Frayed Knot Electronics

[Jwar]

I'll buy one if you guys send me money to pay for it.

[Chankgeez]

Don't we first need to establish who's got dibs?

[fuzzisokiguess]

Summary of first three pages (with wordplay):
Q: Peds rad?
A: I'm afraid not.

[goroth]

I don’t see why the layouts are any more impractical than CBA.
Colour coded knobs is rad.
The website is fine.

My reason for not buying is simply that the pedals look somewhat complicated, the demos are artistic rather than “functional” and I can’t be bothered using my brain to figure out what his stuff does. That doesn’t to me detract from his pedals being rad.

I don’t see the seppuku connection either

[jrfox92]

I don’t see why the layouts are any more impractical than CBA.

Because CBA pedals are labeled.

[goroth]

I don't really care about labels.
Obviously.

And the knobs appear to be colour coded, so it's not totally random.

[D.o.S.]

Getting Seppuku vibes from this company, and I don't just mean the high prices.

So you're going to buy all of them and fawn over them for the next two years?

[UglyCasanova]

Getting Seppuku vibes from this company, and I don't just mean the high prices.

So you're going to buy all of them and fawn over them for the next two years?

You know it, bb

[Jwar]

I don’t see why the layouts are any more impractical than CBA.
Colour coded knobs is rad.
The website is fine.

My reason for not buying is simply that the pedals look somewhat complicated, the demos are artistic rather than “functional” and I can’t be bothered using my brain to figure out what his stuff does. That doesn’t to me detract from his pedals being rad.

I don’t see the seppuku connection either

Is figuring it out part of the fun of using a pedal? You old bastard.

[goroth]

Yes it is.


I'm just super lazy right now.

[jrmy]

Hm... maybe I should go down and try some of 'em out. And stuff.

[Dandolin]

[Dandolin]

Hm... maybe I should go down and try some of 'em out. And stuff.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1fNmZ9LKAE[/youtube]

[niftyprose]

Here I am barging into this thread a month after everyone else left it.

I came across FKE's demo of the Marma last month while searching for something else. It was one of those aha! moments. I'd been enormously taken with Seppuku's 2015 demo of the Eccodrone (billed as a more polite version of the Memory Loss) but since Seppuku's production seemed erratic in all sorts of ways I never committed actual funds. To my ears, the Marma has some of the Eccodrone's tonality but seems more controllable and in the demo appears free of clock noises, rf interference, crackling switches and the like. $260 is indeed steep for a new arrival but it looks to be a complex build.

Reader, I wrote to Mr. FKE the same night. I explained that I liked what I'd heard very much, that I was too broke to place an order, but would he consider building me one with a slam switch a la the Caroline Meteore and Kilobyte at some point in future? I'm used to too-cool builders ignoring such requests but he replied in less than 12 hours with a sympathetic note and a clear (and reasonable) price for the mod. So my impression was positive. This guy is alright. I will follow through later this year and tell everyone how it goes.

One caveat about the pedal: the demo has filters moving up (mostly) and down. I'm guessing that those movements are being created by tweaking the relevant pot during play, which is not an option for me. So maybe I'll ask if the slam switch could tune a filter instead.

Best, NP.

[Chankgeez]