http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2375076518&category=41418
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$1,358 and counting!!!!!!!!
As the old saying goes..."Whatever the market will bear."
Still, something about paying that much for a pedal, vintage or not, gets under my skin. Particularly the line about "or put it on a shelf". I'm going to resist the urge to fly into a rant here, but the thought of a collector hoarding pedals/amps/guitars thus keeping equipment out of the hands of working musicians bugs me. Then again, relics are more delicately preserved in the keep of a collector than if they were in a gigging rig, so I can see both sides of the coin. Sort of a Catch 22. Please, I mean no disrespect to anyone reading this who happens to be a collect vintage gear.
I dunno, just my $0.02....
I remember when they first came on the scene, they were £5.00 each in 1966/7 and if you got one out of many that sounded good your luck was in, there are all the stories about Roger Mayer buying 20 at a time and sifting through them with Jimi to find one that was usable, this particular one doesn't do it for me on this showing at least and certainly not at that price !!!!!!!!!!!!
no musician would pay that much for it ( no one I play with could aford it...) so it must be going to a collector, witch isnt in my mind necesarylli a bad thing anyway..if it wasnt for collectors, a lot of classic instruments would have been lost somewhere in history..there would be no Stradi-whats-his-name-again violins left probably very few early Gibsons and Fenders, most of the great art in the world would have been lost in attics and basements, possibly ruined...would you be able to resist poking around inside to see if you could improve it?....we have the circuit, we know how to make one sound great...let the collector have it, and maby 200 years from now, it will once again end up in the hands of a musician....
Johan
Stradivarius ;)
Did you hear the sound clip? Think im happy with my cheapo clone. Whatever sounds good is what i go by. Good luck to highest bidder.
QuoteI remember when they first came on the scene, they were £5.00 each in 1966/7
Great thing about fuzzfaces and DIY is you can STILL make one for $10 (or whatever 5 pounds is equal to)
Also, I think that the new all-silicon Miss Piggy challenges these classic Ge units in terms of sound quality (see thread on piggybacking Si trannies for low gain).
At least they gave us a picture of the underside of the circuit board and a semi-clear picture of the components :)
Phillip
At this kind of money I think I'd want the pics mounted in a gold plated frame !!!!!!!!!!
Hi there
Okay,it's too much money but it's a fine sound Fuzz-Face and listen carefully you can ear the clean harmonics and a real deep in the sound.It's only good NKT with a good biaising .All the clips i've heard on the web are only over saturated,not so subtle ,there it's really an Hendrix sounding Fuzz-Face but the price is very crazy. :roll:
Regards
Bruno
I'd be interested to see what the values of those carbon comp resistors are today, 35 years later. How about those electrolytic caps? They gotta be in bad shape. Probably nearly dry, if not completely dry.
It's a great antique, but I think I'll stick with my home-made fuzz, thank you very much!
For that kinda money a player would do well to shop for a great used stack of amplification devices.
Someone else can HAVE it AFAIAConcerned !!!
It did clean up real nice, the Vol up sound though...well kinda hard to tell really...I forgot to look at the recording technique.
FF for mega outlay doesn't bother me like fine wooded guitars that are all either swept up or being swept up by collectors, which drives the price IMO rediculously high for the regular player...400 got me a brand new LP special back in the day...W/ hardshell...anyone would have been doing quite well to buy all they could at that time. Shoot I got one used for 180 too...600 is like rock bottom for a beat down one that needs all kinda work...if it is a LP collectors will buy it for 600+ right now...regardless of condition, from what I gather. Sick.
1300 for a purported piece of the 'Jimi' action, the size of a saucer, that cost what 5-10 initially and can reproduced [they're all so different anyway] pretty darn good enough for R&R, and very inexpensively...is just plain silly...one 'could' have say 50 great sounding, great looking FF's easily for that kind of money if you DIY them...they just wouldn't be the 'same' though...
The price is down to $536 now. I guess some dumbo added an extra decimal according to the bid retractions. I'm sure that seller blew a fuse!! :evil: :x
Come on, 536 bucks for a pedal is still insane ;)