Pedal Graphics

[Bogner]

You are probably right.

 

[Bogner]

My point being in this whole thing is some companies you can look at the pedal and you know (in this case I used Airis Effects as an example) by the artwork alone that those pedals are on the heavy, kick a$$ side fo the tonal spectrum. We bought music long ago often times based on album covers because the cover was a certain look we hoped, expected the music to follow suit. These were my points in bringing this thread to the table.

It has nothing to do with collecting pedals or only wanting pedals with fancy artwork or picking artwork over tone, etc.

 

[beaubrummels]

I've never heard of or played Airis Effects. Are they as 'kick ass' as the artwork? They have a Bob Ross and Pikachu drive. IME I don't think the artwork bears any relation to the quality or sound of the device. If it's a distortion box, it's just clipping the signal mainly and the differentiator is often some built-in filters or EQ'ing going on. Whether it's suitable for a particular kind of music is trial and error with the actual device. It's nice when the art and sound match up, but I think that's more often the exception. The most-used or sought-after devices don't have graphics specific to their purpose, like Tube Screamers or Klons. Like the analogy, typically, back in the album days, very few of those coolest covers actually had good music that you'd want to hear a second time. Just sayin'

 

[Bogner]

I've never heard of or played Airis Effects. Are they as 'kick ass' as the artwork? They have a Bob Ross and Pikachu drive. IME I don't think the artwork bears any relation to the quality or sound of the device. If it's a distortion box, it's just clipping the signal mainly and the differentiator is often some built-in filters or EQ'ing going on. Whether it's suitable for a particular kind of music is trial and error with the actual device. It's nice when the art and sound match up, but I think that's more often the exception. The most-used or sought-after devices don't have graphics specific to their purpose, like Tube Screamers or Klons. Like the analogy, typically, back in the album days, very few of those coolest covers actually had good music that you'd want to hear a second time. Just sayin'

Out of all their pedals you pick those two....lol. :lmao:

You must have listened to different music than me. A lot of those bands are still going strong today and have huge followings so they must have done something right on the covers and the audience listening to them.

 

[moshuajusic]

Dr Scientist separated himself from the pack with individually custom pedal graphics years ago. His wife did them. I remember owning a Cleanness and looking at a gallery of them thinking "damn, wish I had THAT one!" lol

 

[idsnowdog]

Graphics don't equal tone.

 

[beaubrummels]

Out of all their pedals you pick those two....lol. :lmao:

You must have listened to different music than me. A lot of those bands are still going strong today and have huge followings so they must have done something right on the covers and the audience listening to them.

For sure, a number of bands were successful and still have followers. Those aren't the ones I'm thinking of. There were hundreds and hundreds more that also had nice album covers but the music wasn't what you thought based on the cover. I was just following your analogy.

 

[ErikH]

I don't really care for the graphics.

 

[JamesPaul]

My point being in this whole thing is some companies you can look at the pedal and you know (in this case I used Airis Effects as an example) by the artwork alone that those pedals are on the heavy, kick a$$ side fo the tonal spectrum. We bought music long ago often times based on album covers because the cover was a certain look we hoped, expected the music to follow suit. These were my points in bringing this thread to the table.

It has nothing to do with collecting pedals or only wanting pedals with fancy artwork or picking artwork over tone, etc.

I agree with the often but not always aspect of the artwork. One had to be careful judging an album by it's cover back in the 80's. I remember walking past one of those mall record stores, with the display at the entrance, thinking "Who are those 4 girls?!" on that cover?




... upon closer inspection, it was Poison's Look What The Cat Dragged In, and those girls were Brett, C.C., Rikki and Bobby.

 

[LLL]

Like the analogy, typically, back in the album days, very few of those coolest covers actually had good music that you'd want to hear a second time. Just sayin'

Well, you're wrong. A few examples:

 

[beaubrummels]

Well, you're wrong. A few examples:

You're looking at your own record collection and saying all great covers are great albums. That is not true. The ones you bought might be great. But I'm saying during our lifetime there are a whole plethora of albums that were made (mainly speaking of the period of music up to when CDs appeared) that had great artwork but the music was not that great.

But that's not the point anyway. One of the first lessons you learn is to "not judge a book by it's cover", and pedals and their artwork are no different. There are a lot of pedals with great artwork that aren't useful or plainly suck.

 

[LLL]

Nonsense. Looks are everything to the Average Schmoe.

And there's waaay more Average Schmoes out there than Smart Schmoes.

 

[Mr. 80's]

CD's came out in 82'. Lot's of great albums and covers from 82'-89'. IMHO anyways.

 

[Bogner]

Graphics don't equal tone.

Who said that they did?

 

[Bogner]

One of the first lessons you learn is to "not judge a book by it's cover", and pedals and their artwork are no different. There are a lot of pedals with great artwork that aren't useful or plainly suck.

So.....go to my original post in this thread and tell me who you think the market is for these pedals based off of the artwork. Since what I am saying seems to be so hard for many posting in this thread (unless they are simply trolling, and if so, doing a horrible job of it) to grasp what I am saying I will make it simple for everybody.

Do you think the market for Airis Effects is
1) Metal Crowd
2) Country Crowd
3) Gospel Crowd
4) Blooze Crowd

 

[LLL]

So.....go to my original post in this thread and tell me who you think the market is for these pedals based off of the artwork. Since what I am saying seems to be so hard for many posting in this thread (unless they are simply trolling, and if so, doing a horrible job of it) to grasp what I am saying I will make it simple for everybody.

Do you think the market for Airis Effects is
1) Metal Crowd
2) Country Crowd
3) Gospel Crowd
4) Blooze Crowd

Oh, Airis Effects is definitely for the:

1) Play guitar 1 hour week / post on gear forums the rest of the time Crowd

 

[Bogner]

Oh, Airis Effects is definitely for the:

1) Play guitar 1 hour week / post on gear forums the rest of the time Crowd

Maybe that is why people here aren't getting what I am saying? They aren't playing guitar an hour a week. :laugh2: :wall: :lmao::dunno: :banana:

 

[beaubrummels]

So.....go to my original post in this thread and tell me who you think the market is for these pedals based off of the artwork. Since what I am saying seems to be so hard for many posting in this thread (unless they are simply trolling, and if so, doing a horrible job of it) to grasp what I am saying I will make it simple for everybody.

Do you think the market for Airis Effects is
1) Metal Crowd
2) Country Crowd
3) Gospel Crowd
4) Blooze Crowd

You asked, "Are pedal Graphics Today kind of like how album covers were back in the day before we had song samples, etc?" I guess if you consider that sometimes album art fit the music and quite often it didn't (like The Cars example above); same applies to pedals. About half of the Airis look metal (the others look like WTF), but a fair amount of the pedals on the market don't necessarily hint at a type of music.

 

[LLL]

I guess if you consider that sometimes album art fit the music and quite often it didn't (like The Cars example above);

Huh?

There's an actual car on the front of that album (Candy-O). Their music was "new-wave" "power pop" -ish and generally geared (no pun intended) towards the cruising scene and all it entails.

There's at least 4 songs on that album that refer to cars, driving, similar...

"Let's Go":

She's driving away with the dim lights on
And she's making a play, she can't go wrong
She never waits too long

She's winding them down on her clock machine
And she won't give up 'cause she's seventeen
She's a frozen fire, she's my one desire

I don't want to hold her down
Don't want to break her crown
When she says, "Let's go
I like the nightlife baby"
She says, "I like the nightlife baby"
She says, "Let's go"

"Night Spots"

"Double Life"

"Shoo Be Doo"

 

[beaubrummels]

Huh?

There's an actual car on the front of that album (Candy-O). Their music was "new-wave" "power pop" -ish and generally geared (no pun intended) towards the cruising scene and all it entails.

There's at least 4 songs on that album that refer to cars, driving, similar...

"Let's Go":



"Night Spots"

"Double Life"

"Shoo Be Doo"

The cover art is a 40's-60's cheesecake illustration by Alberto Vargas. The outline of a 60's muscle car added in, while tying to the name of the band, doesn't do anything to hint at the sound of the music, does it?

I never cruised to new wave power pop. I would have never made that connection. I was listening to Ozzy, Journey, Rainbow, Sammy Hagar/Montrose, Ratt, Kansas, Styx, etc., maybe going as far as Santana when going outside the box while cruising in the car.