Totally Frustrated With My EDP !!!!!

["Douglas Lawrence" <douglas-lawrence@home.com>]

<Warning -- rant below!>
I have had my "new" EDP since March of this year and it has not worked 
right
since the day I got it. The original problem was sporadic locking of the 
EDP
or jumping into Record mode when I hit Overdub or Undo. Originally I 
thought
it was just my lack of experience using the EDP or just being clumsy with
the footpedal, so I gave it a couple of weeks. The I noticed the unit would
not "boot" properly with a blank screen or just hang after running a loop
for a while.

I suspected the new 16 Mb of RAM I had installed, maybe a bad SIMM, so I
returned the one brand I purchased and got another set of chips from 
another
manufacturer. Still had the same problem after installing the replacement
chips and with the original chips shipped with the EDP.

So now I take it to an "authorized" service center in NYC ("Triple S"). 
They
had the EDP for three or four weeks and were unable to fix it. The unit was
then shipped by Triple S to Oberheim, where they repaired Triple S's 
changes
and also made some other modifications, like adding the new voltage
regulator and some other mod's. BTW, Mike Ayers was quite helpful in
organizing this effort.

When I get the EDP back after a couple of weeks, I now notice that when I
hit Undo, the EDP kicks into Record mode and I still get the weird "boot"
blank screen problem. This is after the unit was completely checked out by
Oberheim!

Now I find out that Gibson is in the midst or a major reorganization and
laying off people. It looks like Tobias and Steinberger will not exist for
awhile (possibly forever) and Oberheim is temporarily shutdown. I spoke 
with
Mike Ayers today and they won't be able to accept the unit for an
unspecified amount of time for repairs.

I am totally frustrated and I would sell this damn EDP in a second if I
could. (Anybody make a bid??) It has been a totally useless, unreliable
piece of equipment to me. I watch in amazement at all the posts in this
group from people who are somehow using EDP's successfully. Does the "Lemon
Law" apply here?

Are there any "authorized" service centers that someone on the list has had
a good experience with or that seem to have a good tech that can work on an
EDP?

I think I would rather ship it somewhere and not have to look at it with 
the
hope of it getting fixed rather than see it sitting in my living room,
jesting at me of all that it promises it can do. The footpedal now acts as 
a
memorial in my closet.

Thanks for putting up with my rant ...

Doug.