At least your designs are genuinely innovative. I agree that that it’s great to support small honest businesses where possible. My personal take is that if a layout/project is out there I will build it out of interest for personal use but I won’t build to order for others and wouldn’t want to take money from the designer in any way. Thanks for your excellent response Adrian. I was genuinely interested on his take on it knowing that he’s been on both sides of the fence. where you can please support businesses that try and innovate. So how do I feel about it? I’ll just say this. it meant I could leave a strong career and become self sufficient. I support my family with the effort I put into ThorpyFx, it’s not just a business. I’ve seen it happen to Hudson too with his broadcast pedal. What i really object to is people using our brand and pedal name to sell these fully built clones, I’ve seen examples of this on Facebook. And that worries me more than anything else. There are LOADS of examples of this in this industry.
Negative because those designs cost me a lot of time and money to get right and once cloned others can profit from my work without the associated R&D burden.īut that doesn’t tell the whole story, if someone really wanted to rip me off they could easily buy a pedal reverse engineer it and sell it as something else. Positive because, hey they are deemed good enough to be reproduced. Now the issue with seeing our designs reproduced on the site in this manner is both a positive and a negative. I tried where possible to respect a companies intellectual property and when called out, I changed nomenclature to ensure I didn’t fall foul of owned trademarks etc.
So before I went “pro” I learnt my craft building some clones, tweaking them and doing what I could to make them as good as possible. but it’s a tricky subject and the resolution is mostly reasonable. I really like and i've had good chats with him in person and I appreciate his excellent business and how well he is doing in a crowded market, but I was wondering, Adrian how do you feel about these projects becoming available? I was recently looking for some new pedal PCB projects to build as I haven't done any building since getting my Helix 3 years ago, and I was surprised to come across 2 projects that are listed as being 'comparable to' ThorpyFX's Peacekeeper and Fallout cloud pedals. I'm genuinely interested in how you feel about it after putting in all the hard work and development of these circuits, but also given that you started out, as many builders do, by building clones yourself. If so, how do you defend that position given that you started out by building and selling lots of clones of other pedals, (a couple of which I bought from you myself before you were very kind in giving me some advice on how I could get into building myself). I really like Adrian and i've had good chats with him in person and I appreciate his excellent business and how well he is doing in a crowded market, but I was wondering, Adrian how do you feel about these projects becoming available?ĭo you feel like it's theft of your intellectual property? I won't link to the site here or by PM so don't ask. I was recently looking for some new pedal PCB projects to build as I haven't done any building since getting my Helix 3 years ago, and I was surprised to come across 2 projects that are based upon some circuits that are well loved around these parts.
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