Hey there, it's Andy with...Reverb.com?

[UglyCasanova]

As always, play ‘til your fingers bleed,

Sick Andy burn.

[Invisible Man]

The end of an era of kinda lame videos. Andy seems cool, but PGS was stuck in a early web design. Mobile was garbage (or st least it was last time I was there a couple years ago).

Say what you will about Reverb, they’ve gotten pretty slick.

[MechaGodzilla]

Andy's videos are not good demos, they're good adverts, but he is a sick fucking player.

[Shalabama]

So a retailer goes out of business. Big fuckin whoop. Pretty obvious that the musical gear world is in the toilet right now and of course retailers will feel the hit sooner than most. Why the hell are we supposed to treat this like some relative died or something? Eff tone report, eff PGS, eff all these people.

[UglyCasanova]

Watch out, guys, we've got a bad-ass over here.

[Chankgeez]

Big fuckin whoop.

Eff tone report, eff PGS, eff all these people.

Why the change from "fuckin'" to "eff"?

[goroth]

Why is the gear world in the toilet?

There had never been so much variety with pedals, and even factories in Indonesia are putting out really nicely playing guitars for small money.



And as for big whoop - pgs supported a lot of ilf builders back in the day, and their demos single-handedly created a format of demo that was pretty much unchallenged until everything got knobs'd.

[Psyre]

So a retailer goes out of business. Big fuckin whoop. Pretty obvious that the musical gear world is in the toilet right now and of course retailers will feel the hit sooner than most. Why the hell are we supposed to treat this like some relative died or something? Eff tone report, eff PGS, eff all these people.

Silly post, that I agree with except for "musical gear world in the toilet" bit.

There has never been more great AND affordable gear. There are multiple options for every gear desire. Synth systems that only universities and major label studios could consider having, have now entered the homes of our poor ass's.

The issue I have with the "musical gear world" is the video world. Can't say I've watched a PGS video within the past 3+years. Can't thing of a pedal demo person who's made me want to buy a pedal. And don't even get me started on the trade show videos. We've entered a time where boutique builders are making attempts at stardom and many are now trying to fit in innapropriate "rig rundown" type videos. Reverb's trade show videos are the worst. Reverb's Syntax Error trade show vid was probably the most uncomfortable video I've seen since seeing some of that Elmo documentary that made me swear that dude was a pedo, only to find out 6 months later I was right.

Despite rejecting the claim that the equipment world is in the toilet, I would strongly support the claim that the equipment industry's Web presence has already been flushed.

[weebles]

Well that’s one way of looking at things.

[Shalabama]

So a retailer goes out of business. Big fuckin whoop. Pretty obvious that the musical gear world is in the toilet right now and of course retailers will feel the hit sooner than most. Why the hell are we supposed to treat this like some relative died or something? Eff tone report, eff PGS, eff all these people.

Silly post, that I agree with except for "musical gear world in the toilet" bit.

There has never been more great AND affordable gear. There are multiple options for every gear desire. Synth systems that only universities and major label studios could consider having, have now entered the homes of our poor ass's.

The issue I have with the "musical gear world" is the video world. Can't say I've watched a PGS video within the past 3+years. Can't thing of a pedal demo person who's made me want to buy a pedal. And don't even get me started on the trade show videos. We've entered a time where boutique builders are making attempts at stardom and many are now trying to fit in innapropriate "rig rundown" type videos. Reverb's trade show videos are the worst. Reverb's Syntax Error trade show vid was probably the most uncomfortable video I've seen since seeing some of that Elmo documentary that made me swear that dude was a pedo, only to find out 6 months later I was right.

Despite rejecting the claim that the equipment world is in the toilet, I would strongly support the claim that the equipment industry's Web presence has already been flushed.

Cool post that made me realize I needed to clarify my "toilet" comment. What I meant by that is that no one is buying shit nowadays. Everyone talks smack about how they gotta have this or that, but given how many used pedals are sitting unsold for months at a time, I can;t imagine how bad it is in the retail world, especially for boutique builders. Purely economics. You are right that there has never been a time with cooler gear. I just don't know who's buying it with the frequency to keep these guys in business.

[John Matrix]

And so ends my weekly ritual of entering the Pedal of the Week contest.

[Gone Fission]

And so ends my weekly ritual of entering the Pedal of the Week contest.

This.

[goroth]

Guitar pedal sales are up 16%.

I can't actually remember where I read that, or for what period (I assume last year), so take it with a grain of salt. But yeah.

[Chankgeez]

Guitar pedal sales are up 16%.

Have you been colluding with echorec?

[gringostar]

Between PGS and Prymaxe the wrong site closed down.