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Some of you may be interested in this. ;-) By the way, some of you don't seem to realize that the echoplex developers are right here on the list. You don't need to wait until NAMM to ask us questions. Just ask same as you always have. I answer when I have time. (not much lately...) Also, to dispel some of the rampant confusion going on yesterday (for what, the 9th time? we seem to be in an echoplex rumor loop... :-), the echoplex being produced by Trace is not a "new" echoplex. It is just the continued production of the Echoplex. All they did was move the production to a new facility, where it will enjoy much better quality and attention. Think of the last 9 months as a "leave of absence", and now it is back! Also, Aurisis is working on the next major software version for the Echoplex, which will run on the same hardware. This has nothing to do with the production schedules at Trace/Gibson, and is unrelated to developments there, good or bad. We're not done, so you won't see it at NAMM. (as Claude should know, of anybody....;-) cheers, kim >Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:21:40 -0500 >From: "Trace Elliot Ltd" <info@trace-elliot.com> >To: <keepnews@node.net>, <relations@gibson.com>, > <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> >Cc: <relations@gibson.com> >Subject: Re: Whither Echoplex? > >Dear James, >Echoplex update:- >I've just finished testing/building/packing the first 5 production >Echoplexes, (Echopli?), and they have just left on a truck for the >airport. >These are destined for the NAMM show in LA. The upshot is that we are in >full swing as far as production goes and they will be in the shops just as >fast as we can build them. >Please pass this on to anyone else who may have interest in the long >running >saga, >Cheers, >Andy. > >Trace Elliot Contact Information >************************************* >Trace Elliot (UK) Ltd >Blackwater Trading Estate >The Causeway >Maldon >Essex >United Kingdom >CM9 4GG > >Tel: +44 (0)1621 851851 >Fax: +44 (0)1621 851932 >----- Original Message ----- >From: Trace Elliot Ltd <info@trace-elliot.com> >To: <keepnews@node.net>; <relations@gibson.com>; ><Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> >Cc: <prod@trace-elliot.com>; <relations@gibson.com> >Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 3:12 PM >Subject: Re: Whither Echoplex? > > >> Dear James, >> >> sorry you didn't get a reply to the last e-mail. >> >> I have the first completed Echoplex on my desk which was shown and >approved >> by Gibson in the US just before Christmas. I only have one slight delay >in >> getting it into production, that being the programming of the PALs. This >> will be resolved on Tues of next week when a specialised chip >programming >> machine arrives, it will then be full steam ahead and they should be >> shipping within a few weeks. I won't bore you with the details of the >> problems I have had converting this unit from US to UK production but a >lot >> of it has to do with similar problems experienced by NASA with the Mars >> probe! It has not been quite as costly for us to carry out the >conversion >> and I can see no more problems, (fingers crossed!) >> All the best, >> Andy Ewen >> R&D Manager. >> >> Trace Elliot Contact Information >> ************************************* >> Trace Elliot (UK) Ltd >> Blackwater Trading Estate >> The Causeway >> Maldon >> Essex >> United Kingdom >> CM9 4GG >> >> Tel: +44 (0)1621 851851 >> Fax: +44 (0)1621 851932 >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: James Keepnews <keepnews@node.net> >> To: <relations@gibson.com>; <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> >> Cc: <prod@trace-elliot.com>; <relations@gibson.com>; ><prod@trace-elliot.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:13 PM >> Subject: Whither Echoplex? >> >> >> > Greetings. >> > >> > In and among my new year's resolutions for this Y2G is to absolutely, >> > mercilessly and without surcease pester Gibson brands with questions >> > regarding the long-promised, increasingly deferred and ultimately >> > unavilable (former) Oberheim Echoplex. In my last post to the Gibson >> > on-line forum, it was suggested that Gibson's Trace Elliot division >> > would be releasing this premier looping device sometime at the >beginning >> > of this year; I now understand that this release has been (once more!) >> > pushed back to the spring. >> > >> > It's a shame that this product -- a profitable one for Gibson, from my >> > understanding -- continually experiences production setbacks and >delays >> > on its new release. A cynic might believe that it might never see the >> > light of a commercial day again. I am not that cynic, but I am cynical >> > enough to believe that nothing at all will occur on Gibson's end >without >> > a regular reminder of interest in this product. Accordingly, I am >> > forwarding this note to Gibson Corporate, Trace Elliot product >> > development (from whom I am still awaiting a reply from my last >e-mail) >> > and the Looper's Delight mailing list. Sunlight is the best >> > disinfectant, of practices as much as product development. >> > >> > I invite you to look forward to my next note to you all, and a regular >> > stream of similarly inquisitive notes, until either the Echoplex is >> > brought back into production or a statement is issued to the effect >that >> > the unit will never be issued again. Au revoir! >> > >> > Very truly yours, >> > James Keepnews >> > >> > >> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ |