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Dunwich Amplification General Discussion

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Witchfinder on Reverb (no affiliation) has been up for a good while with no buyer. It's a high price with no offers so I'm not very surprised, but even then most Dunwich pedals are usually gone within hours. I do wonder if the Dunwich hype has receded a bit? New names are certainly taking up more space. Or maybe it's just the January economy hitting people hard. Or maybe prices in these ranges were always completely off.

Anyway I'm still holding on for a Witchfinder. If I'm getting an FZ-2 it's gonna be a good variant and Witchfinder is still the only one that ticks my boxes.
 
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YawningJorin said:
Witchfinder on Reverb (no affiliation) has been up for a good while with no buyer. It's a high price with no offers so I'm not very surprised, but even then most Dunwich pedals are usually gone within hours. I do wonder if the Dunwich hype has receded a bit? New names are certainly taking up more space. Or maybe it's just the January economy hitting people hard. Or maybe prices in these ranges were always completely off.

Anyway I'm still holding on for a Witchfinder. If I'm getting an FZ-2 it's gonna be a good variant and Witchfinder is still the only one that ticks my boxes.
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Plenty of stuff has been listed and sold. $760 + tax for a guitar pedal is insane no matter what the pedal is.
 
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cosmicevan said:
Plenty of stuff has been listed and sold. $760 + tax for a guitar pedal is insane no matter what the pedal is.
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Oh I do forget US pricing with regards to taxes. I thought it was about $600. Which is a lot, but I could maybe see someone shelling out that much for it.

Matt Dean said:
No matter how hyped a pedal is, not worth $721.06 IMO.

edit: I will pay a reasonable premium for something I want bad enough and is hard to get, but not more than 50-100 bucks. 500 over original retail, no.
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Clearly you do not own a Klon :^)
 
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YawningJorin said:
Oh I do forget US pricing with regards to taxes. I thought it was about $600. Which is a lot, but I could maybe see someone shelling out that much for it.


Clearly you do not own a Klon :^)
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No I don't... I forgot about Klon madness, but then I'm a bass player. Maybe I am out of touch with used and rare pedal market, but I still find it crazy to pay so much for a goo filled circuit.
 
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Matt Dean said:
No I don't... I forgot about Klon madness, but then I'm a bass player. Maybe I am out of touch with used and rare pedal market, but I still find it crazy to pay so much for a goo filled circuit.
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There is like one pedal I'd pay those kinds of prices for, that being a Dunwich Doomfinder, but that really is it and even then it's a stretch because it can pretty much be emulated with a Meatbox (I have one), a switcher (I have an ES-8), and a Witchfinder.

At a certain point, these kinds of hobbies just turn into consumerism. I'm guilty of it to an extent. I do collect a few pedals that I think are really cool but I don't use. Where people draw their financial lines varies and as evidenced by the Klon Centaur, that line can be pushed very very far.
 
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johnk_10 said:
both of them have charge pumps so they run on 9V only and are converted to +9 & -9V internally essentially running on 18V.
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Is that the general rule with charge pumps? I thought I remembered seen something about charge pumps being used on Volt Throwers, and those run on 9 or 18 volts and convert to 18 or 36 volts internally. I believe many Dunwich boxes could handle 18v safely, but I don’t have an exhaustive or comprehensive list of the “standard/common” designs, let alone the more limited production designs.
 
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monsterthompson said:
Is that the general rule with charge pumps? I thought I remembered seen something about charge pumps being used on Volt Throwers, and those run on 9 or 18 volts and convert to 18 or 36 volts internally. I believe many Dunwich boxes could handle 18v safely, but I don’t have an exhaustive or comprehensive list of the “standard/common” designs, let alone the more limited production designs.
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the volt thrower uses a charge pump but not to convert it to having a bi-polar supply. if you feed it 9V it converts it to 18V internally, 12V becomes 24V, and when you use 18V it runs the circuit on 36V.
 
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monsterthompson said:
Is that the general rule with charge pumps? I thought I remembered seen something about charge pumps being used on Volt Throwers, and those run on 9 or 18 volts and convert to 18 or 36 volts internally. I believe many Dunwich boxes could handle 18v safely, but I don’t have an exhaustive or comprehensive list of the “standard/common” designs, let alone the more limited production designs.
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I wish there was a master list of what each Dunwich pedal can take power wise. Digging through years of TB posts is not fun. I still don’t know if I can feed my Shalashaska, 125b Wizard Fuzz and Sunn Beta Bass anything above 9V.
 
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