also his playing.

[qersty]

$300 rangemaster?

Yeah kinda, but not at all if you know what I mean. There's a lot going on in the circuit. Check out the clips on the eae website - I reckon they'd be up your alley.

If there's one person who isn't a snake oil salesman it's EAE John. Dude is super legit in terms of his skills, his approach to the business but also his playing.

I read up on it a little more and it is not at all a rangemaster apparently. Some discrete OP amp thing. (so an over-engineered 300 dollar Micro Amp ). Probably a cool circuit but a booster in that price range starts to get alarming to me

https://www.electronicaudioexperiments.com/0xeae/boost

Anyone gonna cop?

A couple more features than a Rangemaster . . . .

I want to play with this, interested to see how the filter slider and the focus slider interact. This has been one of my criticisms of most treble boosts and the ivp: Inability to filter out of some of the harshness created.

the only true way to beat the harshness is more distortion