Can a pedal be worth over $1000.00???

[photoweborama]

I don't think this is a valid price...
What do you guys think?

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/msg/2888627646.html

[ruger9]

No. And I don't care how (supposedly) "good" it is. That's ridiculous. No pedal is worth what an amp costs. Except to those who believe in pixie dust.

[Teleworshipkid]

A product/service is worth whatever a consumer will pay for it.

So, in this specific case, the answer is "no", as nobody has paid that price for that specific unit yet.

As a whole, however, the answer is "yes", as much much more than that has been paid for other individual pedals!

[studio1087]

Old TS-808's sell on eBay in the $700's all the time.

$1,100 for the pedal in the top post is nutty.

I saw on the news that someone sold a Chicken McNugget that resembled George Washington for $6,000 this week. For real.

The $1,100 pedal is the color of a Chicken McNugget.

Hmmmmmmmmmm?

[jonsongz]

only if the scuff marks show the nativity scene in complete detail.

[BillNeaves]

The Internet post I saw said the nugget went for $8100

[Rusrant]

Nugget indeed went for $8100. Klon is a slightly modded tubescreamer! If someone thinks it's worth that much and pays it, I guess it is worth it. As they say, a sucker born every minute!

[Lowbassnotes]

Look at EBay listings for those things if you want a chuckle. I could believe that much for some ultra-rare Colorsound pedal or something like that, not that I'd ever pay that much for a pedal.

[Drunkinminer]

TGP'ers are drooling over this.

[soulgeezer]

Supply, in this case. appears to exceed demand. Therefore, the seller can ask whatever he wants. Whether he gets it or not depends wholly on his finding a moron with more money than sense, who is willing to pay that much for a box full of transistors and resistors that you can buy at Radio Shack for twenty bucks.

[fezz parka]

I've never understood the Klon thing.

[soulgeezer]

Originally Posted by fezz parka

I've never understood the Klon thing.

There are six of them, which (I understand) were built by a jackass with an attitude, who claimed to use magic resistors and then proceeded to cover them in Nutella.

To some people (way too many, actually), Nutella = ka-shay, baby! (Which explains a lot about the FB debacle, as well, in my opinion.)

[fezz parka]

I played though a buddy's KC once and told him a TS9 would be cheaper.

[soulgeezer]

Here's what I've never understood: Your sound is the sum total of all of the components in your signal chain, starting with the guitar and ending with the speaker. Yet, there are some people (most, actually) who seem to think that some box is going to take their Chinese Tele and solid-state Rogue amp and turn them into some kind of magic tone machine, ala Jeff Beck.

Of course, the flip side is the folks with incredibly high-end, expensive guitars and boutique amps, whose sound is already leagues beyond what the average person could ever hope to have or afford (and miles past what their talent or skill demand or justify), who think that "something's missing" without that magic pedal that will inspire envy in their friends and band-mates.

Oh, wait a minute, what did I just write?

Envy. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it boils down to envy beyond a certain point.

I've heard people who sound amazing with Chinese Teles and Rogue amps. I've heard people that sound like crap with '57 Teles and '60 Bassmans. I've heard the very same rig go from great to garbage in two seconds, just by one person handing the guitar off to somebody else.

It's not the box; it's the player. If you've got big enough ears, you can find the sound, regardless of the gear you're using to make it.

[Dr. Pants]

Reality is whatever you can get away with.

Klon is a slightly modded tubescreamer

No, that is completely mistaken. I've built both, and the
circuits are nothing alike. But it's still not worth the absurd price.
I've played "actual" Klon's and the one I've built. They simply
aren't that good.

I'll take a V1 Blues Breaker over a Klon any day.

[Teleworshipkid]

A lot of people are still trying to get rid of their Klons at full price since the new one is (supposed to be) "coming out soon"..

[robt57]

My friend got $600.00 for a ratty Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, it was an original 60s, had a few repairs but when I fixed it for him I told him to keep the original parts to include. And this was in 2009 when no one was parting with cash for the most part...

The picture in the auction of Hendrix using the exact one may have helped. ;)

[scouse2000]

Yes, its worth it, but only if hendrix is still standing on it,,,

[Johmo]

The Wrath of Klon. Offer him $125 and post his response here. :)

[robt57]

Originally Posted by Johmo

The Wrath of Klon. Offer him $125 and post his response here. :)

Damn, that's cold!