Possibly OT: Did you ever get the feeling.....?

[R.G.]

As for shades of white and 3-piece suits.....well, maye it IS just me. I'm the sort who looks at a rack of 600 shades of lipstick and mutters "There's only 4 colours there, who the hell are they trying to kid?"

Actually, Mark, I think you've hit on something important.

I'll never claim to know how the feminine mind works, but from my associations with ladies over the years I finally figured out something - if a woman *thinks* this or that colored goo makes her more beautiful, it actually does. This effect still works in women enlightened enough to know about the effect. Something like Commanche war paint honestly making them fiercer warriors.

I believe the extension to if one honestly believes that this or that stompbox is really, really going to make their playing better, it probably will. In that vein, 600 shades of lipstick - or stompboxes -  makes sense.

[wampcat1]

I think your burger metaphor is pretty apt, in more ways than one.  How many people do you know that go on vacation/travel for work and seek out the place that has the hamburger most like what they're used to?  Most people prefer things that are familiar to them.  So, if everyone is familiar with the tube screamer/fuzz face/whatever, chances are that they're going to want MORE of that.  But, some people can afford the Kobe Beef burger (and want to say that's what they eat), while others can only afford a White Castle burger.  

Builders know that some people want the Kobe burger, so there are lots of them trying to sell rich dummies a spendy burger.

Now, let's say that someone comes along and invents a pizzaburger.  A couple of daring souls try it out and find that it's good!  They tell their friends, who try it and like it so much they seek out pizzaburgers on their own later (and probably tell THEIR friends about it.).   A pizza burger is significantly different from the other burgers, but still fits a basic  formula that appeals to people.

Obviously a few daring souls will come along and come up with something really different.  weinerschnitzel, shall we say?  If people find it appealing, then they'll start to eat THAT in addition to their burgers.

To wrap up this pre-lunch metaphor, the kids who want to make a living making pedals would do best to invent pizzaburgers and weinerschnitzel, because the burger market is already pretty saturated.

***edit*** yep, it's friday.  Anyone else feeling burned out?***end edit***

After that post, I'm hungry!  :lol:

[puretube]

http://diystompboxes.com/sboxforum/viewtopic.php?p=259060#259060

is it true, or H*ax?

:shock:

[Melanhead]

Wow! ... just went to musictoyz and pedalgeek and had a look around! ... Never knew there were so many lines of pedals  :shock: