Yes I admit na sinabi ko na noon na 'nakapailalim' yung mods sa shredhead. To all buyers of the shredhead, I tell them that the shredhead is based on crunch box pedal (which is also based on marshall guv'nor)
Nakapag-dissect na pala ang ilan dito, so dapat alam nyo na alin dun. Pag tinuro ko pa 'exactly' saan dun, eh di lahat nakapag-DIY na rin ng sarili nilang shredhead. I'm surprised na lahat ng nagdissect eh naoverlook pa yun.
Minor lang yung mod, pero malaki ang change sa tone. To all of guys who still have doubts, you can try to A/B the crunch box to the shredhead.
I'm using high-quality components to build the shredhead, (if you've seen a green mylar cap on yours, it's because 2 years ago limited lang ang stocks ng epektos.com) Kung alam nyo lang ang capital how much per shredhead, I bet you guys would realize that arguing/debating about the shredhead is just pointless to overanalyze.
I never forced anyone to buy the shredhead.
All posts that are against me on this thread are from forumers I don't know personally. I mean, just because you don't know me in person.. do you guys really have to be that rude?
There may be rude posts here, but MV Electronics is also a brand, just like BOSS, Ibanez, Lovepedal, Klon, Landgraff, etc., all of which are openly talked about especially if the people have issues with the respective products of these aforementioned companies. You can't expect everybody to have to know you personally for them to be able to comment. That's part of being a builder. You can either A.) be overly emotional about it, throw tantrums or answer back to those rude posts, or B.) be a professional and cordially answer any questions or doubts that other people might have about the pedals that you build.
No need to get emotional. Trabaho mo yan pre.
I don't get why people are so angry about the shredhead being a modified clone of another pedal. The thing got popular because people testified that it sounded good. How can you feel ripped off by buying something almost half the price of the original and was pretty decent?
What you don't get is that the ones getting ripped off aren't any of the Shredhead owners out there but the ones whose circuit board and list of materials were used without permission in spite of the fact that the PCB designer explicitly said that HIS work is not to be used for commercial purposes. Gustong-gusto ko rin ang tunog ng Shredhead, mind you. It's just that if this thing continues and the local builders just go on directly copying PCBs "since may market naman," then hanggang dun na lang talaga tayo. Wala nang expansion at hindi na makaka-compete yang mga kopyang yan sa international market.
Mark V. already has a good basis with that Madbean PCB design. It would have been really interesting if something like an independent boost footswitch or a couple of frequency-cut switches could be added to the basic circuit (take a hint, Mark). Eh di ibang produkto na sana yun since malamang kailangan i-modify ang PCB design nun. I'm sure that it wouldn't be so hard, especially not for a tone scientist, right? Yun lang ang sinasabi kong innovation, yung magdagdag ng mga makabuluhang function based on schematics from websites at hindi lang rektahang gagawing pedal yung schematic tapos benta-benta na agad. Kayang-kaya yan ng mga local DIY builders natin. Sabi nga ni pareng siore e, "they're just friggin' pedals" so di na dapat problema yun.
Pag may mga local builder na makagawa ng mga innovation na yan, just imagine all the possibilities of their modified pedals being sold internationally at hindi lang sa iisang market na laging mahilig lang sa mura. Eh di mas yayaman pa yung mga builder nun, makikilala pa ang Pilipinas as a source of quality guitar effects. If that happens (and I hope that it does happen), imagine the value that our local builders can add to their pedals. Eh ang mga going rates ng DIY pedals ngayon eh parang presyong Behringer o Boston na lang e, di na tuloy nabibigyan ng value ng mga gawa ng local builders. Local pedals are mostly just considered as cheap alternatives to their American-designed counterparts. Pwede namang baguhin yun.
I hope you folks finally understand what I've been trying to explain all this time. Para sa inyo yan, boys. Kaya nyo yan.
