Re: dependence on equipment

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

Title: Re: dependence on equipment

> I was about
> to write to LD about my great satisfaction with my edp that has never
> had problems with anything like overheating.
> I wanted to
> do this later, after having made  my night solo
> session.
> I have
> switched on my rack and, when I switched on my Edp, my arms falled
> down: every light, led, and display segment is blinking without any
> sense, like a christmas tree.
> I go back
> to my first Edp experience, when the same happened before sending it
> to Oberheim/Gibson for fixing.
> I have
> received it back two months ago, since then everything was working
> correctly and I was starting to feel free from that sense of
> unsafeness in using it.
> Now... I
> switched on and off for 5 times, waiting some minutes between each
> time. Always the same show.
> I did reset
> it: nothing changes.
> Do I have
> to stop thinking to use any looper in my music buildings
> ?!
> What hell
> do these machines have inside of them ?
>  
> Luca

thats sad. I understand you are angry...

Any machine can fail. The problem is that we sometimes depend totally on one without having a replacement close.

If you amp fails at the show, you quickly find another solution.

So far there are not enough Echoplexes arround to be able to borrow one from the neighbour.

Some musicians travel with a replacement unit of some essencial equipment.

I know it would be great just to rely. The rest of us is lucky that it never failed on us... sorry.

I hope Shane Radtke <shane.radtke@gibson.com> manages to fix it this time. Maybe it was some kind of bad contact that stopped to fail when it was with him last time...

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