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so he rips off the CB from the Madbean, then sells it to Boss?
Shame they didn't collaborate with MI Audio.
Or Marshall, I guess...
I love marketing...
In 6 months when the s/h market is flooded with em, like it was with the 5150 pedal, the BE-OD etc etc.
Anyway, I watched the PMT demo of this pedal and it sounded like a wet fart in a blanket so not feeling the love yet although the various options are quite clever.
It just seems that JHS get all of the hate when companies like Analogman get away with it.
It wasn't so much that jhs copied other pedals as the way they did it (using madbean layouts - which should be copyright protected as artwork iirc), and the lies they used to cover it up, coupled with (at the time) very shoddy workmanship, high failure rate and a very high asking price.
They're a different company now. I don't know that I'd bother with them (after all, there are lots of genuinely fantastic hand builders with a cleaner history) but some folk are happy to leave the past in the past.
There are plenty of others that are well deserving of ire. Most are known about; Lovepedal would be next in line for doing things that rub me the wrong way (flowery marketing BS over what is a completely boggo/someone else's circuit built in very half-arsed manner). But there are plenty others. Vertex and Freakish Blues probably took the JHS methodology of selling someone else's work as their own to the next level. They got caught though so everyone knows about those. Veranum or whatever the fuck they're called, another stick it in a fancy box, say how you took four years honing the circuit (it was something like that) when you actually took a timmy and replaced a single resistor with a variable resistor... There are plenty of others.
LOADS of boutique pedals take an existing circuit and modify it slightly. It's very rare to get anything radically new and different these days certainly commercially. There are only so many ways you can do an op-amp/fet-based OD. Now if you're upfront about this, I have absolutely no problem with it. When you try and pass it off as all your own work and yourself a wunderkind innovator, then you're deserving of being on the receiving end of some shit.
Boss should've done a collab with Marshall instead.
Very interesting Boss are doing a design collab; i wonder if they intend to do several - in order to refresh the Boss brand.
Shame the collab was with jhs.
Shame they paired these two pedals. it sounds sludgy to me.
What use is a high gain distortion with only one one tone control?
Not interested.
This pedal has a BJ mode.
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