Barber Nuance Pedals: the first Barber pedals ever produced?

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Barber Nuance Pedals: the first Barber pedals ever produced?

Postby cubba » Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:51 am

Barber Nuance Pedals: the first Barber pedals ever produced?

Bought these at a guitar show some 7-8 years ago, brand new in the box.
I've been using more or less the same pedal board for years, so these guys have been sitting on the shelf.

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Plugged them in today and they sounded fantastic! Real sleepers.
There's seemingly very little info available on them on the web.
Anybody have some knowledge of what seems to be the first commercially produced Dave Barber pedals?
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Re: Barber Nuance Pedals: the first Barber pedals ever produced?

Postby David Barber » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:28 pm

cubba wrote:Barber Nuance Pedals: the first Barber pedals ever produced?

Bought these at a guitar show some 7-8 years ago, brand new in the box.
I've been using more or less the same pedal board for years, so these guys have been sitting on the shelf.

Image

Plugged them in today and they sounded fantastic! Real sleepers.
There's seemingly very little info available on them on the web.
Anybody have some knowledge of what seems to be the first commercially produced Dave Barber pedals?


The first Barber pedals were Barber pedals. Established 1997.

Nuance was a side project in 2001, the events of 9-11-2001 pretty much killed the interest for 6 months or more so unfortunately we scrapped the idea due to lack of interest at launch.

The Foot Grenade was very much like a Tone Pump and the Razorback was close to the Edge Hog. They sold for $129.95 . 12 years later and I still can only get $129.95 for a three knob pedal! :D

It's like gigging all over again, anybody want to play a pick-up gig at Barney's pub for $75 a man on Saturday? :D
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Re: Barber Nuance Pedals: the first Barber pedals ever produced?

Postby cubba » Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:45 am

That's a great story Dave and thanks for telling it.
Well, maybe not so great since it does involve the concurrence of events with Nuance pedals and 9/11,
but a story nonetheless that answers the question I posed and sets it straight.
I see these pedals having a slight Menatone influence in terms of the look, in the same way that he uses a graphic to suggest the title.

I hear you regarding the prices of things.
When I took a business class in college, we all had to "sell" barbecue grills and compete with one another based on pricing (and other factors).
How many fancy, high-priced grills would one sell vs. how many practical (and cheaper priced) grills?
Once all the data was entered into his software program, the lower priced grills won out.
So maybe by going the practical route is why you've manged to stay around this long.
Certainly, these pedals and the others I've tried from you don't sound cheap,
and their affordability keeps the avg. bar-band musicians who can only get that $75 a man (we get $100 a man!) in business too.
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Re: Barber Nuance Pedals: the first Barber pedals ever produced?

Postby David Barber » Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:22 am

cubba wrote:That's a great story Dave and thanks for telling it.
Well, maybe not so great since it does involve the concurrence of events with Nuance pedals and 9/11,
but a story nonetheless that answers the question I posed and sets it straight.
I see these pedals having a slight Menatone influence in terms of the look, in the same way that he uses a graphic to suggest the title.

I hear you regarding the prices of things.
When I took a business class in college, we all had to "sell" barbecue grills and compete with one another based on pricing (and other factors).
How many fancy, high-priced grills would one sell vs. how many practical (and cheaper priced) grills?
Once all the data was entered into his software program, the lower priced grills won out.
So maybe by going the practical route is why you've manged to stay around this long.
Certainly, these pedals and the others I've tried from you don't sound cheap,
and their affordability keeps the avg. bar-band musicians who can only get that $75 a man (we get $100 a man!) in business too.


That's the magic answer, buy your customers one at a time! :D

The graphics for Nuance were drawn by my friend and biz-partner in Nuance, Charles Roe. I just asked him to draw whatever came to mind when he heard the names. Charles is a great acoustic guitarist/mando but does not the kind of guy who stays up late looking at boutique electric gear,I doubt that he knows who Menatone is. His main impetus for building pedals with me was to get the heck out of Walmart management and do something more music oriented. It worked, even though Nuance was put to bed early, Charles never went back to "working for the man" again. Chalk up any similarities to the million monkeys theory. ;)
PRS SE One, PRS SE EG, PRS McCarty rosewood neck, Anderson Hollow T, Anderson Hollow Classic, Hamer Artist, Fender Strats and Teles, All Barber Pedals, Barber Echelon, Barber Energy cab.
http://www.barberelectronics.com/sounds.html
http://www.barberelectronics.com/pickuptest.htm
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