For sure, I absolutely agree with you, even coming from the opposite perspective - the cost of durable goods is amazingly cheap compared to food or energy. That you can buy anything like a guitar or pedal, at current prices, and keep them the rest of your life speaks to an incredible amount of value built into the supply chain. The RE-2 would cost 1 month of groceries in my house, and it would last, conservatively, 15 years, probably more like 30. That's incredible.SamXTherapy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:37 amIf you look at anything in terms of raw materials, nothing is worth the cost of what you pay. A guitar - even a high end model - is just a few bits of wood and metal, with the odd bit of plastic, cars are just metal boxes with a few rubber rings and so on... but none of us really gripe about the cost of those. I real terms, the work that's gone into the RE-2 and its big brother are reflected in the cost, plus the desirability factor and, no doubt, a decent profit margin for all concerned, plus, of course, the cost of the parts.
So maybe I should have said, the cost of pedals seems to have grown to be out of proportion to the rest of goods in the music industry. Maybe I just long for the days when a new Boss pedal could be an impulse payday buy - they were never so much as to give me pause. But at 20% of a mortgage payment, or equal to my car payment, I just don't feel that way anymore
However, on the basis of my first paragraph, maybe I can convince myself to get one - it's clearly great value compared to groceries
They really do seem like great pedals, its the kind of stuff we want from Boss. I bet they will end up being classics.
