Sage Benado of Benado Effects.

Welcome Sage.

I would like to know why someone is doing new fxs pedales in a market that is oversaturated.
You must have good reasons to do it?

Becuase I love those toys I would like to hear more about your philosophy in building them.

Are there any plans to do a rack mounted studio fxs???
I ask becasue I find myself way more often in the studio with the guitar instead of on a stage.
And I love to toy around with effects when mixing/tracking time is.



Thank you mrholmes.... You are absulotly right, the market is over saturated and flooded with fxs these days, and I think it got so bad were at one point they all started to sound just about the same. If you look closely at my website you will notice that I am not providing stand alone pedals (other than the Adverb reverb, that was highly requested by my clients). Everything that I do is part of the all in one pedalboard.  Now, you might come and say, "but still Sage you are building fxs that just goes into your board". This is were I am different from the rest at what I do. Although I am building fxs that end up in all in one pedalboard, I spend time and more time making sure that all of my pedals will work together perfectly, and I mean perfectly. How many times you've seen baords that are flooded with effects but only a group of them works well together but not with the rest. Well, when you build a single unit, you will make sure that this spesific unit of yours will sound the best to your opinion but there is no way in the world that you can design it to work perfectly with every single pedal out there. 
My philosophy is, make sure it's simple but the best. what ever comes between your guitar and amp should never be in your way, it should only add nice color but not change it. And the most important thing for me, which is my basic philosophy, your product represents you and you represents your product. So me as the owner of the company, I better be as good to my clients as my products are. to me they are one...


Hope that answre the question and sorry it's that long.....

Here is some market research, from one guys perspective...

I like the idea of all in one, from a gigging stand point.. I often have that point in the gig, when the GODDAMN pedal board goes silent, and you are frantically trying to find out which goddam patch lead has lost contact.. then you get home, clean everything etc and then 15 gigs later same thing happens...

also, power supply noise... and pedal noise... contributing when you have them connected.

So , I love the idea from a reliability and low noise point of view.

My problem is I am in Australia, and the buy in with shipping would be really quite high... so its kinda out of the question....

To try it is going to be the only way I would know if it would be enough...

also, I think the addition of a muted tuner in it would be very cool.

cheers

Wiz


Wiz,   Regarding the muted tuner in.... The Dry linout I have on board has a dedicated jack and a dedicated stomp for it which actually bypass the all board. So if you conect a tuner to that dry lineout that will be your muted tuner section.  As far as getting one of my units, let's see if we can have a Skype call or FaceTime call and discuss about it. 


Cheers....Sage. 

Thanks sage, yes true one reason why I still love my Alesis midi verbs.
They are simple and stupid and you will find something that fits the bill in 99% of the cases.

Who is selling your pedals in Europe?