I got mine so I’m good.

[supersoldier71]

JHS Pedals responds to DigiTech Bad Monkey price hikes: “Learn to listen with your ears and not trends, and you will be a much happier guitarist”

Brand founder Josh Scott posted a statement after Bad Monkey price tags soared to $650 seemingly in response to his latest demo video, which compared the discontinued DigiTech to the Klon Centaur

www.guitarworld.com

The price hike makes sense: increased demand plus limited supply.

I guess I don’t understand why anyone would get their drawers knotted over it.

 

[doctor_capleson]

I guess if nobody heeded the advice here, Offsetguitars, Ilovefuzz, or Reddit that the Bad Monkey was a great sounding OD, then it's too late.

AFAIK, it's a TS style but with bass & treble. I'm not sure exactly how the circuit is laid out, but there have got to be other pedals that have done something similar. When Josh set it to mimic his Klon, the Nobels OD1-R came to mind as a current production unit that can do that sound well.

 

[vice-mayor]

cant believe

 

[Hawkmoon269]

I’m still angry at Josh about the KMD Overdrive. You hear me @jhspedals.com ? It was my first pedal and I was about ready to be reunited with one, and now they are unobtainium.

 

[eddyrox]

LOL!!!

 

[AParrotLooksAt4O]

Dangit. I wish there were other options on the market with tonal overlap for low gain drive. What will I do?

 

[Agreed]

Supply and demand is undefeated but I cackle at the rise in demand

Suckers gonna find out adding $150 to the price tag does not change a bad monkey into anything else


Or maybe it does, the myth is born, all it took was a prophet to point the way - all hail the Bad Monkey, finest overdrive money can buy, step right up! ... I kid. Hey I liked the Triumph real well when I demo'd it in-store, that's Wampler's Bad Monkey, screaming deal by way of comparison at just $99

 

[Indigo Wizard]

I hope JHS doesn't make a video of the Boss HM-2W because I really want to get one of those.

 

[diego.fresh]

Are there any SEC regulations prohibiting us from using insider information to profit from these events?

 

[Agreed]

I hope JHS doesn't make a video of the Boss HM-2W because I really want to get one of those.

Something tells me Boss could manage to keep up with demand a lot better for their currently-in-mass-production pedal, vs. a budget overdrive from a two decade old & long discontinued series.

For collectors and would-be scalpers, Bad Monkey was just one of an illustrious family of cheap ass pedals, oh yeah. Arguably a lesser unit among them! Let me tell ya that the Screaming Blues was cooler, BD-2ish. Hot Head was alright also and I liked its cab sim better. Get them before the rush~

 

[SickNick9]

JHS Pedals responds to DigiTech Bad Monkey price hikes: “Learn to listen with your ears and not trends, and you will be a much happier guitarist”

Brand founder Josh Scott posted a statement after Bad Monkey price tags soared to $650 seemingly in response to his latest demo video, which compared the discontinued DigiTech to the Klon Centaur

www.guitarworld.com

The price hike makes sense: increased demand plus limited supply.

I guess I don’t understand why anyone would get their drawers knotted over it.

That's funny, and a testament to how many more people there are with more dollars than sense.

Maxon OD820 Pro Overdrives are available on Reverb for ~$200 all day, and I can say mine has more pleasing sonic breadth than the Digitech Bad Monkey.

I don't have the YouTuber energy, budget nor street cred, however, I stand by this statement.

Josh is a class-act. No-nonsense; his statement on being a 'happier guitarist by appreciating what you already have' is sage advice.

 

[MajorDude]

I have a Bad Monkey...and a Digitech CM-2, which is supposedly a "better" Bad Monkey...

 

[dreamingaxe]

Id take the Digitech CM-2 Tube Overdrive over the Bad Monkey.. IF I were in the market.. but I'm good.

 

[67 goat]

JHS Pedals responds to DigiTech Bad Monkey price hikes: “Learn to listen with your ears and not trends, and you will be a much happier guitarist”

Brand founder Josh Scott posted a statement after Bad Monkey price tags soared to $650 seemingly in response to his latest demo video, which compared the discontinued DigiTech to the Klon Centaur

www.guitarworld.com

The price hike makes sense: increased demand plus limited supply.

I guess I don’t understand why anyone would get their drawers knotted over it.

Except it wasn't really a supply and demand issue. Just like every other time he makes a video, prices shoot up immediately as soon as people see the thumbnail for the video. No demand has been generated at that point. They are just anticipating demand.

Further, the pedal was already a steady seller. Yes, in the last three days there have been more sold than normal, but looking at the total sold there were more available before the show than were sold over the last three days (and there are still plenty for sale). So demand did not outpace the supply.

This was not supply and demand. This was impulse buying with the sellers knowing it was coming so they raised their price. I'm not saying that is good or bad. I'm just saying it wasn't supply and demand.

Also, apparently none of the people that priced super high sold at that price. One sold for $295, one for $250, a few in the $200 range, and most about $150 (which is still double - or more - than the going rate before the video).

We'll see in a couple weeks how many people bought it thinking they could flip it without realizing that the swift price increase was just a temporary thing.

 

[Aceman893]

First of all, I have a Bad Monkey. And half a dozen other green overdrives.

But, let's get outside the box here, really dig deep into the shadows, with a little light reflecting off our tinfoil hats. Besides, these days, conspiracies are only theories that we will find out to be true later!

- It is actually a plot to DEVALUE the Klon. Monkey = Klon, Klon market falls out. Josh buys Klons up and then reveals he accidentally over-compressed the recording. While Monkey $ goes up, we all miss Klon coming down.

- Digitech, in collusion with Josh, are clearing the market of old Monkeys, and identifying what the new Digitech rekindled Monkey Price of the limited edition should be. All of the FOMO from Old Monkeys, can be had for a mere fraction of the $300 vintage Monkey prices.

- New Chinese Monkey Clones (identical) are about to be let into the market. Easy enough since the old Monkey was Chinese. Josh, being manipulated via his relationship with a Chinese agent, and an attractive one at that, is forced to do this or have it revealed that he actually plays a Jackson Flying V's through a Marshall 900 wearing fishnets after his show ends.

- The Fed, in an effort to fend off inflation, has threatened Josh with an IRS audit if he does not help increase the price of used pedals, to slow spending. Wampler is next...

- How does the King of Tone play into this? Why no Strymon comparison? Why was the TS10 included, but not a TS5, or 7? Can a Bad Monkey sound like a Rat? Who was really in the Gorilla suit?

 

[Jack DeVille]

Many people enjoy the security of a leader.

 

[Phisherman]

May be one of my favorite names for a pedal. "Bad Monkey" just makes me laugh.

 

[alex mansman]

People are realizing their stupid expensive pedal purchases were nothing more than that - stupid and expensive. It sucks but it's true.

 

[Big Monk]

People just figured out the Bad Monkey was good? And it’s YATS plus a tonestack?

 

[Tony Done]

I'm feeling a bit smug, because my very inexperienced/inexpert instincts proved right. I'm primarily an acoustic player, and I bought the BM primarily because it sounded OK and it was cheap. When I used it with my gear, I thought it was the best sounding of the few ODs I have tried, and it is the one that sits in my short pedal chain. I still have the original box and paperwork, all like new, except that the pedal is covered in a thick layer of dust. maybe I should put it in a glass case.