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All Tube Chorus pedal hunt...

#48
those Effectrode pedals are sick expenisve. I'm a lover off all things tube and a few extra tubes here and there cant hurt. but im definitely not gonna spend 450 bucks on a chorus pedal. i cant imagine that much money being required to all the research and engineering by anyone for anything on that site. pretty sure a single individual with even moderate knowledge of electrical engineering and access to the internet could make any single thing from scratch on that website for a fraction of the retail price of one of those pedals. lets be honest with ourselves cuz tubes, resistors/caps and wire are super cheap.

that being said i would have all my pedals built with tubes whether it really did anything to my sound or not, its just fun to be eccentric sometimes.
 
#50
Wow, I'm gone for a week and suddenly there's a thread!

MysticBoo, as far as bassist sounds go, Paul Raven's sound from the early Killing Joke records is, to me, what the bass is supposed to sound like (not that I don't adore Youth's work on the earlier material). I'm totally willing to grab an analog pedal if it's true bypass and not a static-y mess. Really, I'm just after a deep underwater sound. Since I'm the prime soundmaker in my band, Using a solid guitar chorus wouldn't bother me; and since I'm running two rigs, really having two great sounding choruses running separately for different sounds (assuming they're each not terribly expensive) isn't out of the question.

I love the sound of the other Effectrode pedals I've heard, and my Acoustic is solid state, and I've been thinking warming up the sound a little bit couldn't hurt things, hence the chorus pedal as a tube preamp/chorus in one. Now that I know more about the physics of the effect, I can appreciate the pedal for different reasons, but I'm certainly not married to it.
 
#51
fender_mod said:
those Effectrode pedals are sick expenisve. I'm a lover off all things tube and a few extra tubes here and there cant hurt. but im definitely not gonna spend 450 bucks on a chorus pedal. i cant imagine that much money being required to all the research and engineering by anyone for anything on that site. pretty sure a single individual with even moderate knowledge of electrical engineering and access to the internet could make any single thing from scratch on that website for a fraction of the retail price of one of those pedals. lets be honest with ourselves cuz tubes, resistors/caps and wire are super cheap.

that being said i would have all my pedals built with tubes whether it really did anything to my sound or not, its just fun to be eccentric sometimes.
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Hello,

The price of utilizing good quality parts dictates the final price of the pedal. Tubes cost a minimum of $12 each, then there's porcelain sockets and high voltage power supply parts. The chrome nudge bars are spendy too at $5 each. Also, I use Vishay resistors with silver/palladium contacts, and polyester caps in the signal path which are several times the price of lower quality components.

Finally, I build pedals in small quantities, and there are tooling costs for making silkscreens, drilling holes and get proper fibre glass circuit boards manufactured with plated through holes and solder resist

I hope this explains why my pedals are more expensive than transistorized and mass produced pedals.

Phil Taylor
 
#52
Acquistapace said:
Wow, I'm gone for a week and suddenly there's a thread!

MysticBoo, as far as bassist sounds go, Paul Raven's sound from the early Killing Joke records is, to me, what the bass is supposed to sound like (not that I don't adore Youth's work on the earlier material). I'm totally willing to grab an analog pedal if it's true bypass and not a static-y mess. Really, I'm just after a deep underwater sound. Since I'm the prime soundmaker in my band, Using a solid guitar chorus wouldn't bother me; and since I'm running two rigs, really having two great sounding choruses running separately for different sounds (assuming they're each not terribly expensive) isn't out of the question.

I love the sound of the other Effectrode pedals I've heard, and my Acoustic is solid state, and I've been thinking warming up the sound a little bit couldn't hurt things, hence the chorus pedal as a tube preamp/chorus in one. Now that I know more about the physics of the effect, I can appreciate the pedal for different reasons, but I'm certainly not married to it.
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i'd look up the (Digitech) Hardwire CR-7. if your running two rigs, and want chorus in both, it has dual outputs. plus its got a WIDE variety of chorus for your pleasure :P
 

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