$280.00 USD ONE CONTROL
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Dyna Red DIST v.4
Designed by Bjorn Juhl over 20 years ago. He licensed it to 3
companies over that time. Bearfoot under 2 owners in 2 different
cities then to One Control in Japan. It is quite simply his take on
a MIAB. The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble and Presence.
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CONCLUSION __This is v.4. The guy simple has a good ear.How close it is to the amp be damned. Thepedal has been around forever becauseit simply sounds killer!!!
Could you explain ‘Bearfoot under two owners in 2 différent cities ‘?
ReplyDeleteTwo different and unrelated American builders made this pedal under the Bearfoot brand name doing the same pedals. The second showed up 2 years after the first but the first kept making the pedals for another year then it vanished. Then a year later the 2nd company disappeared. Neither of these makers used the same shade of paint Both did the artwork by hand with a brush but you could tell it was a different person who painted them. Then for another couple of years one bought the pedals from Bjorn himself but he had 3 or 4 people randomly making them. At that point there was no brand name. These were made in Sweden and only sold in Europe. Then all and any production stopped until One Knob came along another couple of years later.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago I bought a Bearfoot Honey Bee X to Don Rusk. Killer pedal !
DeleteDon Rusk ran Bearfoot in its initial incarnation for a few years as a collaboration between himself and pedal designer Bjorn Juhl, the idea being to bring BJF designs into the USA marketplace/beat the bootleggers and counterfeiters at their own game.
ReplyDeleteThe collaboration dissolved at a certain point, but Don Rusk continued with Bearfoot, slightly adapting the designs and changing the names of the pedals.
More recently (post-Covid?) Don contracted with Jon Cusack's business to manufacture the Don versions, and a year or two ago sold Bearfoot to Cusack completely.
In the last little while Cusack have worked again with Bjorn Juhl and introduced the Bearfoot 'Bjorn in the USA' series.
So... two owners, then only one of those, then that one collabs with a third guy who is now the owner and works with the other first guy who wasn't the one who sold it to him. If you get my drift. ;)
If you look up 'Bearfoot FX Appreciation' on The Gear Page forum Don (Donner) Rusk explained some of the story in January this year.
Thanks! Very interesting!
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