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Rising prices of the FRV-1

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Big_Ryan Joined: May 01, 2011 Posts: 578 San Diego	Posted on Oct 27 2017 07:02 PM I'm kind of shocked out expensive the FRV-1 is becoming. — http://dinosaurghost.bandcamp.com/ http://sixtycyclehum.podbean.com Top
JakeDobner Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle	Posted on Oct 27 2017 07:47 PM ... Last edited: Oct 27, 2017 19:48:10 Top
derekirving Joined: Nov 03, 2011 Posts: 660	Posted on Oct 27 2017 08:56 PM It's pretty insane. About 3-6 months ago they were between $80-$100 now I've seen them between $150-$250. I was recently going to buy one, when I offered $100 the cat said "they are ebay for $150 and up" so he passed on my offer. Top
JObeast Joined: Jul 24, 2012 Posts: 2762 Finknabad, Squinkistan	Posted on Oct 27 2017 09:55 PM Don’t overpay for it. There are lots of alternatives at least as good. The web has these blips that mean nothing more than some user is in vogue. Try the EHX Grail or Catalinbread Topanga or any other similar digital emulation of spring reverb. None of them are magic. — Squink Out! Top
Chippertheripper Joined: Mar 11, 2011 Posts: 819 Semass	Posted on Oct 27 2017 10:42 PM Why? They stop making it or something?? Top
Surfadelphia Joined: Sep 04, 2017 Posts: 430	Posted on Oct 27 2017 11:27 PM Hmm...kind of surprising. I snagged one on ebay about a year ago for around $70.00 and it looked almost like it was never used incl all the original packaging, etc. It's not a bad pedal but now that I have a real tube driven outboard tank, it collects dust. Top
ludobag Joined: Jun 05, 2010 Posts: 620 at south of	Posted on Oct 28 2017 03:25 AM made a good bargain i sale mine only 400 ! mine is on sale but at this time no offer maybe in fews month it will be a bargain (same as cij or mij jag or jazz,the value increase don' t really know why but i don't think it will not stay ,lots are easy to scource ,not as bananna yamaha guitar ) Last edited: Oct 28, 2017 03:26:47 Top
SinNombre Joined: Nov 14, 2011 Posts: 79 San Diego	Posted on Oct 28 2017 10:47 AM The CL seller selling a Jensen C12N a while back would take 420, or $35 cash. Either way I missed out on that deal. But GC, Sweetwater and Musician's Friend are no longer selling FRVs. Glad I got one last winter. Love them or hate them, the supply and demand principle still applies. Top
revmike Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3796 North Atlantic	Posted on Oct 28 2017 11:31 AM Canada's big music store, Long & McQuade, aren't carrying them anymore either. If $420 is becoming the average price it is now in the Surfy Bear price range. The Surfy Bear is a much superior option. My other thought is that if one already has a tank that they use, and are using a pedal as a back up for live shows, there are a lot of other options out there. Most spring reverb pedals will probably make no difference to the audience listening (unless the audience is full of surf music players and aficionados). I should pick up something for a worst case live show scenario... Rev — Canadian Surf http://www.urbansurfkings.com/ Top
JakeDobner Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle	Posted on Oct 28 2017 12:44 PM $420 is three times the average asking price used. Putting $420 as the price in the video title was click bait. Sensationalizing a stupid misguided listing. Top
Reverbenator Joined: Jul 26, 2015 Posts: 258 San Diego, Ca	Posted on Oct 28 2017 08:55 PM Well, there are two ways to look at Boss discontinuing the FRV-1: 1) The sales have dropped off to the point that there is no longer a market for the pedal. 2) It could be updated/replaced by the Boss FRV-2. The Christmas/Hanukkah/Festivus shopping season will soon be upon us. If it going be updated/replaced, we'll likely know in a few weeks. — -Cheers, Clark- -Less Paul, more Reverb- Top
RobbieReverb Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 2342 San Jose, Ca.	Posted on Oct 28 2017 09:57 PM I don't know why anybody would $420 for this pedal. You could get a used Fender '63 Reverb Tank Reissue for that, or as previously mentioned, a Surfy Bear. — Bob Top
Surfadelphia Joined: Sep 04, 2017 Posts: 430	Posted on Oct 28 2017 11:13 PM There are a few problems with the FRV-1 that if addressed, it could be the best tank emulation pedal out there. Top
bamboozer Joined: Jan 18, 2010 Posts: 672 Delaware	Posted on Oct 29 2017 06:20 AM Seen this game many times before, they stop making the pedal at which point the sellers price rises, it's based on speculation and nothing more. Top
LeeVanCleef Joined: Oct 05, 2011 Posts: 744 France	Posted on Oct 30 2017 02:14 PM bamboozer wrote: Seen this game many times before, they stop making the pedal at which point the sellers price rises, it's based on speculation and nothing more. Exactly. Have a look at some of the BIN prices for the recently discontinued Boss FB-2 Feedbacker/Booster on eBay... $500-600 And the FB-2 wasn't even a big seller while it was in production, hence the early retirement. — Old punks never die... They just become surf rockers. Top
Ariel Joined: Aug 29, 2009 Posts: 1556 Israel	Posted on Oct 30 2017 03:07 PM Surfadelphia wrote: There are a few problems with the FRV-1 that if addressed, it could be the best tank emulation pedal out there. That's actually, almost true, it does have some good qualities to begin with. The drippiest of them all, I think. Though, I still never heard or played with a digital emulation of a type4 pan that is convincing, in any realm - pedals (tried most of the popular ones), VST's, IR based... And by convincing I do NOT mean in a full mix/band context, where the digitals have proven to do a good enough job. Solo, the faults are felt as well as heard. There's always some latency issue, there's always a lack of randomness, there's never the violent reaction of a real spring and there's always the too-long-tail-not-enough-drip issue. In ALL emulations. No one yet addressed all the above (and more) in software form, really seriously. Lack of processing power, still? Product designers who are not familiar with surf guitar? Programmers not getting deep enough? One thing I know is that in order to reproduce a sound, one has to listen to it first. In context, not in a lab. So let's wait until someone does, and then wait for Roland to decide to invest in the algorithm and implement it a Boss pedal form, including a horrible buffer and tweaked to accommodate Blues players. Time for that icon yet? And I liked the pedal. Last edited: Oct 30, 2017 15:33:30 Top
shake_n_stomp Joined: Jan 09, 2014 Posts: 612 Vancouver BC	Posted on Oct 31 2017 12:33 AM Hey, next thing you will see is an FRV-1 Waza. A toggle between digital zing and a new custom setting. Ha! — Lorne The Surf Shakers: https://www.facebook.com/TheSurfShakers Vancouver BC Canada Top
Rondo1 Joined: Apr 01, 2016 Posts: 89	Posted on Oct 31 2017 07:38 AM I use the FRV in conjunction with the on board reverb in a Deluxe. With the right tweek, it gets a pretty decent sound. I'm just too lazy to pack around an outboard tank. Most of our listening audience wouldn't know the difference anyhow. I am shocked the pedal has gone up in price like that. I sure wouldn't pat that for one. Top
Big_Ryan Joined: May 01, 2011 Posts: 578 San Diego	Posted on Oct 31 2017 12:52 PM JakeDobner wrote: $420 is three times the average asking price used. Putting $420 as the price in the video title was click bait. Sensationalizing a stupid misguided listing. That was the price I found on reverb.com that grabbed my attention, its not like i pulled that number out of thin air. — http://dinosaurghost.bandcamp.com/ http://sixtycyclehum.podbean.com Top
taijiguy Joined: Mar 27, 2006 Posts: 210 Newington, CT USA	Posted on Nov 01 2017 06:38 AM A lot of stuff on reverb.com is way overpriced. A used $149 Alesis SR-16 drum machine for $30,000 just because it was used by Billy Corgan (whoever that is), beat up Mellotron M400's for the price of a brand new one, completely trashed Univox Super Fuzzes for $800 when you can get a clone with the exact same circuitry for $200. Is anyone ever crazy enough to pay these ridiculous prices? Top

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