ilovefuzz.com

What would you be willing to pay for a full on boutique version of a Tonebender in a nice TC style enclosure with no graphics (gonna custom do it myself, or have someone I know do it).

It's going to have...

Voltage inverter for ac power
Bias adjustment knob
Switchable between Mk 1.5 and Mk 2
Fat switch
Vol, Fuzz, and Tone controls
True bypass

Basically like a Ramble FX Twinbender fucked a Fulltone Soulbender, and had a NOS Mullard germ. and Mallory equipped baby.

I'm thinking the Twinbender goes for $179, the Soulbender for $159, so seeing as this is unfinished maybe $175 with NOS Mullard black glass or gold cap OC44 transistors, Mallory caps, and audiophile qual. signal path?

I'm personally bored to death of boutique clones. There are so many people (fairfield, ss/bs, Infanem) either doing original circuits or using a classic circuit and messing with it until it sounds totally different. When I see muff, tonebender, tubescreamer, etc, I tend to pass it over. Unless you're doing something crazy with the circuit, you're just directly competing with a few hundred other boutique clones.

Just my two cents. Someone else might think this is exactly what they need.

neonblack wrote:I'm personally bored to death of boutique clones. There are so many people (fairfield, ss/bs, Infanem) either doing original circuits or using a classic circuit and messing with it until it sounds totally different. When I see muff, tonebender, tubescreamer, etc, I tend to pass it over. Unless you're doing something crazy with the circuit, you're just directly competing with a few hundred other boutique clones.

Just my two cents. Someone else might think this is exactly what they need.

First off I'm a big JP fanboi, so I really want a Tonebender. But I also want something more flexible, and that can get heavier too.

I hear you on doing things different. I use an original SansAmp as my main boost, and my main OD is a Systech Harmonic Energizer which has a filter from a synth used as tunable parametric eq with a nasty ripping distortion with tons of output. That thing will do endless tunable feedback that can go from window rattling wall shaking whale song to ripping howling yowls to screeching ear-piercing noise. I'm not big on the standard TS808/TS9 style od/boost myself.

I've also got a BAT LSTR that goes back and forth being used for Sovtek like roar with a touch more mids, or with the fuzz off, the volume up high and the mids boosted for a fuzzy/od tone that I stack with other pedals or my amp's high gain channel.

I'm planning on getting an old Ampeg NMV combo or head though sometime in the next month or two, and then I'm going to start getting some vintage fuzz/treble boosters to go with it. Thus this post.

Here's my current board.

The Mad Titan wrote:

Signal chain is...

Guitar > Rocktron Loop 8

Loop 1: SansAmp set as boost
Loop 2: Systech Harmonic Energizer set as beefy OD
Loop 3: Crybaby 535 (non-Q, Hendrix setting)
Loop 4: Danelectro Chilidog (set for octave up/dry blend)
Loop 5: Black Arts Toneworks LSTR (currently set for fuzzy boost/od) >

Mesa Tremoverb input with FX loop send sent back to the Rocktron.

Loop 6 3ms Phaseur Fleur

I take the loop output from Loop 6 and run that to my Gig-FX Chopper and Pigtronix Echo2D which are not hooked up in loops on the Rocktron. I'm currently using loops 7 & 8 to switch my reverb and channels on the Tremoverb.

I use the Gig-FX and Echo2D to split my signal between two power sections run in stereo. The power amp of the Tremoverb and a KMD XV100SD (4 x 6550) which is slaved to the Tremoverb's preamp.

Also, why does this website cut my pics down by 1/4 so you don't get the full view?

And as to the OP. Any input on pricing?

So are you trying to build this to sell, or are you wondering how much you should personally expect to pay?

also, no disrespect meant or anything. Tone is a very personal thing.

neonblack wrote:So are you trying to build this to sell, or are you wondering how much you should personally expect to pay?

also, no disrespect meant or anything. Tone is a very personal thing.

I'm having a guy build me a one off. I have a specific graphic I want on it which I'll do or have someone else do most likely. Who knows, I may just have the builder do it to keep it easy for me if he can do what I want easily enough.

Fuzzfaceless in the UK would do a custom job with your graphic no problem. It would likely be more expensive than the other pedals you mentioned. Anything Custom almost always will be.

Right. I just want to know what you all would pay for what I'm having built. That's all I'm asking. What's the top price you'd pay for the pedal I described with NOS components and all sans any finish or graphics?

It's really a simple question ya'll, no state secrets need be spilt.

neonblack wrote:I'm personally bored to death of boutique clones. There are so many people (fairfield, ss/bs, Infanem) either doing original circuits or using a classic circuit and messing with it until it sounds totally different. When I see muff, tonebender, tubescreamer, etc, I tend to pass it over. Unless you're doing something crazy with the circuit, you're just directly competing with a few hundred other boutique clones.

Just my two cents. Someone else might think this is exactly what they need.

I love clones of old vintage fuzz. Good fun to build and a lot of nice sounds to be had. But I love modern original circuits with some crazy stuff going on. I love all fuzz. They all come in handy. Its good to have a lot of fuzzy colors to paint with.

Can anyone actually address the fuckin' OP?

Why not ask the guy building it?

The Mad Titan wrote:Can anyone actually address the fuckin' OP?

You are gonna make a lot of friends around here.

KaosCill8r wrote:

The Mad Titan wrote:Can anyone actually address the fuckin' OP?

You are gonna make a lot of friends around here.

Of the special sort.

I keed.

But come on. No one? Really?

The power of the cute Hobbes face compels you! (BTW, love C&H, have every strip ever released)

I probably wouldn't buy it but $170/80 seems likely?