I know you are the same way, so I don’t feel too bad, but isn’t it a bit insane how many times we’ve bought, sold, and rebought the same pedals over the years? Multiple times for me on many of them. And guitars too! Ha!
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This isn’t some kind of metaphor
Goddamn this is real
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I’m guilty of this too. I’ve literally bought THE SAME EXACT guitar back from someone, only to remember why I sold it in the first place afterwards.i love sharin foo wrote: ↑ isn’t it a bit insane how many times we’ve bought, sold, and rebought the same pedals over the years? Multiple times for me on many of them. And guitars too! Ha!
The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.
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Oh my god, it is criminally embarrassing how many times I have bought and sold particular pedals.
At least 4 Fuzz Factories all 2000 or before, 4 Loop Junkys, 3-4 SD 2-In1s, 3 Octanes (including a very early Octane 1 - probably one of the first ZVex pedals ever made), many Wah Probes...god, 3 Machines, 3 Seek Trems...it goes on and on...that's just the ZVex...then there's the Maxon AD-900...I think I am on my 4th...3rd at least Boss RV2...and these are just the ones I can remember right away!
At least 4 Fuzz Factories all 2000 or before, 4 Loop Junkys, 3-4 SD 2-In1s, 3 Octanes (including a very early Octane 1 - probably one of the first ZVex pedals ever made), many Wah Probes...god, 3 Machines, 3 Seek Trems...it goes on and on...that's just the ZVex...then there's the Maxon AD-900...I think I am on my 4th...3rd at least Boss RV2...and these are just the ones I can remember right away!
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Why does this discussion make me feel like I have a problem in never selling any of my hundreds of pedals?
Off topic, but while we're discussing Zvex -
I have an almost complete collection of Myrold painted models. I met Jason when I lived in Minneapolis and had bought one of his blood paintings, so it's as much about his work as it is the functionality of the pedals. I'm just missing a nano amp. I managed to find a Machine from 1998 with almost no paint job (done before the design we all know) and a very odd (and amazing sounding) reverse Fuzz Factory...also from 1998...that I emailed Zach about to make sure it wasn't a fake. He vouched for it's authenticity.
I've had a Fuzz Probe for 15 years and I still don't get along with the damn thing.
Off topic, but while we're discussing Zvex -
I have an almost complete collection of Myrold painted models. I met Jason when I lived in Minneapolis and had bought one of his blood paintings, so it's as much about his work as it is the functionality of the pedals. I'm just missing a nano amp. I managed to find a Machine from 1998 with almost no paint job (done before the design we all know) and a very odd (and amazing sounding) reverse Fuzz Factory...also from 1998...that I emailed Zach about to make sure it wasn't a fake. He vouched for it's authenticity.
I've had a Fuzz Probe for 15 years and I still don't get along with the damn thing.
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Very cool!!ryland wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 2:50 pmWhy does this discussion make me feel like I have a problem in never selling any of my hundreds of pedals?
Off topic, but while we're discussing Zvex -
I have an almost complete collection of Myrold painted models. I met Jason when I lived in Minneapolis and had bought one of his blood paintings, so it's as much about his work as it is the functionality of the pedals. I'm just missing a nano amp. I managed to find a Machine from 1998 with almost no paint job (done before the design we all know) and a very odd (and amazing sounding) reverse Fuzz Factory...also from 1998...that I emailed Zach about to make sure it wasn't a fake. He vouched for it's authenticity.
I've had a Fuzz Probe for 15 years and I still don't get along with the damn thing.
I too had a very early Machine, mine had the minimalist graphics:
compared to a newer one with the standard graphics (which I also had a the same time) they were pretty much identical to my ear...just sounded like chaos in a box!
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I've never owned a Zvex but I like the sounds people get from them (like Low, not like Muse)
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They are great pedals...can be temperamental sometimes, but I find them quite inspiring.
I've been a fanboy for decades now...I have literally owned dozens and dozens of them since the early 2000s.
I've been a fanboy for decades now...I have literally owned dozens and dozens of them since the early 2000s.
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Oh yeah, that's the Machine graphic I have. I've found that a Machine is a Machine, I've even built clones and they all sound the same! Love the early Octane.zhivago wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:38 pmVery cool!!ryland wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 2:50 pmWhy does this discussion make me feel like I have a problem in never selling any of my hundreds of pedals?
Off topic, but while we're discussing Zvex -
I have an almost complete collection of Myrold painted models. I met Jason when I lived in Minneapolis and had bought one of his blood paintings, so it's as much about his work as it is the functionality of the pedals. I'm just missing a nano amp. I managed to find a Machine from 1998 with almost no paint job (done before the design we all know) and a very odd (and amazing sounding) reverse Fuzz Factory...also from 1998...that I emailed Zach about to make sure it wasn't a fake. He vouched for it's authenticity.
I've had a Fuzz Probe for 15 years and I still don't get along with the damn thing.
I too had a very early Machine, mine had the minimalist graphics:
compared to a newer one with the standard graphics (which I also had a the same time) they were pretty much identical to my ear...just sounded like chaos in a box!
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I just plugged in my Freakshow FX Brown Rabbit (Rat Clone) in today, and well, that won me over quickly. It sounded like crap through my Vox and my Ampeg, but my Marshall Origin 20? Hellllll yeah. I was playing the Ric 330 through it and it was just killer.
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Oh man, I forgot about Freakshow FX!
A Rat into a Marshall is pretty much what the pedal was designed for - it's no surprise it sounds righteous.
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I had an original Brown Rabbit and a Digilog Delay that I sold at some point, because I'm an idiot probably. He's been making some new ones recently and I got a blem version for $120. It's not hand painted or anything like the old ones, in fact, it just has a sticker on it, but it sounds fantastic.
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I nearly bought one of the baby blue hand painted Rabbits back in the day. I saw one sell for over £300 not that long agoJonesie wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 12:55 pmI had an original Brown Rabbit and a Digilog Delay that I sold at some point, because I'm an idiot probably. He's been making some new ones recently and I got a blem version for $120. It's not hand painted or anything like the old ones, in fact, it just has a sticker on it, but it sounds fantastic.
God to know he's back, his pedals were highly regarded during that era.
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All these Zvex pedals are making me wish I tried more. I once owned a Mastotron and I think it was the wrong one to get judging by this photo. Way too wooly. I bought it blindly and it was my first ever fuzz. It didn’t sound bad for certain applications but it just wasn’t my style.
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Definitely check some out if you get a chance...the Myrold era early stuff is getting a bit harder to find, but the later Bennett era onwards stuff is plentiful.Unicorn Warrior wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:01 pmAll these Zvex pedals are making me wish I tried more. I once owned a Mastotron and I think it was the wrong one to get judging by this photo. Way too wooly. I bought it blindly and it was my first ever fuzz. It didn’t sound bad for certain applications but it just wasn’t my style.
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