Chankgeez wrote:Jesus Was a Robot wrote:I guess when I started to develop my own pedal it kind of disgusted me. I found out how much some people's margins are, which is fine, I'm glad they are making it. I just don't think that some of the pedals equal the price.
Like, if you make a three knob fucking fuzz/delay or whatever, I don't want to pay 300 dollars for that.
I agree with that to some extent, but you weren't going to try making a run of having it be your primary source of income. That definitely changes things.
IIRC, you also ran into development delays. That adds cost as well.
I think there's a lot of good info in crochambeau's post.
Primary source of income? Oh god no. Absolutely not. I'd never bank on something like that. I can't. I'm happy for those that can and do, but they are much more savvy than myself. I would have loved for it to work out, sure, but it didn't. I did run into delays for sure, but it didn't cost me that much more.
I'm not trying to down play the development side at all. Some pedals are totally worth their price in gold. Others are not. Some are half baked ideas that take almost no R&D and others are labors of love that people work years on.
My thought process moves more towards the gradual raise of prices in general. It seems like theirs been a raise in pedal prices by certain brands way more than others. I'm being vague to not offend, but maybe I should stop doing that.
If I spend 400 bucks on a pedal, I expect it to do a lot.