Bellyheart wrote:Most bummed to read people talk about not trusting Kickstarter. I am about I start one for my band. Two piece and impossible for us to source revenue for an album pressing in a timely manner. You guys were my main hope since we have very little web prescence. Oh well.
well, i don't have anything against Kickstarter. i've funded 3 things, 2 were webcomic things and 1 was a recording album thing.... for a webcomic guy. oh! and the PitchGrinder. that was awesome.
but i would throw into friend's band stuff getting shit financed through Kickstarter. i guess i'm not as worried about stuff falling apart 'cause i don't put in money i won't miss. so when it happens and i get a prepaid download and t-shirt i'm super happy. but if it didn't work put i'm not that worried about the $50 i put in.
i think? i haven't had one i got in on go tits up yet.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
good on her for saying "I fucked up" but does anyone else find the blaming the 'changing face of the industry' a little bit egregious? The boutique pedal market is thriving like it never has before. By changing does she actually mean 'people have better options now than to put up with my shit' maybe?
Bassus Sanguinis wrote:A shame, really, though not much of a surprise as already stated. I feel bad for Devi and for her business (this really was the last nail tp the coffin, I'm afraid). Not to mention all the backers. Some of them might have still had hopes for this thing getting finished even if it was her crazy design swansong (...well it was apparently Ken that actually did a lot of the design thus far) ...her business could have used it. She hasn't been known for keeping up to her old fame lately. by lately I mean in the past three years or so.
But at least she got her vagina and I think that is actually a cool thing - very unfortunate that she wasn't able to come back with the product that paid her for it. The Devi credit... isn't saving much, though she has cool pedals. I hope - for everyone involved - that she can pay back everybody soon-ish and save what is left of her integrity. She shoved some - as phantasmagorovich pointed out - in her non-drama and honest message that mjust have been very hard to release.
Yeah, I think this is just sad, and I feel bad for her, too.
And I'm not a backer myself, i just remember her from when she was a part of this forum, when she was a hot new name in making the crazy noisy modern fuzzes. And I really like (and use) a few of her pedals.
So did she sink that other twenty grand into the surgery? Cause that indegogo thing never got funded. I love her pedals but man if I'd had invested I'd be fucking pissed.
Achtane wrote:FUZZ ALL DAY MAN FUZZ IS GOD ALL OTHER EFFECTS ARE SHIT
Caesar wrote:Dude, can you get the fuck out of my b/s/t thread with your bullshit.
PumpkinPieces wrote: This isn't America, this is I Love Fuzz.
Mudfuzz wrote:Remember when we were all just a bunch of weirdos that liked fucked up shit and not just a bunch of nerds buying bling to impress each other online?
I wish her nothing but good luck. I won't say anything bad about Devi because she has gone out of her way to promote Acid Splash Designs without ever being asked. That makes her a saint in my book. Hah
I will say this though. I wasn't keen on the idea of this from the start and I'm not a fan of kickstarter.
I hope everything gets resolved for those of you who are out money.
"I do not have the ability to think rationally 90% of the time and I also change my mind at the drop of a hat".
With her proving to be unbalanced in the past and with her track record I just wasn't comfortable with backing the Console even with Kenfanem being involved, as much as I liked the idea. I'd be pissed if I'd shelled out money for this. What's the old saying? "Fool me once..."
Good deals with: Officer Bukowski, Caesar, BriBri, Amorphous, ThePastRecedes
I for some reason (naively) always thought it would actually happen. As a backer I would kind of just forget about it for ages and then be like oh yeah... one day it will just turn up like an unexpected present. I wanted to design carts with savable presets for fun too.
I'm not really sure where Devi went wrong, technically it's not too difficult. It seems like they were almost there but a go button to get things into production never seemed to be pushed. Even though it raised 40k I can imagine it wouldn't stretch that far. Injection moulding cases, getting the consoles machined production etc but none of that even seemed to happen.
So yeah a little mixed feelings overall.. a bit annoyed and a bit of sympathy too. Sometimes things aren't as easy as they seem.
Oh well.. if I get a refund I'll just build my own . Fingers crossed.
I'd assume she's getting a cut for every pedal sold. That's a very big assumption, so I dunno. Maybe it's based on an overall percentage sold during the year. I suppose she could have had her contract written anyway she wanted.
I kind of doubt that Ken will be taking over or at least I'd be surprised. It seems like he's in a different league as far as building. I'm expecting a bigger company may have jumped on this. Someone who could pump out a shit ton of units and put them in Guitar Centers. That's a total guess though, and I'm probably wrong. lol
"I do not have the ability to think rationally 90% of the time and I also change my mind at the drop of a hat".