ThorpyFX Crowdsources Ideas for Its First Community-Designed Pedal
January 5, 2021 · 1 sources
ThorpyFX announced Project Phalanx, a campaign to create what it called its first-ever community-designed pedal. The British maker, known for fuzz and overdrive pedals such as the Heavy Water, said the project was aimed to go from "concept to reality" in eight to 10 months1.
Rather than branching into unfamiliar territory, ThorpyFX said it was sticking to its areas of expertise: fuzzes and overdrives. Decisions such as the artwork, name and features of the stomper were left to voters, with polls and updates shared on the company's Facebook page and as Instagram Stories1.
"Many have suggested a dual-drive architecture involving drives, fuzzes, classic preamps or a combination of the three."
Early community suggestions leaned toward a dual-drive design combining drives, fuzzes, classic preamps or a mix of the three1. ThorpyFX's Adrian Thorpe also outlined the demo stage of the process:
"we will be sitting down in a loud room with Chris Buck and demoing them, commenting on their sounds nuances etc."
Contributors to the project were automatically entered to win one of the first five pedals produced from it1.
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- ThorpyFX wants you to help build its first community-designed pedal, Guitar.com, 2021-01-04