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Fuzzrocious Club - *High Five!*

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Plays_For_Dog said:
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Article on fellow TB'er Mr. Newton. Big shout out to Fuzzrocious. We should all be proud to keep this level of company in our taste in effects.
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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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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.
 
#392
rratajski said:
Our NEW website is active!!
Totally fancy!
Http://www.fuzzrociouspedals.com
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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. :D

Best,

Snaxster
 
#394
rratajski said:
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. ;)
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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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Snaxster said:
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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So just change the word "home" to "pedals"
 
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rratajski said:
So just change the word "home" to "pedals"
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(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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Previously I posted about using an equalizer with my OSD.

Well tonight I found my OSD sound. No equalizer needed.

It's good. :D

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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