SNEAK PEEK: Seymour Duncan's Dirty Deed Distortion Pedal

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dr. ad said:
personally i'd like to see SD push their basslines range a bit harder.
or take the zephyr approach, and build pedals out of space-shuttle parts and price them accordingly.
pedals are for pus-, er, pushbikes.
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YES! On both accounts!

Especially basslines, 2mos ago I installed a Steve Harris for my bassist and his mid was BLOWN. He couldn't believe pickups could make such a difference. So I recommended he stick with the SD strategy and get a hot j-bass pup to go with it....whatcha know, he bought it yesterday because he now "gets it". He did say he wishes there were a few more options and better descriptions/clips though.
 
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Maybe the guy who invented fire should have reworded his post in just a few short words as to not have cause such a commotion between you all, gotten all of your panties in a wad, and just asked "is the pedal DONE DIRT CHEAP?". :)
 
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JOLLY said:
Maybe the guy who invented fire should have reworded his post in just a few short words as to not have cause such a commotion between you all, gotten all of your panties in a wad, and just asked "is the pedal DONE DIRT CHEAP?". :)
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Now see, that's funny!
 
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If I were Duncan - since it seems EVERYONE who ever had anything to do with them is entitled an opinion....No matter what the effect:

1. I'd have an input switch for buffering the input depending on the output of the pickup - H/M/L to preserve the sound of the pedal regardless of the noisebomb in the guitar

2. I'd make sure they were all true bypass to really preserve the sound of the signal when not in chain

3. I'd add a switch like on the pup booster and a dial. This would allow the guitar in question to get single/HB sounds out of the pedal regardless of the pup. I'd allow the dial to add more/less of that (because the pups vary)

4. I'd make the EQ active instead of passive. True boost/cut.

5. Super Silent. All time based effects would have an optional gate.

My target would be preserving your already great tone, while adding to it. The pedals for people who have great tone and want to preserve it.
 
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I'd like mine with a bag of chips, but I'd settle for a donut.. ;)
 
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I'll say it again.

Needs more distortion.
 
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from the sound of the vid I would love to check one out.
 
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JOLLY said:
Maybe the guy who invented fire should have reworded his post in just a few short words as to not have cause such a commotion between you all, gotten all of your panties in a wad, and just asked "is the pedal DONE DIRT CHEAP?". :)
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Post #13 brah.

Post #13.
 
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It sounds pretty good. I'd totally give it a shot.
 
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\Now that pedal is something that sparks my interest. Bravo! Certianly well presented, with some excellent playing and sounds as good or better than anything I've heard on a clip from any other pedal, and has a wide range of usabilty. I want one! ( I had to add that it sounds really tube like, transparent, and responsive).
 
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. . . will there be more pedals coming in this line/series ?

Just curious.
 
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Aceman said:
If I were Duncan - since it seems EVERYONE who ever had anything to do with them is entitled an opinion....No matter what the effect:

1. I'd have an input switch for buffering the input depending on the output of the pickup - H/M/L to preserve the sound of the pedal regardless of the noisebomb in the guitar

2. I'd make sure they were all true bypass to really preserve the sound of the signal when not in chain

3. I'd add a switch like on the pup booster and a dial. This would allow the guitar in question to get single/HB sounds out of the pedal regardless of the pup. I'd allow the dial to add more/less of that (because the pups vary)

4. I'd make the EQ active instead of passive. True boost/cut.

5. Super Silent. All time based effects would have an optional gate.

My target would be preserving your already great tone, while adding to it. The pedals for people who have great tone and want to preserve it.
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Thanks Ace, forwarded to the product team.
 
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Scott Olson said:
Thanks Ace, forwarded to the product team.
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Thank you Scott.

Here is a great example: When I plug my PG loaded guitars into my Catalinbread - awesome. But the Distortion in my #1 just punches the bass into a big farty mess. If I could keep the tone/feel of that Distortion, but not abuse whatever is in my Supercharged Overdrive so much, (like with an input impedance switch on the pedal) that would be awesome! Kind of like making "active" stomp boxes, or putting Blackout tone technology into pedals. It's noty the pickup - it's the framework around it - or in this case, the effect.

My take on this is that anyone can make a Dirt Box, or a chorus, or whatever. So it has to either have Better sound - which these days to me means boutique market, or it means more features. Or it means the same features/sound - but something else: TONE. And Tone is, at the end of the day, Seymour's Core Competency (at least in the lofty sense). So anything that SD does should rreally be driving TONE - not just a "sound"

Of course - there is the whole Music Model: You make Guitars, Amps, Effects, Pickups, Sound Reinforcement, Accessories etc...To truly be a player you either need to own your thing, or you need to do them all well. By extension, Going from pickups, you are either moving to amps or pedal or guitars. Small electronics is still right in Seymour's zone, or not too far out of it. I don't know if you guys did a force field analysis to decide which area to move towards or not, but hard to not find that as the one.

By the way - did I mention I'm available to facilitate strategic business planning sessions to work on this stuff? Helping people run their business better really is my core competency....
 
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Here is another one for free:

You know the second that this thing hits the real world, there will be a YouTube vid comparing it to every pedal in (and out) of its class. I'd say doing that would be a development tool and use a DOE methodology to get blind listener feedback. Make the video's yourself as part of the development process as a method to rate the competition during development, and then steer the project as appropriate during the development phase of whatever the Guitar Pedal Development Life Cycle is.... (Stealing shamelessly there from SDLC approach)
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
I don't know who you guys think you are fooling with the "Assembled in Santa Barbra" deal but it smells like using cheap parts on cheap boards that are built overseas then the loaded boards stuffed into boxes in Cali...
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Pretty sure I have the pedal that's 'assembled" from. It's manufactured by what's largely an OEM company and their pedals are amazing (ie not cheaply built at all). They do their own R&D, & while every new pedal out there is at least "based on" another pedal, these are'nt straight copies at all. Not to mention, they sound as good as any $400+ pedal out there. I don't really see that as fooling anyone with cheap stuff. The whole 'assembled in the US' line is only nessessary because you have people around who think that actually counts for something.
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
No offence but did you guys not learn your lesson the first time with this pedal mess??

The older SD pedals were just a terrible attempt at pedal building not to mention you jumped in to a world that is already as saturated as a market can get.

I don't know who you guys think you are fooling with the "Assembled in Santa Barbra" deal but it smells like using cheap parts on cheap boards that are built overseas then the loaded boards stuffed into boxes in Cali...

If you guys would spend the time, energy and not to mention money on things you're good at you might not have to worry about getting more market share of other items like pedals...

I thought the SD pedal line was going to go the way of the SD Amps of the 80's but I guess you guys are hard to learn a lesson.
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I just ordered a used Twin Tube Mayhem. \m/
 
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