Questions for Mr McPherson - Answered!

[Conway]

Mr Fuzzy just sold a pedal on trademe. Or should that be Mr Bro?!

[slash-ed]

How many other small pedal builders will let you try before you buy if you don't happen to be in the same city as them? I don't really get that.

I asked him if I could buy one of his pedals and then if it wasn't what I thought could I send it back within 5 days, he said no. You could get all legal on it, consumer guarantees act says you can do that with any product, longer period too, but that just wastes time, and makes for unfriendly dealings.

If he has faith in his pedals, and they do what he says they do, then there shouldn't be a problem.

This is my concern too. I'm 90% interested in dropping what could be the better part of $400 on a wah with added features. But that's a lot of dough for a wah, period - not to mention one that you can't try, youtube, read reviews etc.

I do understand his problem tho - which is that he custom makes pedals so its harder to then take a return. But maybe he could have a demo "base" model (ie: stock standard, uncustomised) that he could let you try even with an appropriate deposit or credit card bond or something.

Cool, well he seems keen on getting a few pedals to me for review, so hopefully that may go some way towards helping some of you guys decide whether or not something is worth your time or not.

I've asked for the Omega wah, one with some of the optional features, but I haven't got a clue whether he keeps many on hand or just builds to order or what.

Also taking a look at the Solar Fuzz (cool concept!) and the Rockbox, since apparently it's based on a Jubilee - can't resist that.

[willow13]

I don't know if I would call it that. A bunch of us were like "dude the pedals sound great but they don't look as professional as they are due to the font, maybe think about changing it?"

then he got quite defensive about it.

your memory is deceiving you .... he didn't get defensive, I got defensive for him. As far as I remember (I have pm's from some of the pack ) he just said he is happy with it, end of

[slash-ed]

Is that thread still around somewhere? I'd like to read it.

[willow13]

Is that thread still around somewhere? I'd like to read it.

pretty sure it got heavily modded and is just a shadow of its former self

[druz15]

I don't know if I would call it that. A bunch of us were like "dude the pedals sound great but they don't look as professional as they are due to the font, maybe think about changing it?"

then he got quite defensive about it.

your memory is deceiving you .... he didn't get defensive, I got defensive for him. As far as I remember (I have pm's from some of the pack ) he just said he is happy with it, end of

true but as Tony pointed out he got a lot of feedback from a large cross-section of the guitar pedal buying community in Nz lets face it people on this forum probably spend more on gear than most others in NZ, and he was told by many that they were put off by the looks, but otherwise would be keen to try/own his pedals. He may have not "past participle of get" defensive but I don't remember anyone really getting on his case like the JD screamer guy, it was just "hey I think ... about the font and ... agrees with me"

I understand him not wanting to change it for now though, they have a look and people know when they see them "that's a McPherson pedal" if he want and made them look all new (say like Catalinbread) it's almost like re-establishing a brand, which obviously they can afford to do now, but he probably doesn't want to at this point.

[TmcB]

I got defensive for him.

This made me respect you quite a bit actually FWIW.

[druz15]

Is that thread still around somewhere? I'd like to read it.

pretty sure it got heavily modded and is just a shadow of its former self

and yeah also this.
Altho the JD screamer one is just impossible to figure out what happened now as he removed all his posts

but thanks to JBs sig we know that you can keep your dumb gibsons cause you're uneducated and everyone has them

[Some Bozo]

Altho the JD screamer one is just impossible to figure out what happened now as he removed all his posts

but thanks to JBs sig we know that you can keep your dumb gibsons cause you're uneducated and everyone has them

What is this JD Screamer of which they speak? I've missed/forgotten that one.

[druz15]

Altho the JD screamer one is just impossible to figure out what happened now as he removed all his posts

but thanks to JBs sig we know that you can keep your dumb gibsons cause you're uneducated and everyone has them

What is this JD Screamer of which they speak? I've missed/forgotten that one.

basically this guy makes "the JD Screamer" and sells em on trademe. I believe they're basically Tubescreamers with "mojo" components and a few tweaks but there could be more to it, anyhow someone on here had a thread about them as he had one, and there was a vid on youtube showing how poorly put together they were. Then the actual guy who makes them came on and started flaming everyone. A few people were like "can you tell me why it's better than say pedal x y or z?" and he just got mad and basically told us all to fuck ourselves cause a famous guitarist likes his pedal.

So, naturally... we wolfpacked him

[Some Bozo]

Ah yeah thanks. I think I found the thread, where half the posts are now full stops.

[druz15]

Ah yeah thanks. I think I found the thread, where half the posts are now full stops.

Yeah I think he realised the ridiculous way he was acting might look bad if in future anyone was to buy one of his products and googled JD Screamer and saw him basically abusing people who dared question his genius, so he edited all his posts to dots (don't know why he didn't just delete but meh)

[TmcB]

he edited all his posts to dots (don't know why he didn't just delete but meh)

He was a follower of the NZSimon/Mukuzi way.

[druz15]

he edited all his posts to dots (don't know why he didn't just delete but meh)

He was a follower of the NZSimon/Mukuzi way.

all in good fun eh

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