around multiple amps or whatever. I kind of had project we just wanted to start from scratch. component values are different so it sounds
accumulated a few things, and Fender wanted We had some attempts to get things started, a little different. Sometimes it’s that pedal but
to get more into the pedal space. but hadn’t really progressed as much as we’d now it has a boost added or that kind of thing.
wanted to. I was in a particular fit of boredom
Our CEO Andy Mooney had this idea and drive at the moment, so I just raised my hand and For me, I didn’t want to do that. I really had a
to try and have our footprint over the entire said, “I’ve got a bunch of ideas, here’s a road desire to try and come up with some things that
signal path of a guitar player. Initially that was map of something we could do!” I had a couple are unique. And because we are Fender, I really
a grander vision of starting at the guitar and of plans in place, so the company graciously felt Fender deserves to have something that
ending up all the way into the recorded part allowed me to go and pursue that. That led us is truly Fender done, and not leveraging other
of it. I think eventually we’ll probably migrate to the first six pedals in January. That was a peoples’ hard work. I wanted something that
there, but for sure what happens between a short ten-month journey. was unique, could be uniquely ours, and that
guitar and an amplifier he wants to approach
we could stand behind and not worry about
with authority. We had some efforts in the [WM] One of th e things I most appreciated somebody on a web board somewhere taking
past where we had branded pedals, brought about ‘your’ pedals is that they weren’t it apart and going, “Oh, it’s a Timmy clone!”
in some pedals from other manufacturers rehashed versions of existing circuits. In some or something. It was important to just start
and changed the industrial design or the look ways it would have been easier to go that route, with a blank slate. I have a lot of respect for
of them and made sure we liked them from a why didn’t you? people that do tweak known circuits and get
sound standpoint, then put our name on it.
a little bit more out of them. That’s very much
[Stan] Yeah, there’s no shame at all, I think like a getting blood from a turnip kind of thing.
But those things always end up being kind of that’s a perfectly valid thing. I know there are It’s impressive if you can take a long-standing
generic, you always end up leveraging other a lot of pedals that are exact direct clones of existing circuit and tweak it and make it a little
circuits and it’s not really necessarily something things. Some are like, if you blur your eyes bit better. It just wasn’t what we wanted to do.
that’s heartfelt. So, when we started this you see the same schematic but maybe some
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