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Re: BIEKE
By: AJ Date: October 2, 2017, 6:35 pm
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Great story Bucky!
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Re: BIEKE
By: Bucky Date: October 6, 2017, 9:37 am
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Bieke, what’s your take on Devi Ever?
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Re: BIEKE
By: bieke Date: October 7, 2017, 11:51 am
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well i bought a couple of pedals back before all the drama
when she was still Tim Shortnacy
I ordered both at the same time, got the first one pretty fast,
the second one came months later
but now, after 11 years, both pedals are still working fine
build quality is a bit shoddy, but that was the early days
I told Tim back then that he was more an artist then a
pedalbuilder
there also were drawings hidden inside the pedals, nice touch
the Truly Beautiful Disaster was the most notable Effector13
pedal, a fuzz crazier than the Zvex Fuzz Factory
he was just starting out the Effector13 brand, making pedals
together with his GF
who then was hired by ZVex and became ZVex's GF
this trigerred the first of many flamewars between both of them
Amada, the long term saleswoman at Zvex then teamed up with Devi
(and Jason Myrold, the painter at ZVex) and started OohLaLa
shortlived pedal brand, damaged ZVex to some extent, but he came
out stronger
OohLaLa went out of business after a year or so
the Effector13 brand was well established aby then and Devi had
a relationship with a transgender who built the pedals
the circuits were all basically the same, just with some small
changes here and there, mostly fuzz pedals
releasing a new pedal every 3 to 4 weeks
some stayed like the Torns Peaker, the SodaMeiser, ...
she started the hormone thereapy and this also changed her
personality imo, not in a good way
she broke up with her partner and the Effector13 brand kind of
went downhill after that
Devi was one of the founders of the Ilovefuzz forums and found a
new partner (Infanem)
who made some new circuits and took the Effector13 brand a step
up the ladder
lots of internet drama, Devi herself becoming more and more a
manic
a flamewar with Billy Corgan
she was a stalker victim
and went underground and became Fuzzgirl
she started several crowdfunding projects, but nothing really
worked
she wanted to get out of the pedal business and into making 8bit
computer games
she then came with the idea for a new pedal, the Console, she
did a Kickstarter project
raised 40K, blew half on engineering (Infamem did most of that)
and blew the other hald on cat food and meds
and the project failed, she vowed to pay back everybody but
still has a lot of debt to this day
the Console debacle and her gaming venture made her sell off the
DeviEverFX brand to Dwarfcraft
she went underground again and changed her persona, she took 2
or 3 different names and struggled with her life
Dwarfcraft kind of let the Devi pedals go under
Devi recently got her brand back (after some more drama) and is
now making pedals again
she seems to be more stable lately, since she is living in a
little transgender community
she is making fuzz pedals again and vowed again to payback her
debts and make things good again
this is usually followed by some more drama
I like DeviEver, think of her more as an artist and not a FX
guru
definitly one of the most colorful people in the pedalbiz
now who is that other famous transgender pedalbuilder?
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Re: BIEKE
By: AJ Date: October 7, 2017, 12:13 pm
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Wow....You are a veritable encyclopedia of musical
knowledge/backtory Bieke.
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Re: BIEKE
By: Bucky Date: October 7, 2017, 1:32 pm
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I knew about most of the story starting with Corgan and her
downward spiral. I remember watching her demos when she was
still a guy, and I greatly lusted after the Bit fuzz and
Shoegazer. Pretty much got my fuzz fix with my Earthquaker Hoof
Reaper and forgot about her for a while. I followed her on
Souncloud when she posted those long rambling podcasts, and
never took interest in her retro games.
I read the comeback thread on ilovefuzz where the admin banned
her. What sort of sparked my interest was how she accosted Notch
on Twitter (under one of her other names). Then I read all of
her troll posts and was wondering how a chick who made niche
pedals in her basement is now a weird SJW-type online persona.
Granted, I have done my share of trolling, and I give people
benefit of the doubt when it comes to their online persona
versus their IRL personality. I can’t tell you how many people I
knew IRL came off as assholes on Facebook.
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Re: BIEKE
By: Bucky Date: October 10, 2017, 1:26 pm
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Any chance we could see your other guitar builds, Bieke? I just
looked through your old Tele thread.
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Re: BIEKE
By: bieke Date: October 14, 2017, 7:11 am
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[quote author=Bucky link=topic=105.msg1226#msg1226
date=1507659966]
Any chance we could see your other guitar builds, Bieke? I just
looked through your old Tele thread.
[/quote]
well, all I ever did was slap together some Teles
did not bother to take pics of the process
order parts and assemble
very simple stuff
first one took me a couple of hours
but I think I could do it it in less than 30 minutes now
I think I have some pics of my finished Tele builds
because I sold these
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Re: BIEKE
By: Bucky Date: October 14, 2017, 8:14 am
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I’m impressed! I have a shitty soldering iron I bought for
twenty bucks that eats batteries. That and my lack of ability
setting a guitar up keeps me from doing much with guitars. Well,
that and lack of funds. But I have a black Affinity Tele body
from the first Tele I owned, and I always wanted to sand it down
and put a Joe Strummer style Tele together.
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Re: BIEKE
By: AJ Date: October 14, 2017, 2:32 pm
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Bieke....What I'd really enjoy, some day when you have the time
on your hands...Is a step by step recounting of your creative
process. With as much detail as you'd care to share.
The genesis of a tune..Do you primarily start out with a new
one on guitar? Or do they just appear no matter what instrument
you've got your hands on.
Do you lay down drum loops first?
Really I'd like everybody's take on their process....
This might be a sticky in the making here.
My creative process the last two weekends has been limited to
painting, ripping up flooring, all at my Tyrannical Wife's
insistence and direction...Lol
Taking a break to go see the new Blade Runner movie with the lad
here in a couple of hours though...Then off to Outback for
supper...
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