Malekko... FINALLY!

[RCCollins]

This new Malekko Spring Chicken Limited Edition Reverb takes the killer tones we loved in the original guitar pedal and adds a dwell knob. If you were stoked to pay $150 for the original single-mode, off-the-shelf Korean digital reverb unit in a shiny box with a picture of a chicken on it, you're REALLY gonna be thrilled to BUY IT AGAIN with a limited edition feature that finally begins to make it almost interesting!

meanwhile, the pedals you want are indefinitely postponed

[nad]

Well, I LOL'd.

[Joe Gress]

Hey, at least it's got a chicken on it right?

[TheMutt]

Meh. Get an RV-7. Stop buying these things so that he can get back to not working on the Plaster Caster...

[bongomania]

Brrr... it's cold in here!

[RCCollins]

I've owned a couple Malekko products and they were both wicked cool. and Josh is great to deal with too.

But when I saw this Spring Chicken LE, i was like puh-leeze

[Joe Gress]

Originally Posted by RCCollins

I've owned a couple Malekko products and they were both wicked cool. and Josh is great to deal with too.

But when I saw this Spring Chicken LE, i was like puh-leeze

Hate to say it, but +1.

Come on Josh, get on with it.

[bigchiefbc]

Originally Posted by RCCollins

I've owned a couple Malekko products and they were both wicked cool. and Josh is great to deal with too.

But when I saw this Spring Chicken LE, i was like puh-leeze

I'm sure it was just a trivial mod to the Spring Chicken, so I seriously doubt that this pushed back any other products. Plus, with the 616 and 919 seemingly ready for release, I think its kinda sh***y to start bad-mouthing him. I'm sure the plaster caster is low on priorities for Josh, because quite frankly, a bass-oriented bit crusher is for a niche market (and a tiny one at that) and he won't move anywhere near the amount of units as he will with the Spring Chicken, the delays, or the B:assmaster even.

[RCCollins]

as we have all seen here, it is NOT an easy business, and the Malekko projects we're all waiting for are pretty darn ambitious. I hope he pulls all of them off.

But the spring chicken? gimme a break dude

Originally Posted by bigchiefbc

I'm sure it was just a trivial mod to the Spring Chicken, so I seriously doubt that this pushed back any other products. Plus, with the 616 and 919 seemingly ready for release, I think its kinda sh***y to start bad-mouthing him. I'm sure the plaster caster is low on priorities for Josh, because quite frankly, a bass-oriented bit crusher is for a niche market (and a tiny one at that) and he won't move anywhere near the amount of units as he will with the Spring Chicken, the delays, or the B:assmaster even.

Great, that's the same excuse major manufacturers use.

The Spring Chicken might move a lot of units but guess what? It's an overpriced single-mode reverb that should have included the LE mod in the first place. In the long run, it is not going to help Malekko's reputation to compete with the major manufacturers in a niche where they can't REALLY compete

[bigchiefbc]

Originally Posted by RCCollins

Great, that's the same excuse major manufacturers use.

The Spring Chicken might move a lot of units but guess what? It's an overpriced single-mode reverb that should have included the LE mod in the first place. In the long run, it is not going to help Malekko's reputation to compete with the major manufacturers in a niche where they can't REALLY compete

That's all well and good, but the man does have to put food on the table. And from my conversations with all of the builders over at ilovefuzz.com (including Josh), their margins are fleetingly thin. I don't begrudge any boutique builder putting out a broad-based unit-shifter every now and then.

[whoatherechunk]

mehhhhhh

[RCCollins]

Originally Posted by bigchiefbc

That's all well and good, but the man does have to put food on the table. And from my conversations with all of the builders over at ilovefuzz.com (including Josh), their margins are fleetingly thin. I don't begrudge any boutique builder putting out a broad-based unit-shifter every now and then.

i'm sure more of US would buy Malekko stuff if he kept making interesting stuff.

As for the mass market, there can't be THAT big a market for single mode reverbs with the hardwire already out, a new Boss unit coming, expanded grail and cathedral from ehx, and the list goes on

the Oscillation in the LE version is really the only thing the chicken has going for it IMO, and if I had bought the original, I'd feel cheated by this one. Also, underwhelming. Hence this silly prank thread

[bigchiefbc]

Originally Posted by RCCollins

i'm sure more of US would buy Malekko stuff if he kept making interesting stuff.

As for the mass market, there can't be THAT big a market for single mode reverbs with the hardwire already out, a new Boss unit coming, expanded grail and cathedral from ehx, and the list goes on

the Oscillation in the LE version is really the only thing the chicken has going for it IMO, and if I had bought the original, I'd feel cheated by this one. Also, underwhelming. Hence this silly prank thread

Well, judging by by posts at HCFX, which has orders of magnitude more people than this forum, the spring chicken seems to be getting a lot of love.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be some gushing fanboy here. I don't own a single Malekko product. But Josh is a good guy, and he's released two products already that get rave reviews around here (the Echos and the B:assmaster), so I find it weird that there's been several posts lately in multiple threads busting his chops.

[emjazz]

...you see, you never know. This actually piqued my interest in the pedal. I just emailed proguitarshop about when they may be getting more....looks like just what I'm looking for...thanks gents!

[FreaqyFrequency]

I doubt chop-busting would be an issue if Josh hadn't made a lot of claims that have yet to see the stage beyond conception, and that he has given us very few, if any, updates since before the dawn of the 919 and 616.

I'm not saying in any manner of speaking that no builder should be creative and conceive such fascinating ideas; I think I speak for a majority of us when I say we simply ask that he not swing the bone in front of the dog and then never throw it, or tell us why he isn't throwing it.

[RCCollins]

Originally Posted by emjazz

...you see, you never know. This actually piqued my interest in the pedal. I just emailed proguitarshop about when they may be getting more....looks like just what I'm looking for...thanks gents!

get the hardwire instead. it has a bunch of other reverb models. spring chicken does ONE trick

[My name is Mudd]

Here's me dragging this dangerously close to the off-topic ledge and quoting myself and dragging in a different thread, all at the same time...and on Friday, no less.

Originally Posted by bigchiefbc

...their margins are fleetingly thin.

Originally Posted by Me, over in the different-price-level OD thread

Every now and then, I kinda wonder if stuff like [the BJFE Blueberry] is intentionally priced wacky in the hope that it becomes coveted ("...if it's that much, it must be friggin' AWESOME...")...

So anyway, I do understand margins (especially thin ones...welcome to high-end bicycles) and I'm very familiar with small-scale production (especially hand-built) and/but I cannot believe that there is that much relative cost involved in a producing a (fill-in-the-blank) pedal. I understand that the builders aren't trotting down to Radio Shack for their components, and admittedly hand-built is usually always costlier (I'm thinking of the hand-painted boxes as an example), but still...unless they have to hand-draw each and every circuit board one at a time in gold leaf or something, I truly do not get it. If a pedal retails for, say $300 and the margin on it is say, about 21%, just where does the cost end and the free profit begin?

Note that I'm not complaining, I'm just commenting, based on my own hand-built experience.

[nad]

You dudes are harsh. I'm pretty sure geeeeeeetarists eat them Spring Chickens up like hot... chicken.

[5stringwonder]

man...I clicked on this thread thinking the 616 or 919 were finally out....

[Bryan R. Tyler]

I thought it was going to be the Holley Erectus.