If you spent enough time to design, breadboard, and build these pedals, you'd probably think about these pedal as your own too. In many cases the pedals that JHS produces are based on other pedals, but they have mods or features that didn't exist on the originals. Boss doesn't even mention the TS-9 in their description of the SD-1 even though those pedals are so similar even some mod instructions are the same for these pedals. Electro Harmonix barely mentions the Klon in its description, and only stated that it 'inspired' the design of their Soul Food Pedal. So we talked about how many manufacturers make circuit that are basically the same as others. They Pass Off Their Copied Circuits As Their Own Some people however don't live in reality.ģ. plenty of people have opinions about how much things should cost, but in reality, people can charge whatever they want for their products. If there are people out there willing to buy a hand built pedal for boutique prices, then that's just fair trade. A product is worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. Let's look at it from a business standpoint. So then, when JHS charges $200-$300 for a pedal, it raises some eyebrows. Some say that buying in bulk would decrease that price, so a manufacturer should be able to produce a product cheaper. A more complicated pedal would cost more, of course, but to a varying degree that how much buying an enclosure, knobs, jacks, and internals. I can put together the parts to build a pedal for about $20.

There is a lot of talk about 'how much it cost to make a pedal'. But it's also true of Boss, EHX and others. Others have cloned and tweeked the circuit and sold it as being something completely different. I actually own a Tube Screamer clone made by EHX. Ibanez's Tube Screamer is a circuit that has been emulated by many manufacturer. Today we have a very popular pedals that are recreated in many different ways by many different people. In a way, amps were cloned to create the first pedals. Early early pioneers took what guitarist were doing with their amps and boiled it down until they could replicate it on a small scale.

This meant pushing their amps very hard to make a distorted sound. Before the distortion pedal, guitar would push their amps to 'breakup'. Every dirt pedal that I've come across does this in some way. Then distortion would be similar to you putting your thumb overt the end of the water hose. Your clean signal is the water flowing the the hose unobstructed. Image that your guitar signal is a water hose. But in reality all 'dirt' circuits work similarly. Maybe there is a Mid-hump, maybe it flattens out the Mids. Ask a person of average intelligence was any pedal does and you get colorful langue about Highs and Low ends. In the world of effects, detail get a little murky.

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