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05-26-2010, 06:17 AM
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Originally Posted by CallMeBlind  Any thoughts? | Sure. The SFT is not based on or supposed to sound like an SVT.
So if that is an "SVT in a Box" then its not doing what the SFT is. |
05-26-2010, 06:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Amsterdam, NL | | | can´t judge if it sounds like the original SFT, but this clone seems to be expensive if you ask me .... i guess the parts only cost around 45 U$, maybe it does not sound like the SFT and thats the reason why he wants to sell it.
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05-26-2010, 09:58 AM
|  | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | | Why would you buy a clone of an available, affordable (and great) pedal? |
05-26-2010, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by grygrx Why would you buy a clone of an available, affordable (and great) pedal? | if you can solder, a simple answer to your question would be: to save a lot (>100U$) of money and it´s fun to build it. |
05-26-2010, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by faceinbass Sure. The SFT is not based on or supposed to sound like an SVT. | Errr.... I thought that's exactly what the SFT was all about. Even the name, they just swapped F for FET (the transistor commonly used to emulate tubes) for the V for valve (tube) of SVT. |
05-26-2010, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by grygrx Why would you buy a clone of an available, affordable (and great) pedal? | Mostly because I live in Europe. Ordering a brand new pedal from US is a lot of fun, but not when you have to deal with customes, taxes and all that stuff 
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05-26-2010, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by fasto if you can solder, a simple answer to your question would be: to save a lot (>100U$) of money and it´s fun to build it. | re: building a clone vs buying a clone |
05-26-2010, 11:39 AM
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05-26-2010, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by grygrx Why would you buy a clone of an available, affordable (and great) pedal? | this |
05-26-2010, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by CallMeBlind Mostly because I live in Europe. Ordering a brand new pedal from US is a lot of fun, but not when you have to deal with customes, taxes and all that stuff | You just have to know which online store to use and you can avoid "all that stuff"
I sold my SFT long time ago, but right now I want to give it another chance. |
05-26-2010, 01:48 PM
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Everyone should send them some nasty emails. |
05-26-2010, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania Errr.... I thought that's exactly what the SFT was all about. Even the name, they just swapped F for FET (the transistor commonly used to emulate tubes) for the V for valve (tube) of SVT. | That is my understanding as well.
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05-26-2010, 04:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Long Island | | Not sure why they chose to use a name that would obviously be logical to assume a "SVT in a pedal"
Yet, despite it's name.... I'd say they make no effort to pass it off as anything other than it is.
For starters.....it's painted Blue Checker.
Their website and youtube channel promote more of a "Fliptop in a box" vibe and also it's ability to be used as a Dist/OD pedal. Never a mention of the mighty SVT.
Maybe the F is for Fliptop 
It's a great pedal.....get the real thing, you won't be sorry.
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05-26-2010, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania Errr.... I thought that's exactly what the SFT was all about. Even the name, they just swapped F for FET (the transistor commonly used to emulate tubes) for the V for valve (tube) of SVT. | I thought they were going for the porta flex tonez and not the SVT tonez. |
05-26-2010, 08:40 PM
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05-26-2010, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania Yeah I guess that would go with the blue checker design as noted above... I was swayed by the name they gave it. | No worries!
F*ck this clone though.. DO NOT WANT!
Catalinbread is just too cool of a SMALL pedal company to be cloning so soon after its release. Its just lame. period.
And fwiw, I LOVE CLONEZ! |
05-27-2010, 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by grygrx | At least here in Finland Catalinbread dealer has free shipping inside Europe! And I am not working for that company or anything.  |
05-27-2010, 01:42 AM
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Originally Posted by judas jedermann At least here in Finland Catalinbread dealer has free shipping inside Europe! And I am not working for that company or anything. | I was about to post the same, after checking out all European reatilers :> It's 159 EUR from Finland with a free shipping, Belgium came second with 151 EUR +12 EUR shipping. I think I'll go for a new one from Finland.
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05-27-2010, 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by faceinbass F*ck this clone though.. DO NOT WANT!
Catalinbread is just too cool of a SMALL pedal company to be cloning so soon after its release. Its just lame. period. | Seriously. Making an "SVT in a box" is totally fine. Plenty of companies make such pedals, and plenty of other market pedals as being able to get that SVT tone. But to make one with the exact same layout as the SFT, and even marketing it as a clone, what, a YEAR after the SFT came out? Thats just being a dick.
PLEASE no one buy one of those. Catalinbread deserve better than this. And if this were Schumann or Chicago Iron or Tortuga or another company that makes REALLY expensive pedals that are way above many peoples budgets, then MAYBE you'd have a point. But we're not. Catalinbread pedals are only a bit more expensive than mass produced ones from large companies, and far better quality.
This is bull****
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