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Pedal Roulette #1 : Limited Edition Tube Screamers

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  TS808 Red TS9 Gold TSV808
Original Price ($) $285 (#2) $150 (#1) $450 (#3)
Current Price (μ) $330 (#1) $385 (#2) $1750 (#3)
No. of Controls 3 (#2=) 3 (#2=) 5 + 2 intl. dips (#1)
Numbers Made N/A N/A c2,000
Affordability (now) #1 #2 #3
Ease of Use #1= #1= #3
Obtainability (Rvrb) #3 (8) #2 (11) #1 (25)
Practicality #1= #1= #3
Versatility #2= #2= #1
Quality #2= #2= #1
Uniqueness #2= #2= #1
Value #2 #1 #3
Desirability #3 #2 #1
VERDICT #2 (22) #1 (21) #3 (24)

 

$ - Pricing in $USD

μ - Median value for Current Resale / Second Hand Price

 

So if you want to rank these Quantitively then you simply add up the individual rankings by criteria / category - and the lowest total wins (VERDICT) - i.e. thee TS9 Gold. All of that still involves some Qualitative appraisal - so you can skip the maths if you wish - and simply go by gut feel - or ideally a combination of both approaches! Note that we had to exclude ranking for ’Numbers Made’ as there simply isn’t the data to support that - hence mostly N/A. Finally, you can also rank overall by most number of #1 rankings - which hands it to the TSV808 (6).

 

Not that for different themes and groupings some of the criteria will likely vary - especially pedals which are in current general supply - don’t need the Median (μ) Current Resale Price,

 

For me and my preferences - even though the pricing and a few of the categories are against it - I have the TSV808 as my own personal overall winner in this context and contest even - funnily enough it also has the most availability on Reverb.com - silly pricing currently though - so even though it’s the one I want the most - I’m almost entirely unlikely to get one within current prevailing conditions!

 

Do analyse the above data set yourselves and draw your own conclusions and extrapolations / interpolations - and report them in the comments below. I’m looking to do a series of these 3-way head-to-heads - and the pedals covered of course need to be within a comparable theme - so let me know what further episodes you might like to see of these. I’m thinking I might do Boss Fuzzes next - probably FZ-1W, FZ-2 and TB-2W! Or possibly FZ-1W, FZ-2, FZ-3 if you prefer! Or just the super rare ones - FZ-2, FZ-3 and TB-2W - you decide!

 

It’s funny how poor the Internet still is on some details - all 3 here are obviously limited editions, but I was unable to find official figures for how many were made - beyond a quoted 400 TSV808’s made for USA - not the global total. Also several brands are poor on the details we often need - in order to properly analyse the value and merit of each proposition - so there’s a degree of grey science here - and some of the data may not be entirely 100% accurate. Note also some rounding of figures for sake of aesthetics!

 

In any case - this is just supposed to be harmless fun and spark some lively debate - also leading to really cool visuals of course.

 

All of this is to be taken with a pinch of salt - i.e not taken too seriously - and latterly / eventually it will be more of group-think in determining what gets which overall rank. I do hope you enjoyed this first edition - here follow some salient demos! :

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