UGLIEST GEAR

[Chankgeez]

Hurl and all?

Some people think these are ugly. I kinda want one:

[psychic vampire.]

By hurl do you mean the black and natural Burling? Bc it looks like a crazy wooden imitation of a Sugar Bite Etching, and i kinda love it. Whoops.

[Jwar]

I really like the look of that bass and the guitar.

[gnomethrone]

I really like the look of that bass and the guitar.

yup

[Chankgeez]

By hurl do you mean the black and natural Burling? Bc it looks like a crazy wooden imitation of a Sugar Bite Etching, and i kinda love it. Whoops.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue0UpQBmA5s[/youtube]

[Mudfuzz]

I really like the look of that bass and the guitar.

guitar?

[Chankgeez]

Bass VI

[Mudfuzz]

Bass VI

yes and?

[Jwar]

It's a fucking guitar. Baritone or not, it's a guitar.

[Chankgeez]

Bass VI

yes and?

It has a 30" scale.

[D.o.S.]

Bass VI =/= Baritone guitar

[repoman]

sounds cool yo

[echorec]

That's a lot of assumptions. I'll let Chris from Shoe speak for us:

Yeah, Tom is VERY legit and an excellent person to work with/all around great guy. I think a lot of people probably don't realize that the core of Digitech and DOD is basically a very small group of people who are really passionate about music and effects. No other industry I've worked in has had people who legitimately love their product the way these guys do (of course this is very true in general in the musical instrument industry where basically everyone is a musician and gearhead just like you). Tom has also actually been with Digitech/DOD for a very long time and worked his way up through the ranks.

Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about things that were discontinued. In case you hadn't noticed, Digitech/DOD is releasing an absolute ton of pedals right now and have improved their format for the Digitech pedals a lot. I doubt anyone will get left out in the cold.

Harman actually has 29,000 employees as of 2016. Literally less than 0.1% of that is dedicated to DigiTech/DOD. Tom is very much "the guy" running DigiTech.

I was quite busy when you initially replied to this, but since the thread keeps getting bumped, I feel like responding to this. ----I like your contributions to the board, pd~, but I still think your company's pedals are fugly. I don't know what Tom's reputation has to do with the main theme of the thread. Am I supposed to feel guilty about calling the pedals aesthetically displeasing, just because a nice guy runs the shop? I don't enjoy looking at them, so what? It's not personal. I don't have anything personal against anyone at your company, including major Tom. I just think the artwork could be much better, and the text could be far less difficult to read.

I stand behind my earlier comments. You are a corporation with significant financial backing. You do, in fact, have a large parent company that can bail you out, if you have a bad sales quarter or three (should they feel so inclined). You're not a tiny operation being run out of a garage. Those aren't assumptions. They're facts.

Have a good week, pd~.

[pd~]

I wasn't aiming to make you feel guilty or anything. I just wanted to clarify that our aesthetic isn't voted together by a committee of suits, it's just Tom giving direction to one graphic designer. It's cool if you don't like our stuff; I mentioned in this thread that I actually don't like some it either. But DigiTech has grown significantly since Tom took over, so I'm not complaining.

[rfurtkamp]

Art that someone likes is a bonus. Art isn't an absolute dealbreaker for most as well.

Hell, I have three guitars of thirteen where I actually *like* the color. Most of the time it was picking the lesser of evils.