Chiptune Guitar Pedals for Sale

It's a touch out of my price range at the moment, but I'd certainly be interested in running my trombone through something like this.

I dont see the price range on teh website

just my opinion but im thinking this is gonna be outta practically anyone in your target audience's price range, and i would also think anyone who would want something like this would probably pay a little more and buy a geiger counter, or a little less and get one used. they have a lot more to offer. im thinking $150 would even be pushing it if you wanted to sell more than a handful of em. as far as the enclosure itself goes...ugh. to anyone who builds pedals, if you're designing a pedal, please do not put it in a gimmicky enclosure like this. way too much space is going to be taken up on anyones pedalboard with that if they use multiple effects. it only accepting 5v dc may also kill your chances of selling these.

Not particularly, though the name sounds familiar.

Currently, I'm broke so nothing, but when I'm working I'm terrible with money, because I don't care about it and will pay silly for what I want. That said $250 does seem like a little much, but I've seen some crazy prices for pedals in general, so I didn't really think much of it.

I'm really glad this has gotten as many replies as it has.

tempsoundsolutions - [I like your music quite a lot! I've been listening to it since Pause was active.] I've thought about the 5V DC issue. I'm going to put a regulator in future pedals to accept 9V. Yes, the box rather big. This is because it's been kind of tough to find pre-fab boxes in exactly the right size. I realize there's quite a lot of wasted space so I'm going to keep thinking about it. The Geiger Counter offers quite a lot, I'm definitely aware of that pedal. I attempted to do a 'do one thing but do it well and also subtly sometimes' approach since the GC seems well-suited for noise-rock and the like.

SketchMan3 - Thanks! Demos as per your suggestion are sorely lacking so I'll do some in the near future. Wonderful idea! As for amp micing - I don't really remember : P

I'm really thankful for the feedback, you all have given me a lot of insight, some good things to think about, and some new ideas. What I hope to do is add a few more DSP features, make it way smaller, and lower the price point as much as I can. What sort of additional features might you all be interested in? Any 'wouldn't it be cool if' ideas?

Last edited by Trev (May 11, 2016 4:04 am)

right on trev, glad to hear you're an old fan! maybe if you were able to make variable voltage into an effect, it could be cool and make it so that it can offer a little more. i would think that if you were able to do it safely, that it would affect the sound in a way that could be utilized as a selling point. honestly, changing voltage in the hopes of it affecting the sound isnt something that pedals to my knowledge have really utilized too much yet..so maybe theres something in that for you. i would think if you dipped down to 3v that it could maybe drastically affect things and you could get more of a blown out sound with it, but i guess it depends on the od circuit. really kind of a shame, because i feel like i would be the kind of musician who could take advantage of this pedal. unfortunately i feel like while you've got a good idea, theres a little too much going against it, but maybe its not things that would be a dealbreaker if you added a little functionality. i think if you were able to implement maybe one or two more key things into it that it would make a little more stickyness in favor of the pedal toward the price. of course that geiger counter does a ton, but i would see that pedal as your competition-what can you implement to this that would set it apart from that? you've got the factor of price in the geiger counter in your favor, because it is a pricy pedal and i see em come up locally for sale pretty rarely. but maybe if you were able to get a hold of one and put it physically head to head against yours, you could brainstorm on it, maybe add something like a 'jam' function, and of course this might be a bit much to add in, but if you were able to add something like a couple of beat patterns in there, that would probably make people go apeshit on it. its tough to work this kind of thing out from a developer perspective because of not only the time involved in testing stuff out, but going by what you think a consumer would be interested in. but generally i think you do have a good idea here, its just a little too expensive.

SuperBustySamuraiMonkey - I'm fairly certain I could make it smaller, lower the price point drastically and keep most of if not all of the current features. (I've done some thinking about how I reduce parts cost and labor hours among other things). If I understand correctly, you and others might prefer a label that's more straightforward, rather than the Gameboy look? This actually would be much easier on my end anyway I think, so I'm certainly happy to consider this. I'll check that scene out too!

tempsoundsolutions - What are you thinking the voltage source would be? Something like a modular synthesizer? That might be doable, so long as the voltage input is scaled down somehow to 0 - 1.8 volts. The beat pattern idea is very interesting. I'll think about that too. That really might be a popular/in demand function?

Fudgers - Yes!

Last edited by Trev (May 12, 2016 9:34 pm)