How do you launch a pedal?



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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby UglyCasanova » Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:02 am

I only have a little under 1k subscribers, but I'd demo the crap out of your stuff. I can even send it back to you if you'd like. I just like to demo shit. :lol:

My channel name is UglyCasanova if you want to check it out. My subscribers like weird gear so that should be good for you. PM me if you're up for it. :hello::
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby sylnau » Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:29 pm

UC is also very popular on TGP. ;)
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Seriously, his demos are great! It would be interesting to hear his take on your pedals.
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby UglyCasanova » Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:39 am

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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby raj007 » Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:12 am

UglyCasanova wrote:I only have a little under 1k subscribers, but I'd demo the crap out of your stuff. I can even send it back to you if you'd like. I just like to demo shit. :lol:

My channel name is UglyCasanova if you want to check it out. My subscribers like weird gear so that should be good for you. PM me if you're up for it. :hello::


So here's how it went for me...Vidret mentions Ezhi and Aka and Pladask Elektrisk in a thread. I'd never heard of them. First thing I did was check to see if UglyCasanova had demos for them and sure enough he did. Since then, I went on a quest to buy Ezhi and Aka and I also recently purchased a Pladask Romferd as well...

For me, UC, Kayzer, Magpie, Rectal Hygenist , etc are who I go to first because they often feature the "weird stuff" and they do a fantastic job with em.

And it's led to me spending money haha.
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby D-Rainger » Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:18 am

I think I've discovered something else about pedal launching; send out press releases!
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby Chankgeez » Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:20 am

:lol: Yes, important.
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby D-Rainger » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:04 am

I'm slowly learning about what to put effort into....

Press releases; yes!

Making a 10 x size Dr Freakenstein Fuzz pedal; not so much...
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby coldbrightsunlight » Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:51 am

I saw the photos and that was pretty great though
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby D-Rainger » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:09 am

Thanks!!! :thumb:
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby hotknife » Wed Apr 19, 2017 6:38 pm

D-Rainger on dat Knobs hype. Go go go! :!!!:
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby Seance » Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:20 am

Not having any real knowledge or first-hand experience, but having plenty of opinions...
I would imagine that hooking into the influential demo-dudes is probably a cost-effective
way to launch a new pedal. The only "wrong ways" to launch a pedal might perhaps
involve spending too much in a diffused and unfocused way using ineffective methods, or
to avoid making any effort at all (i.e. build perfect pedal—tell no one).

A tourbox and other forum-dwelling activities are probably good ways to slow-grow a user-base in a
mostly nebulous, hard to quantify way. Lots of people do research on pedal purchases
and "lurk" and soak up ideas/impressions/notions/feelings without even posting anything
themselves. So a tourbox could possibly create a small pool of goodwill as individuals use
pedals in their own personal way (certain forums are more shaded towards a certain user type,
but even still, different folks stomp pedals different, and use different gear for different sounds).
And then that pool sort of ripples out into other streams of influence and then into a river of
fuzz.

Bottom line: the Knobs video was good. I enjoyed it.
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby neonblack » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:11 pm

Also got the Reinhardt bump on Pedalsandeffects. Freakenstein sounded gnarly on that fuzz wars episode.

Also the Echo-X is a genius idea in a tiny format and I WANT IT BAD.
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby D-Rainger » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:17 pm

hotknife wrote:D-Rainger on dat Knobs hype. Go go go! :!!!:

Yay! :!!!: :thumb:
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby D-Rainger » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:18 pm

Seance wrote:Not having any real knowledge or first-hand experience, but having plenty of opinions...
I would imagine that hooking into the influential demo-dudes is probably a cost-effective
way to launch a new pedal. The only "wrong ways" to launch a pedal might perhaps
involve spending too much in a diffused and unfocused way using ineffective methods, or
to avoid making any effort at all (i.e. build perfect pedal—tell no one).

A tourbox and other forum-dwelling activities are probably good ways to slow-grow a user-base in a
mostly nebulous, hard to quantify way. Lots of people do research on pedal purchases
and "lurk" and soak up ideas/impressions/notions/feelings without even posting anything
themselves. So a tourbox could possibly create a small pool of goodwill as individuals use
pedals in their own personal way (certain forums are more shaded towards a certain user type,
but even still, different folks stomp pedals different, and use different gear for different sounds).
And then that pool sort of ripples out into other streams of influence and then into a river of
fuzz.

Bottom line: the Knobs video was good. I enjoyed it.

Thanks! Interesting stuff.... A tourbox is a weird idea, but maybe good...
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Re: How do you launch a pedal?

Postby D-Rainger » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:21 pm

neonblack wrote:Also got the Reinhardt bump on Pedalsandeffects. Freakenstein sounded gnarly on that fuzz wars episode.

Also the Echo-X is a genius idea in a tiny format and I WANT IT BAD.


Thanks!
Yeh - I play in a one guitar band, and don't know how I got by without the Echo-X! All kinds of dubby oscillations take the pressure off, while I can just play rhythm or whatever underneath....
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