This was such a cool trip! Thank you for joining us on this tour of the EarthQuaker Devices' facilities! If you enjoyed this behind-the-scenes look, don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe👍
@@scirasco1 I believe there are around 50 employees at Earthquaker. See my interview with Jamie Stillman, the founder/president of the company, he talks more about it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JStaHi5vs-4.html Thanks! Mitch
Terrible after sales support maybe because there cheap and with all the chinese copies out even way cheaper they cannot address issues 2/10 shop around
This is interesting and fun to watch. Love these behind the scenes building gear videos. Can EarthQuaker Devices design us a looper with a metronome feature? Nothing fancy just a knob to adjust tempo. My ditto looper is my band. My band hates me because I can’t play in time with the rhythm guitar. If I had a drummer ‘Metronome’ in my band people might stop throwing beer bottles at me and yelling things like, ‘Do the world a favor and go wash your mouth out with buckshot’. Just sayin.
I’ve admired EQD from a distance for a while, and I think it’s time I got one... Love seeing this sort of pedal Renaissance - crazy variety, sounds for everyone, and mainly handmade. Great video.
I just got an EarthQuaker devices Dispatch master. And they are now my favorite pedal. I will be checking out more of their products and purchasing from Sweetwater.
Old fasion electronic manufacturing.. really only for small scale production. It look like the ESD procedures and equipment need some attention even most components are analog there are still some that will be prone to damage by sparks etc. And the mounting stations can be upgraded quite allot and still suit the low volume run's. But great tour! and great pedals (have a few).
I have to make a complaint here. The most important worker there, at 16:19, was not introduced to us. This is very offensive with him. Without him there would be no EQD, we all know.
I guess with inflation it really is about $400 for their bigger more detailed pedals. I've always thought the price was fair though. Keep in mind that Jamie spends years tweaking and designing circuits. This video also doesn't show the time and skill it takes for some of the more detailed soldering. In the video he mentions the boards with "surface mount" components. These tend to be a huge pain in the ass, and these are found on their more expensive pedals, like the Avalanche Run. They also get high quality components which can cost up to (if not more) $50USD (probably around $80 for you?). The fact that they have pedals starting at $135 (in Canada) is actually pretty fair.
There's also the cost of buying and maintaining all of these machines. There's the cost of the building, the cost of labor, the cost of having a graphic designer from Marvel...