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Originally Posted by Plays_For_Dog  | That's excellent. Thanks for posting, PFD.
Though I don't know Newton or his music (yeah, I'll cop to it!), at once I liked how he spoke about the craft and the tools. I've worked with serious musicians and can always tell. This man is the real deal. "I always go back to the OSD. I'd told Ryan what distortion I was using and he'd claimed he could beef it up and he did just that. That'd be my desert island distortion pedal (if the rest of my gear and electricity happened to be there as well)."
So there you go. Though I have since become smitten with the DD and the BDPG, too, it was Ryan's original OSD demo video that sold me on Fuzzrocious. Of the many samples and videos I listened to while researching the marque, none of them tipped me over until that OSD demo. What an instrument!
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11-12-2012, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Visalia CA | | | Yeah, great read. Thanks!
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11-12-2012, 12:22 PM
|  | Bartle doo? | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Missing Mountains | | | Shep and Newton discussing gear with dedicated Fuzzrocious convo = WIN
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11-12-2012, 02:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | | There's so much to like about Shep's latest interview. Great player, talking about great pedals with another great player who actually understands what he is talking about. Awesome! |
11-13-2012, 09:14 AM
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Builder for FUZZROCIOUS PEDALS | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mount Laurel, NJ | | Our NEW website is active!!
Totally fancy! Http://www.fuzzrociouspedals.com |
11-13-2012, 09:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada | | Nice work Ryan, it looks great. I will spend some time digging around the various pages over lunch  |
11-13-2012, 09:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho | | | Nice work Ryan, just checked the new website out. Looks awesome! |
11-13-2012, 09:28 AM
|  | Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion. | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ohio | | | Great site clean, informative and user friendly I wish more pedal makers would include demos instead of leaving it to the customers to troll the internet looking for them.
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11-13-2012, 09:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Visalia CA | | | Wonderful improvement, Ry!
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11-13-2012, 11:58 AM
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Builder for FUZZROCIOUS PEDALS | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mount Laurel, NJ | | | Thanks, dudes!
I need more time to get more/better demos together.
BTW, wait til you guys hear my use of the RT and GS on my new band's demo!!! |
11-13-2012, 12:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: S.F. now, Boston originally | | | Site looks awesome! So sweet that I might just have to pull the trigger on one of these bad boys soon.
Also, probably not a huge deal, but making a mobile-friendly version of the site would be a nice touch. It looks different (and inferior) on my iPhone versus on a computer.
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11-13-2012, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by rratajski | It's good, Ryan; a big improvement. Congrats on the launch!
"How to make your Rat King bark like a dog"... Hahaha! Maybe that was there before, but I just noticed it now.
One suggestion for a non-obvious improvement:
Though currently the content of the homepage is mostly like a "products" or "pedals" page, conceptually they are different. This becomes important on the product pages: while reading and listening, a visitor may forget that the homepage is where the various products are arrayed. Repeatedly, I found myself looking for a link to "pedals". Just in case I am representative, there is this opportunity to enable visitors to navigate more easily.
It's an information architecture thing, and I share it with you in appreciation of your excellent pedal design. 
Best,
Snaxster
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11-13-2012, 03:23 PM
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Builder for FUZZROCIOUS PEDALS | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mount Laurel, NJ | | Thank you, but I'll keep the products on the main page as that's the reason the site exists: for people to see the pedals. Less words/more pretty pictures.  |
11-13-2012, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by rratajski Thank you, but I'll keep the products on the main page as that's the reason the site exists: for people to see the pedals. Less words/more pretty pictures. | My pleasure! But it seems I didn't describe my idea well. What I meant was this:
Keep the collection of products on the homepage. But also enable visitors to quickly navigate to the page that shows the collection of pedals (currently the homepage) by adding a "pedals" link to each product page's navigation bar.
The premise is that you should capitalize on the difference between 1. what and where the content is, and 2. how visitors think of the content.
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11-13-2012, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Snaxster My pleasure! But it seems I didn't describe my idea well. What I meant was this:
Keep the collection of products on the homepage. But also enable visitors to quickly navigate to the page that shows the collection of pedals (currently the homepage) by adding a "pedals" link to each product page's navigation bar.
The premise is that you should capitalize on the difference between 1. what and where the content is, and 2. how visitors think of the content. | So just change the word "home" to "pedals" |
11-13-2012, 07:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Crown Point, IN | | Love the site! Love your pedals! Love you and Shan!!
SO MUCH Love!!! 
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11-13-2012, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by tigerbass Love the site! Love your pedals! Love you and Shan!!
SO MUCH Love!!! | I'm gonna love those guitar demozzzzz |
11-13-2012, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Visalia CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rratajski BTW, wait til you guys hear my use of the RT and GS on my new band's demo!!! | When?
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11-13-2012, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by rratajski So just change the word "home" to "pedals" | (Sorry for my delayed reactions, Ryan. I've been working on something technical.)
One of three usual ways would do, I think:
1. A "home"-equivalent icon (logo, typically) that persists in appearance and position, across all the site's pages. It links to the homepage.
2. A navigation structure (bar, panel, doodad, whatever) that persists in behavior, basic appearance and position, across all the site's pages. If not 1, it includes a link to the homepage; but if 1, it may or may not include a link to the homepage (thus if 1 and it does, that's like "belt and suspenders".)
3. Whether 2 and/or 3, a breadcrumb trail. TalkBass.com uses this. It comprises a hierarchical list of destinations in the site, typically starting with "home" and ending with the current page.
Each of those has strengths and weaknesses, used alone or together. There are other ways, too.
In your new design I would do these:
A. Separate the page header into two linked segments: "FUZZROCIOUS PEDALS" linked to the homepage, and "[current page topic]" linked to the current page (or better yet, not linked!)
B. In the navigation bar, prepend "HOME ||| PEDALS", where for now both "HOME" and "PEDALS" link to the homepage (in future, you may have a more in-depth product page, even if the homepage still summarizes your product line.)
Whaddya think?
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11-13-2012, 10:57 PM
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Previously I posted about using an equalizer with my OSD.
Well tonight I found my OSD sound. No equalizer needed.
It's good.
I found the point where, with how I play, the OSD is the most usefully touch sensitive and articulate (including cleaning up beautifully with lowered input volume), it makes sustained notes glow, and it fizzes the least.
With these dialed in, I was able to set its volume at unity with my clean sound, and for the first time not feel that the change in spectrum was a loss. Finally, I'm not missing anything, whether switching to or from the OSD.
That's how it is with the OSD into the BDPG. With the OSD into the DD, however, it's as I described it in my first post here, but louder and more resonant. Glowing, soaring!
I'm tired and happy now, with many kinds of bass guitar sounds echoing in my mind.
Goodnight!
Snaxster
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