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Just curious. Don't buy any pedals based solely on cosmetics.

I really hope not......

dorfmeister wrote:Don't buy any pedals based solely on cosmetics.

why not?
everyone likes a pretty picture right?

I've had some diff ideas for a specific pedal or two, not sure I'd call them steampunk.

I almost made a totally steampuncked-out pedal. The whole thing clad in copper with rivets, copper pipes soldered around the pedal, valve heads and gears for knobs, etc.

Oh it would have been grand, but after about 3 hours of digging for parts, I got bored of the idea.

McSpunckle wrote:I almost made a totally steampuncked-out pedal. The whole thing clad in copper with rivets, copper pipes soldered around the pedal, valve heads and gears for knobs, etc.

Oh it would have been grand, but after about 3 hours of digging for parts, I got bored of the idea.

ur so not steam punk..

More tubing! That SS/BS delay is steam punk as hell!

contact this dude Slade:
<schumannelectronics@gmail.com>

Spot on

phantasmagorovich wrote:
contact this dude Slade:
<schumannelectronics@gmail.com>

I see that, what you did there

dorfmeister wrote:Don't buy any pedals based solely on cosmetics.

...........I got into fuzz in the first place because of how cool a pedal looked....and I've never used a pedal I thought was ugly, regardless of how beastly sounding it might be

phantasmagorovich wrote:

contact this dude Slade:
<schumannelectronics@gmail.com>

I like how this implies the SP vibe but isn't totally over the top about it. He isn't building any more though, right?

dorfmeister wrote:

phantasmagorovich wrote:

contact this dude Slade:
<schumannelectronics@gmail.com>

I like how this implies the SP vibe but isn't totally over the top about it. He isn't building any more though, right?

Sorry, didn't mean to leave you out on the joke.
No, by all we know he isn't building them anymore and his stuff goes for insane prices used. I THINK the last time a PLL with the drone supplement like pictured was sold on the bay it went for 4 grand.
Sometime around a year ago there was this dude called Slade who sent mails claiming he represented Bob (?) Schumann, the builder of these things and that they were working on re-issues and new stuff. But nothing really happened but him bitching how some unnamed company ripped off Schumann's design. From all I know he was probably referring to Snazzy FX, cause one of their huge boxes uses the same technology as the Schumann. That technology on the other hand is just some basic stuff that you can look up in electronics books - phase locked loops (hence PLL). Since then a couple of more pedals using the pll technology have come up and someone seems to be working on a direct clone of the Schumann. Nothing has been heard of Slade.

Slade sounds like an imposter..

phantasmagorovich wrote:

dorfmeister wrote:

phantasmagorovich wrote:

contact this dude Slade:
<schumannelectronics@gmail.com>

I like how this implies the SP vibe but isn't totally over the top about it. He isn't building any more though, right?

Sorry, didn't mean to leave you out on the joke.
No, by all we know he isn't building them anymore and his stuff goes for insane prices used. I THINK the last time a PLL with the drone supplement like pictured was sold on the bay it went for 4 grand.
Sometime around a year ago there was this dude called Slade who sent mails claiming he represented Bob (?) Schumann, the builder of these things and that they were working on re-issues and new stuff. But nothing really happened but him bitching how some unnamed company ripped off Schumann's design. From all I know he was probably referring to Snazzy FX, cause one of their huge boxes uses the same technology as the Schumann. That technology on the other hand is just some basic stuff that you can look up in electronics books - phase locked loops (hence PLL). Since then a couple of more pedals using the pll technology have come up and someone seems to be working on a direct clone of the Schumann. Nothing has been heard of Slade.

I've got a Snazzy FX Mini-Ark which is suppose is the pedal using the phase locked loop tech. Nice pedal but I keep wondering if a Pitchfactor would serve me better.