New Pedal Day - Maestro pedals on sale from $149 to $40 in person only at GC

[Spaced Out Ace]

They wouldn’t be saying they ordered too many (or drastically dropping the price) if they were selling. I dig how they look but I have no idea what I’d do with one.

Put it on a shelf behind you while you demo the newest and greatest piece of gear that will make every musician's life 50 times easier/better?

I saw these in person and they looked like junk. I could be 100% wrong but it was enough to make me keep walking past them.

They are janky looking for sure.

 

[mbenigni]

This thread piqued my interest and then saved me a couple of hours, all inside 2 pages.

 

[maguchi]

So I went back to my local GC today to get the Ranger OD and the Titan Boost. I found a used Les Paul Studio and plugged it into a Marshall in the expensive stuff room. Both those pedals worked great and sounded good, so I snagged 'em.

tried to buy a delay today GC, but both of the ones I tried were broken out of the box

The one I got is a bit funky too, the delay level is really weak.

The first one was completely dead, and the second one dropped the guitar volume by half when engaged.

After reading a couple negative posts here, I was curious about the Discoverer Delay pedal. So I tried out the last one they had and it sounded good. I adjusted the output knob and matched the volume level with the effect off and on and adjusted the mix knob to match the volume level between the original signal and the delay signal with the effect on. Volume levels matched good and the pedal sounded good and felt robust and sturdy.

I ended up not getting the delay pedal though because I had already bought 4 diffrent Maestro pedals in the last 2 days and I already had a good analog Delay.

So far I tested 9 diffrent ones of these Maestro pedals and all 9 of them worked as they should.

GC is blowing them out, but so is Long & McQuade in Canada. That kinda rules out the “Oops, we ordered too many” theory.

I wondered about that too. However yesterday they had one of each of the 9 flavors of pedals in the display case. And today they only had maybe 4 or 5 left. The dude at the counter checked and the only one that he had left in the back that wasn't on display was the chorus. Yesterday, the 1st day of the sale when I bought my fuzzes, they only had one fuzz on display and one fuzz in back. So either they're selling like hotcakes, or they din't have a massive amount to start with.

I'm curious now, so I'm gonna follow these pedals in the next few months and see if they discontinue the line, or come out with a new line, or stop making them altogether.

 

[metropolis_4]

So I went back to my local GC today to get the Ranger OD and the Titan Boost. I found a nice Les Paul Studio and plugged it into a Marshall in the expensive stuff room. Both those pedals worked great and sounded good, so I snagged 'em.





After reading a couple negative posts here, I was curious about the Discoverer Delay pedal. So I tried out the last one they had and it sounded good. I adjusted the output knob and matched the volume level with the effect off and on and adjusted the mix knob to match the volume level between the original signal and the delay signal with the effect on. Volumes levels matched good and the pedal sounded good and felt robust and sturdy.

I ended up not getting the delay pedal though because I had already bought 4 diffrent Maestro pedals in the last 2 days and I already had a good analog Delay.

So far I tested 9 diffrent ones of these Maestro pedals and all 9 of them worked as they should.

I wondered about that too. However yesterday they had one of each of the 9 flavors of pedals in the display case. And today they only had maybe 4 or 5 left. The dude at the counter checked and the only one that he had left in the back that wasn't on display was the chorus. Yesterday, the 1st day of the sale when I bought my fuzzes, they only had one fuzz on display and one fuzz in back. So either they're selling like hotcakes, or they din't have a massive amount to start with.

I'm curious now, so I'm gonna follow these in the next few months and see if they discontinue the line, or come out with a new line, or stop making them altogether.

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What output knob do you mean?

I saw Delay, Mix, and Sustain. I tried everything and the first one had no sound at all coming out and the second one was extremely low signal at all settings. I looked all over that pedal for some other controller I might be missing and didn’t see anything. I even tried reversing the input and output jacks just to see if it was a manufacturing defect. Both brand new in the box