Just Saying -- the soapbox thread

[gordo]

Wow, nice to see the old thread revived.  Sad to go back and see a lot of names that have dropped out of pedal sites.

[lars]

Sad to go back and see a lot of names that have dropped out of pedal sites.

And sad to see the sites that have also dropped out of existence. Sometimes you can find them on the way back machine, but they're usually just shells of thier former glory. I think around 2010-2016 were the glory years for guitar pedal sites. And Andy Martin was with ProGuitar shop back then too. PedalArea was a good one:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150220015131/http://www.pedalarea.com/

[jimilee]

I didn't even know that existed. Very nice.


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[jessenator]

WBM is great for finding old docs, too. Unless the vendor had everything gated behind a login back then. Happened with an old guitarpcb(?) board I've still got: that old rev of the board was never publicly crawlable. Thankfully I emailed them and they had it sitting on an old Syquest drive somewhere. (I kid, but it was old af, it seems.)

Personally, with AI bot crawling ignoring robots.txt, I fully support folks like Bean, Effects Layouts, Aion, and Robert obfuscating things like that behind s smoke login. It's not like Brian is selling us out to Skynet or anything. FSB arn DIYSB are there now for some threads/forum categories.

[lars]

I didn't even know that existed. Very nice.

Unfortunately, the soundclips and a lot of the gut shot pictures were never archived from PedalArea. I remember that was one of the best sites for figuring out if a Flanger had a unique BBD in it, rather than the typical MN3x07. Surprisingly there were quite a few that used oddballs like MN3204's and MN3009's. I still keep on the lookout for some of those, but they seem to have disappeared from any sites like Reverb or Ebay (probably because they actually sound good).