their thoughts are, because somewhere there’s the idea of doing things that were particularly [WM] You opened the door with a comment
some quiet person with an awesome idea. So meant to be Fender. That said, there are a about some of the FMIC (Fender Musical
amongst the sea of ideas that came in, one bunch of really choice Fender things, and I’d Instruments Corporation) specialty brands. Are
of them was that we should make pedals for be surprised if they didn’t appear. Vibrotones you going to design some pedals for the other
Fender that are Fender – a distortion pedal with have been a big part of our history. Reverb and brands inside the FMIC family?
the sound of a Fender amp, a distortion pedal tremolo have been a big part of our history. that’s specifically for a Stratocaster. Things I’m sure that we will hit those kinds of things [Stan] Super good question, and I don’t
were skewed that way, and my sense was that in time, and probably not much time. I have actually know the answer. Right now, those
it’s a big old industry. The sounds that we all a Vibrotone personally, but it’s not necessarily brands are very focused and they’ve got their
grew up on are varied and they come from lots something that I want to gig with, so if I can own mission statements and are doing great.
of different places. If you look at the musical get it in a pedal form and it sounds close to the That’s not a world I’m necessarily in, I’m very
cultural influence of what was happening in original then that makes me happy. deep on the Fender side of the business.
England, and America, the cool little offshoot
What I’d say for now is that there’s not even a
twisty things that happened in Canada or The headroom in the pedals is high enough conversation there, were very focused on being
wherever, all of this stuff kind of got mixed to deal with loud humbuckers and we’re not the best Fender we can be.
together to give us our language. I didn’t want necessarily known as the loud humbucker it to just become a closed box where it’s just guitar company unless you go over to the I love high gain sounds, and I’ve done some
going to be the sound of a Stratocaster through Charvel Jackson and EVH side of things. But high gain amp designs over the years and
a Vibroverb and that’s just what you get. just trying to play in the neighborhood, you’ve played a lot of that stuff in my own playing so
got to realize that the neighborhood has a lot of that’s stuff that resonates with me. I always love
We’re very aware that people use other brands diversity to it. Were in it in a large way, but we’re an opportunity to go push the envelope there
of guitars and amps. We love where we are in not all of it by a long shot. a bit because high gain stuff is fairly hard to
the world, but it’s a big world. I kind of resisted
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