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08-01-2011, 10:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Mountain South | | | Effect pedal names...childish?
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Well way back when I was just a boy, I thought Electro Harmonix was pretty 'groovy' getting away with calling a pedal a 'Big Muff Pi'. Now we got all varieties of 'swollen pickles' and lately 'harry balls'. Anybody else rather hear an intelligent or descriptive name? Anybody think the suggestive names help sales? I guess they could, but are we REALLY that shallow?
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08-01-2011, 10:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Yes. Don't worry about it.
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08-01-2011, 11:39 AM
|  | Gettin' medieval on yo' bass... | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: new hampshire | | | Yeah, I blushed when I saw the names for some pedals. Makes it hard to put them on a Christmas list -- "Mom, what I really want for Christmas is a Swollen Pickle." A sense of humor is a good thing in marketing, but I doubt that the names really enhance sales all that much.
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08-01-2011, 11:43 AM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim Yes. Don't worry about it. | +1
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08-01-2011, 11:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: nashville, tn | | | It does make for a rather awkward moment showing up for praise band practice with some of those on your board. Oh well, add "covering up the suggestive name of your bass pedals" to the 1001 uses for duct tape.
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08-01-2011, 11:57 AM
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08-01-2011, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Lumberton, TX | | i have a similar problem...i want to upgrade my bridge to a b.a. II and i play my bass in church...  |
08-01-2011, 12:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mid-Atlantic USA. | | | I guess it all come down to being "edgy". |
08-01-2011, 12:39 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | It's a marketing scheme and it's one that works. Ask yourself what you're most likely to remember - a name that's generic or something funny and original? |
08-01-2011, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by bjabass Well way back when I was just a boy, I thought Electro Harmonix was pretty 'groovy' getting away with calling a pedal a 'Big Muff Pi'. Now we got all varieties of 'swollen pickles' and lately 'harry balls'. Anybody else rather hear an intelligent or descriptive name? Anybody think the suggestive names help sales? I guess they could, but are we REALLY that shallow? | I agree. I think sellers like Spencer Doren, Brian Marshall, Taylor Livingston and Dave Koltai have done quite well for themselves without resorting to this.
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08-01-2011, 02:27 PM
| | | | Let's hope they don't make a pedal called ******* cause that'll get censored here on this forum.
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08-01-2011, 03:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | I hate when companies do that, and even worse when they label the controls with stupid names. Like the DOD stomp-box compressor they called a "Milk Box" with controls like "Cream". The name is less annoying, though some are just as childish as the Bass Player review that slammed a pedal for the font they chose to use on the unit... But freakin' tell me what the controls are. It ain't "juice", it's the level. At least none of them are as awfully bad as the Dweezil Zappa designed Wiggy amplifier Peavey made at one time...
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