[patfla]

I stopped reading at the first sentence:

"It’s a well-established fact that a guitarist’s acumen can be accurately gauged by the size of their pedal board- the more stompboxes, the better the player."

As both a software engineer and a guitarist, I'd say the opposite is true. Or at least truer. You can't do math-rock without a lot of pedals but the hard part is to acquire the chops. A lot of pedals, and production effects generally, quickly become cliches and it's like dropping down a musical black hole. Someone like Hendrix could take a new effect (superset of pedals) and make it work musically brilliantly but most pedal users buy the pedal to get someone else's sound.

[awsanswers]

I believe that was sarcasm

[ushakov]

don’t take it too literally, i’m pretty sure this was meant as a sarcastic joke by the author :D

[patfla]

Maybe I should have read past the first sentence. The joke's on me.

[u_gene]

..but most pedal users buy the pedal to.. show off in-front of others who don't have that pedal. period.

GarageBand has 1000 of pedals, people don't need more pedals, they need to practice more, but they don't understand that. That's why they are buying more pedals while keep dragging about how much they care about green/clean planet.

[pier25]

If it wasn't obvious this was a joke, the following paragraph starts with:

"Jokes aside..."