JUST A BIG SHOUT OUT TO THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!

aron · April 28, 2009, 12:53:06 PM

Thank you for being here.

I've been in other forums where it's just imploding. Everyone mad at each other and starting other forums and trying to figure out how they are going to co-exist. Duplicate postings on the forums etc.... etc...

THANK YOU guys for giving me one place that I have enjoyed for the last 11 years. It hasn't always been smooth, but I really, really appreciate all the people on here. I haven't said it enough, but I love this place and you guys have been great.

When I was working on my Rat pedal and the NPN boost again, this forum was a valuable resource.

Thanks!

p.s. thank you Andrew for doing a tough job.

gtudoran · April 28, 2009, 12:58:11 PM

Aron, we didn't spoke ... never ever but you are a big man with a big soul. A nice jobe and very nice ppl, what can you whish more..... Hmmm maybe a chat?

Best regards with enormous respect,
Gabriel

biggy boy · April 28, 2009, 01:04:11 PM

Thanks Aron sooo much for this forum!!
I have learned so much and am continuing to learn.
I've been to a couple of other forums but keep coming back to this one.
yours is busier and there is always something new and interesting going on here.

Thanks
Glen

owenjames · April 28, 2009, 01:10:20 PM

I think part of the reason the forum doesn't end up with all the rubbish that happens on other forums is that it is just so damn useful and everyone has a common (very specific) interest. If your like me then all the posts are interesting even the "i cant find this component" posts are interesting and helpful. How could it not be a welcoming place with that kind of combination.

aron · April 28, 2009, 01:28:25 PM

Thank you guys! For the record, the "other forums" I am talking about are not music related but still go through pains like all forums do.

Cliff Schecht · April 28, 2009, 02:44:55 PM

This forum has always been a friendly place to come and talk about stompboxes and other music electronics. This website really has become the one stop place for information about stompboxes, so congrats on that as well

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I agree that unlike other forums, we manage to avoid pointless arguing, name calling, etc.. The site has always been well moderated, so my hats off to ALL of the moderators.

km-r · April 28, 2009, 02:54:25 PM

wrong board! try the lounge! maybe ill get aron to transfer your thread, mr threadstarter...

hahaha! kidding!

this forum has been a great help to me as a guitar player, diy stompbox builder, and also as a person... you have no idea how i was crying on the shoulders of diystompboxes.com long time ago...

cheers to the biggest stompbox forum in the planet!

Mark Hammer · April 28, 2009, 03:01:08 PM

Good leadership makes a place run smooth, buddy.

And great leadership usually starts with people who are familiar with stuff on the shop floor.

Hard to believe its 11 years. I keep stumbling onto threads I printed out and saved in my binder collection, and am constantly amazed at the dates on some of them. "1999?! I thought that thread was just from last year!"

MovingInSloMo · April 28, 2009, 03:02:40 PM

We're not immature young people. (most of us hehe) We have intelligence, and age and wisdom and smart ideas. by nature anyone who's a guitar douchebag would not enjoy this place. Petty shallow self serving selfish lazy folks would get nowhere here. Someone who's apt to buy an expensive piece of gear is not going to sit and figure out how it works, how to make it better, and ask advice on how to do it. They want someone else to do it for them.

aron · April 28, 2009, 03:05:57 PM

> Hard to believe its 11 years.

Yes, really hard. That's 11 years for _me_. For people like you, thank you for helping and being here.

mnordbye · April 28, 2009, 03:06:28 PM

I really enjoy the aura of this forum, i find many others not so "friendly". There's not often we come across all-knowers and the likes on this forum. Good job, and cheers!

kvb · April 28, 2009, 03:19:56 PM

I think that one of the reasons that people are careful about how they behave here is that this forum has a spirit of contribution.

This forum's spirit revolves around people who have been so profoundly affected by the great things that this forum has brought them.

Anyone who has gotten to the level of toiling over a breadboard making tweeks is doing so in order to save others the trouble and in hopes of adding something good for the group BECAUSE many others have spent much more time and SHARED.

Not to mention the fact that this type of building is very solitary. If one talks about these things to others, there are only blank stares.
So here we share a common affliction.

who would want to muck that up?

Rock and Roll

newfish · April 28, 2009, 03:52:02 PM

Many many plus ones!

Thanks to this Forum and the helpful people it houses, the only pedals on my board that aren't home-made are either Wah, or Digital.

It's hard to put a number on the things I've certainly learned as a member - if i could, it would be a very large number indeed.

There's some great articles and advice provided here, as well as a spirit of 'tinkering' - which is soooo hard to come by.

Even if the advice you receive is "...go read some theory." - you *still* end up smarter than when you started.

So yes, many thankyous from this little corner of burnt-fingerdom.

Ice-9 · April 28, 2009, 05:31:16 PM

Hi, I have been here, coming up to one year now since i found this forum and have found that time here has flown over, i have learned so much and enjoyed the chat and how everybody chips in with ideas . this is one great place to be, friendly informative and fun. I think everyone will agree that its us that should be thanking you Aron for such a great place.

Renegadrian · April 28, 2009, 05:43:06 PM

Quote from: Cliff Schecht on April 28, 2009, 02:44:55 PM
This forum has always been a friendly place to come and talk about stompboxes and other music electronics. This website really has become the one stop place for information about stompboxes, so congrats on that as well .

I agree that unlike other forums, we manage to avoid pointless arguing, name calling, etc.. The site has always been well moderated, so my hats off to ALL of the moderators.

Even more, this forum and all its users auto moderates...I always read discussions made in the best and polite way, even if you think my point is dead wrong...So moderators have an easy life here!!!

Renegadrian · April 28, 2009, 05:51:01 PM

Quote from: kvb on April 28, 2009, 03:19:56 PM
I think that one of the reasons that people are careful about how they behave here is that this forum has a spirit of contribution.

This forum's spirit revolves around people who have been so profoundly affected by the great things that this forum has brought them.

Anyone who has gotten to the level of toiling over a breadboard making tweeks is doing so in order to save others the trouble and in hopes of adding something good for the group BECAUSE many others have spent much more time and SHARED.

Not to mention the fact that this type of building is very solitary. If one talks about these things to others, there are only blank stares.
So here we share a common affliction.

who would want to muck that up?

Rock and Roll

NOW that's a good point...I definitely agree with you...

mikemaddux · April 28, 2009, 06:33:03 PM

Thats why I keep coming back to this forum exclusively...

Talon5051 · April 28, 2009, 07:15:27 PM

Thanks Aron for setting this up. Also a thanks to everyone here who shares their knowledge, schematics, layouts, pictures etc. I love coming to this site. I have noticed that nobody talks negatively about anybody else. I think that shows the level of character of the people in this forum.

tskullt · April 28, 2009, 07:22:20 PM

Thanks right back at you. You've created this monster and a great community of like minded builders have helped it grow. Every forum has problems, but this one has a spirit that is welcoming and helpful.

a rare thing indeed.
m.

neil411 · April 28, 2009, 07:41:51 PM

This forum is like being in a band where everyone likes to practice. When you get that, you don't want to screw it up.

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JUST A BIG SHOUT OUT TO THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!