Quote from: BricksnBeatles on May 29, 2022, 10:32:40 PMQuote from: matmosphere on May 29, 2022, 08:33:38 PM
Interesting, I remember being surprised when this one came out because most of the others in the series were straightforward clones. Seemed like a departure for EHX. Think it came out with the Soul Food and the East River (a tube-screamer), and there were 3-4 others as well if I recall. I'd be surprised if it wasn't heavily based on something else honestly.
I personally don't think so. The Soul Food (Klon), East River (tubescreamer), Glove (OCD), Satisfaction (Jordan bosstone) etc. were all released around 2013-2014. The Ripped speaker fuzz came out in 2021, around the same time as the Mainframe (bit crusher), Eddy (Chorus), Nano Pulsar and Nano DMM, and Inteligent Harmony Machine (harmonizer)— those all seem to be original designs (or nano versions of their older original circuits) with in the nano XO series of pedals, which leads me to believe the Ripped Speaker is original as well. The last XO nano sized pedal that was a blatant clone was the Flatiron fuzz (Rat) in 2018, and even that was sandwiched between mostly original effects like the Mod11, Nano Battalion, Ocean's 11, and nano operation overlord. I think EHX has mostly moved away from clone designs in the past 5-6 years, and re-focused on new designs.
Totally stand corrected. For some reason I thought this one came out at the same time.