Went from all boutique to mostly Boss

[01010111]

*fart noise*

[MechaGodzilla]

*fart noise*

Which batch-made boutique oscillating fuzz pedal are you using for that?

[penelope tree]

I've always got the impression that a lot of people on this forum primarily buy boutique pedals either for aesthetic reasons or because they want to support the broader community/scene. Perhaps there can be a political dimension too. There are also some more adventurous noise-orientated effects that still can't be approximated with pedals from Boss, MXR, etc. EHX and Digitech/DOD are increasingly encroaching on boutique territory though.

I actually like the more utilitarian design of Boss pedals and I'm also a fan of Guyatone, DOD, Yamaha, Zoom, etc. The idea of making quite subversive music with the products of large corporations has a certain romance too, I think.

[worra]

why would you make music? music fucking sucks.

And yeah, this dude definitely sounds like he belongs at /The_Donald

[BossMann73]

It's not about fun man, it's about brands, BRANDS! Do you even brandbro? You gotta brand yourself before you band yourself, duh.

But seriously I dig some Boss pedals, I have an HM-2 and a Boss MIXER ffs. But I wouldn't do only Baws pedals just to like prove a point, though to each its own, just buy whatever you can afford and use I guess. And what the fuck is with the knee-jerk reaction to music that doesn't conform to whatever rigid definition you have, B-mann? That's lame dude. Although to your defense I know a guy also born in '73 (if that's indeed your vintage) and he also has similar attitudes about weird music. AND likes old boss pedals yes, but get this, he also loves that Basic Audio muff I sold him and doesn't even hate me for having more pedals than him.

Cool post. Thanks. Hey, you got my vintage right, although that has very little to do with my disdain for noise/shoe/dream/ambient hipster crap. Yes, I do have opinions on musical rights and wrongs (as do the soy boys on this thread who dismiss legends like Deep Purple because they are old). I see this as a good thing though. Besides, I love a lot of new bands, but pretty much just the ones who actually know how to write a song with structure, melody, discernable lyrics and taste no matter which genre.

I guess it all boils down to the fact that I don't subscribe to the theory of "anything goes." To me that shit's a copout and an excuse for lame musicians to justify their existence. One of the reasons it's so hard to find good new music nowadays is because the market is so saturated with soy boy shit written by kidults whose parents believed in "free range kids" and that every temper tantrum showed how "unique" their kids were. Now these kids are saturating the bandwidth with garbage and it's become a real echo chamber.....and not even a good DM-3 echo, but rather a lame boutique modulated one.

[JonnyAngle]

What even is this thread?

[popvulture]

I think the guy is drunk and thinks this is Breitbart.

[tremolo3]

But dude, my neo post-modernism.

[Blackened Soul]

Are we players or are we curators of some tone snob museum?

https://reverb.com/p/boss-sg-1-slow-gea ... fid=560025
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-Boss-SD-1- ... 282b3f967e
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BOSS-Compact-ef ... SwIgNXtVwN
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boss-DM-2-Analo ... SwOgdYqFXW

[BitchPudding]

[Teej212]

and not even a good DM-3 echo, but rather a lame boutique modulated one.

[Antlerface]

Are we players or are we curators of some tone snob museum?

https://reverb.com/p/boss-sg-1-slow-gea ... fid=560025

That is downright dumbfuckery.

[Blackened Soul]

Are we players or are we curators of some tone snob museum?

https://reverb.com/p/boss-sg-1-slow-gea ... fid=560025

That is downright dumbfuckery.

Damn things have held that price for almost 10 years now...

[worra]

Hey, you got my vintage right, although that has very little to do with my disdain for noise/shoe/dream/ambient hipster crap. Yes, I do have opinions on musical rights and wrongs

I think this is where most of us disagree with you on a fundamental level. Music is art, and there's no right or wrong way to do it. There may be some definitions of "correctness" for specific styles or whathaveyou, but on a base level I don't think you can ever say art is good or bad, it's just either to your taste, or it isn't. I'm guessing you're not a fan of abstract art either

[01010111]

Are we players or are we curators of some tone snob museum?

https://reverb.com/p/boss-sg-1-slow-gea ... fid=560025

That is downright dumbfuckery.

Damn things have held that price for almost 10 years now...

So they've actually gone down in real value because of increasing interest rates?

I knew I shouldn't have converted my 401k into SG-1's....