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Probably. Also - trying to be helpful, dimensions on the site would be good, so you know how much room it's going to take up on your pedal board.

To be fair, it looks like we have a hell of a lot to time to learn before the gig right now.

I called it when they announced it. It's all vapourware until you get it in your hands. We've seen this time and time again. Yet everybody gets emotionally obsessed with things then can't deal with the delays.

Ive just looked at the bass butler logos as I have never seen that pedal. I wouldn't associate the sine graphic with clean. My thoughts go straight to synths, modulation, tremolo... Again, the square wave puts me into thinking synths. Or clipping... certainly not just drive. The mid, I didn't actually get that at all. Does that make me dumb? I saw it more as a pan or something? But that wouldn't make a great deal of sense on a mono pedal. Obviously I got treble and bass... but not sure what the arrows were meant to be adding? Not overly happy with the variable resistor being gain either. Im not sure the vast majority of people would get that as gain. You'd probably be happier if you were a user of an Orange amp as it's all mirrored on their amps. So given the above, I'd also apply those thoughts to Orange as a whole. Im guessing their familiarity is down to learning through having an Orange or having read the manual - but I certainly don't think they are great choices. Similar confusions are had with the Machinist pedal. But maybe that's just me. For interest - https://orangeamps.com/articles/the-orange-graphics-explained/

Anyway, where's the official demos - and is anybody reviewing them yet?

My skin is thicker in that. But seriously, you may want to read your responses from a number of viewpoints before clicking submit reply.

I won't be buying it. Cos I'm not a musician.

It's OK, I picked up your veiled insult. Again, refer to customer 101. You should know that a great deal of people using fx pedals, amps or anything, the more you give them to twiddle, the greater the chance that they don't know what they are doing. If people at least know the term as opposed to having to learn the meanings of potentially new hieroglyphics, things may be easier?

Just some further feedback - again, just my opinion. Im intrigued by the inclusion of knob choices. Standardise them. If people want to customise them, let them do it at their cost. Build a brand on uniformity - not so your product looks like it's been built from random parts bins. Im taking this is an off the shelf product that you want to just shift in boxes? Why add the complication?

All it took was one ill thought out post...

This thread is about to turn into a case study of customer service -101.

Even I congratulated the product being bought to market. The rest, constructive criticism. I am big into accessibility for all - and not having labels is a big negative on that front. And the LED comment, just personal preference - but it just looks unfinished and rough... to me. But also appreciate that adding collars takes down your profit margin.

You mean, listen to the voice of the people who could be interested in buying your product. As above, wow. Thing is, you may have done a smart move here, get a reputable custom fx company to design your pedal, get it into a position where it can be manufactured in bulk, put your branding on it... and just shift boxes. Thats the beginnings of a good business model. Coming onto a platform an alienating your customers, not so much.

Theres a bit of a shortage.

They say that pictures paint a thousand words. However, in this case, I feel a few labels may have been a little more appropriate. Would have liked to see some collars on the LEDs too. But hey, fair play on getting something to market. Difficult task.

Softboxes are too big as you say. These LED panels are the size of a page of A4.

You want diffused lights anyway (if you are looking for smooth shadows) like the 3rd clip.

Static cameras. I have a few tricks in post to give it a more organic look. As for roving cameras - tricked you... what you see in the audience didn’t necessarily happen at that precise moment in time. That’s the beauty of having additional clips available to you in the edit. Transitions are intentionally hard... as you would see on the TV. It’s very rare to see cheesy transitions in a professional production, with the exception of a cross fade. No hard 6 second rule. This is where your artistic eye has to come into play. Change as appropriate to fit the action and music. Audio - whatever you can get. Desk. Ambient. Onboard camera. Time align in DAW and process to the best of your ability.

If your thread is 1/4” you are good to go. Otherwise you’ll need a 3/8” to 1/4” adapter. Ive got an assortment of k&m mounts... which are always useful for clamping onto things

Myself and my mate have been doing live performance vids for some time - here’s a few from us - heres one I did with one of my bands - this one seems to get lots of love - @Happy Jack - this was in the darkest corner of a city centre bar. Two LED lights providing some help!

Mere flesh wound, right?

Trust your scopes - and work to that skin tone line!

Oops. I have to say, that colour correction is the single most difficult thing to get right... and it all stems from getting it right at source. The only reason I mention it, is to help you in the long run. The earlier start, the quicker you can start learning from your mistakes. Im battling with colour grading at the moment and a lot of that comes from getting your colour correction right... and I'm still not great at it. I can get it down in perfect conditions... but lets face it, videos shot like this tend to never be in perfect conditions. If you want my absolute critique... I have to say I hate the opening titles. Sometimes static titles is where it's at. I always ask myself this... "Would I see this on the TV"? If the answer is no, you are probably putting yourself in the Microsoft Movie Maker camp. A lot of the transitions and special fx that are in the core offerings of applications are there because they have to be there because of what competitor products have included. Doesn't mean you have, or should use them. Digital zoom is generally poor unless you are pixel binning from say 4k to a delivery format of 1080. Try to avoid at all costs - I tend to allow for 10% crop if I'm going into lossy crops but I would always choose to crop from 4 or 6k footage down to 1080. I would wager your best future purchases would be lights by the way.. the more light you can get to your sensor the better... and and as you get your head around it all, you'll realise that the last thing you want is an 8 bit camera!

Bravo. In reference to your statement in the first post - remember that this game is all about practice. And done is preferable to things never making a final render. Thats a decent effort there - obviously the constraints of the source footage are coming into play as you zoom and crop - but you know what, so what? Next advice would be looking at a bit of colour correction to get your skin tone a bit more realistic... But you know what, that's already a hell of a lot better than most bands will ever put out... So well done!

Absolutely, SEISS and Furlough payment scheme can be added to the list.