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  • January 6, 2009 at 8:32 pm #77502
    teles4life
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    Do to this bad economy I’m considerring selling all my pedals to buy a black finger. I would be selling my russian black muff, little big muff, boss ce-5 chorus ensemble, ibanez TS9 tubescreamer, digitech screamin blues distortion, and a dunlop crybaby standard wah pedal? If anyone has a black finger and would like to trade let me know. Or just give you give me you opinions on this swap or the black finger.

    January 6, 2009 at 9:25 pm #90207
    Ned Flanders
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    Selling all your pedals just to buy one pedal is stoopid IMO, you should just save for the new pedal and keep your old ones.

    January 6, 2009 at 10:05 pm #90208
    Scott Matthews (EHX Staff)
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    Selling all your pedals just to buy one pedal is stoopid IMO, you should just save for the new pedal and keep your old ones.

    Not necessarily — really, the question is: what would bring you the most overall enjoyment. Do you use those other pedals? (it is certainly, at least, a surprising and dramatic swap! :))

    January 6, 2009 at 10:29 pm #90212
    teles4life
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    I know it sounds stupid but used pedals sell soooo low for some reason :(

    January 6, 2009 at 11:43 pm #90216
    Ned Flanders
    Moderator

    Do you use and like your other pedals? If you do selling is a mistake, if you don’t then maybe sell them but know you will loose lots of money selling so many pedals. I try to never sell any pedals because 1) collect them 2)You loose too much money 3) I love pedals. The only pedals I’ve ever sold/swapped is my micro synth (unusable for me) and my HBE treble booster (also unusable,swapped it for a vintage small stone)

    January 7, 2009 at 12:35 am #90218
    BlueSteel
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    In my opinion don’t do it. Try saving a little money each week and then eventually you would have saved enough money to buy it and you wouldn’t have to sell all your old ones.

    January 7, 2009 at 1:12 am #90220
    MING
    Member

    Save up. I’ve seen them locally for $80 to $135 used. I paid $125, I think thats what I paid anyways. You’ll have the dough in no time.

    January 7, 2009 at 1:39 am #90221
    Fender&EHX4ever
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    The Black Finger is to my pedal board what white paint is to painters – not very exciting, but hard to imagine painting without it.

    January 7, 2009 at 8:22 am #90235
    julian
    Moderator

    I wouldn’t do it

    January 7, 2009 at 10:26 am #90240
    electro-melx
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    Quote:
    Do to this bad economy I’m considerring selling all my pedals to buy a black finger. I would be selling my russian black muff, little big muff, boss ce-5 chorus ensemble, ibanez TS9 tubescreamer, digitech screamin blues distortion, and a dunlop crybaby standard wah pedal? If anyone has a black finger and would like to trade let me know. Or just give you give me you opinions on this swap or the black finger.

    ok going on approx used ebay UK prices (just off the top of my head):

    Black Russian £35
    LBM £30
    CE-5 £25
    TS-9 £45
    Blues £20
    crybably £30

    £185

    used Black finger £90

    …..so no, that sounds like a poor deal to me.

    January 10, 2009 at 7:40 pm #90403
    Costch
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    I’ve never really cared for compression, so I obviously wouldn’t do it, but that’s just me.

    January 10, 2009 at 8:49 pm #90408
    John J
    Member

    The Black Finger isn’t much of a compressor in the traditional sense, it’s more of a tonal augmentation. It smooths your playing out and warms it up without squashing it – even in squash mode. If I was stuck with one pedal for the rest of my life, it would be a toss up between this and a looper.

    That having been said, don’t trade in all of your pedals until you’ve locked them up in a room for a month to see how you can fare without them. The Black Finger is NOT an effect, you are essentially going to be playing with nothing in your chain except for a subtle studio compressor. It’s a big step, what kind of amp are you using?

    January 24, 2009 at 12:11 am #91525
    Costch
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    I’m talking to you, the black finger is not really worth it.

    January 24, 2009 at 1:02 am #91531
    Chumley
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    It depends. My first reaction is DON’T DO IT!, but if you never use your pedals, and you NEED a compressor, go ahead.

    January 24, 2009 at 5:07 am #91544
    Costch
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    It depends. My first reaction is DON’T DO IT!, but if you never use your pedals, and you NEED a compressor, go ahead.

    That makes sense, but I am not a compressor user, so I would not be able to justify such an action. There are cheaper compressors (do you really need a tube driven one? Perhaps a soul preacher or white finger would suffice.) But do whatever YOU think should be done. But if your pedals are never used, and you can’t see yourself having a change of heart, then by all means sell them. Otherwise, I would hold on to them incase of emergency (because no glass breaking will cure a tone hankering, and no amount of pot would make that lame joke funny). I hope my nonsensical ramblings are of some use.

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