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You can buy a Mosky TS9 type that's probably made in a similar fashion to the LG DVD player you mention for £25. If you want one, hand made with through hole components it'll be upwards of £60+ (thinking of Dope FX and other smaller boutique guys).
I guarantee the DopeFX one will still be usable in 25 years though, when the Mosky and the LG will be landfill. That's also another problem with racing to make/buy the cheapest version of something, it becomes a throwaway item and is slowly ruining the planet. We're all guilty of it, but we need to change tack sooner rather than later.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
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The cheap one might not last forever, although I have a Mooer pedal on my board that is 10 years old and works as well as the day I bought it.
I would say decent gear has never been more affordable. But if people want the bespoke rare handmade boutique pedals, then of course you will pay a fortune.
And where are most of these components made? China lol. So disregard where the actual gear is made. Most of the time its irrelevant when talking about longevity. It's only relevant when talking about price.
This idea of you can have everything for cheap is demonstrably not true, a cheaper pedal will have corners cut somewhere, it's just economics. Some things just cost more, and occasionally for good reasons.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
£257 is his current price (not his fault he's in the US and we pay import, but if your stateside that's the cost), which I actually think isn't unreasonable all things considered. He could scale things down or contract it out and make it cheaper like, but for what it is, it's a good price I think.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
There does not necessarily need to be corners cut to make something cheaper. A factory in Taiwan can setup a run of pedals with modern technology and cheap labour, and economy of scale. And they can produce a similar circuit as in a handmade pedal by someone in the USA, just without hand soldering and a fancy paint job.
There will be a place for boutique pedals. But the choice for skinflints has surely never been better?
Yes, you can splurge stupid amounts of money on hand-crafted 'boutique' amps and fx but there is currently a 100+ post thread in the guitar channel 'Theres never been a better time to be a guitar player' which is the exact opposite of this thread. The quality of equipment you can get for low cost now is a world away from what was accessible when I started out.
Be it guitars, amps, pedals - you can get far more gig-able kit at the budget end of the price range now than at any time previously (well, ok...it was even better before brexit....)
no R&D required, it was all done 60 years ago ….
https://imgur.com/gallery/WYnJhMK