movallMP104 FALLING STAR
$32.00 USD ...AliExpress & free ship Yes Movall are all about clones. The good news is when they miss hitting the bullseye you usually get a great pedal for a great price so you don't care. Their Plexi pedal does not sound like a Plexi. It does however do a very good impression of a JMP800 so I bought one with no regrets.This is their take on a Electo-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man. I do not know which one, for a start E-H offer 4 different ones, lol.CONCLUSION __This pedal is defiantly in the ballpark with an E-H. Unfortunately everyone who demos the E-H product is convinced 99% of the demo needs to show you what you can do with it for your next big contract to do a Star Wars movie when 99% of us may want to hear how it sounds playing a few, or even any of the
ordinary tunes we learnt to play the f.-ing guitar
for in the first place.
The E-H is $215.00 USD. (nearly 7 times more)
HANDS ON .
...it was a no-brainer buy.
After hours of pizzing around I recalled the E-H was meant to be a EchoPlex in a box for all the obvious reasons. So I tuned it to match my Dunlop EchoPlex. Bingo!!! I all but perfectly nailed it. The Movall is a keeper!!!!!
... demo at 30:00
the fine print
If you feel a little weepy about deserting old Made in America E-H ....then consider this.
The entire board is totally finished with all its parts and the cases are finished too, in China.
They are sent to NYC USA where the ladies screw them into their enclosures, pop on the knobs,
test that they work and put them in a cardboard box that says ...
Made In the U.S.A. __It is all legal and above board, but .... WTF !!!! 😡
boz#300cad
I don't mind deserting "Made in America" EH since they posted an anti-worker, anti-union rant recently.
ReplyDeleteAmerica were never stronger than in the 50's because the Unions were strong. All companies had to be fair to their employee's even if their wasn't a Union. The top people got very well off but not like now where they have as much as 10 times more than they can spend in a life time.
ReplyDeletemosky magnetic delay? plus some noise maybe.
ReplyDeleteI’m pretty sure this is most likely a pt2399 analog voiced delay like the mag echo delay. Which is supposedly a Keeley magnetic echo. It’s sounds ok. Pretty dark but the modulation is good and there’s a trimpot inside to boost the input gain. The demonfx one was very dark compared to a deluxe memory man. A memory boy is analog as well but sounds nothing like DMM. It’s a marketing ploy from EHX if you ask me.
ReplyDeletePost a gut shot… that’ll tell us.
ReplyDeleteI thought the Gut Shot was an germanium Fuzz made by Gary Hurst for his grandmother. But before he got it finished she died. It is very rare as none were made. It could come up for auction though. A small thing like none made never stopped some builders. :-)
ReplyDeleteThere are very few companies in China making pedals. Those that do re-brand all the others. What they nearly never do is actually make a new board that does nothing but have the knobs and switches pop thru in a different place. Especially if it is going into the same Hammond style casing. I am dead certain that a finished pedal cost no more than $15.00 USD to build box and ship. During covid there were sales for $12.50 with free shipping.
ReplyDeleteMy point is the MOSKY can be bought with Demon FX on the box which is a typical case in point. Another thing is Movall are a rare company that did make there own pedals although they too at one time rebrand for others. Movall mini pedals are all 8 years old designs but these B boxes are new.
I learnt a lot in 2014 when these companies were so small if you wrote them an E-mail you would get a long personal letter back telling you things that these days are 'industrial secrets'. I also made a friend with the assistant to a guy that was the distributor for all pedals in the Asian market. They literally sold thousands of pedals before anyone got a pedal with all English graphics on via Ali Express. The guy even sent me pics of factories making pedals. Even then companies like Mooer brought in the guys that did the robot computer build thing for Mercedes China that put in near hands free machinery that could make a whole pedal in at most a minute. It is why Mooer make the same mini pedals with at last count are sold with 30 different brand names. Depending on the brand you can pay 3 times more. At the moment the cheapest are branded Sonicake. At one time the cheapest were Donner but they have gotten greedy, LOL. The Chinese slave labor thing is a myth. It costs a fortune in waste as one wrong connection in a pedal and it is cheaper to scrap. The other thing is parts have to be totally reliable. You can not buy cheap parts and have 4 non stop hours of production of pedals all needing to be scraped.
The funniest example of this is the animal pedals Vibe being the exact same pedal as the Moen Jimi Nova.
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