David,
I
guess you were the guy I spoke to when Clive handed me the phone today. I have
deliberately not mentioned the new revision of the Echoplex on the list, as it
is due to be launched at the Nashville show next week. However, Clive is
renowned throughout the music biz for having an incredibly large mouth and he
can’t help himself.
So now
the cat’s out of the bag: -
This
new version is identical in operation to the one currently on sale, has the
same technical specifications and should in no way deter an imminent buyer
from getting one of the current ones with the up-grade from
Kim.
This
new model will primarily be shipped to EDP-starved Europe in a few
months.
The
reason for developing it, is to get a CE approved version for sale in the UK
and Europe, (previous versions could only be sold through retail in the US and
Switzerland who don’t really recognise
CE).
This
has cost Gibson about $30 000 and me personally, a lot of long days and over
three years to complete. We had to totally re-lay the PCB, make it 4-layer,
add loads of VHF filtering; a filtered mains inlet and some really groovy
tinned-brass screening cans for the processor and audio codec. Kim and
Matthias have been invaluable during the long process and when we finally got
that CE-certificate, it was definitely all worth it.
We
settled on the name ‘Digital pro Plus’ to distinguish it from all previous
non-CE models.
It
will ship with Loop4
installed.
We
reversed the colours on the front, again to distinguish it, but this is not
finalised, (I really like Matthias’ suggestion of wine-red with cream
graphics). Gibson honcho, Kevin Van Pamel will be listening to opinions at the
show, where there will be two fully spammed-up & working prototypes on
display.
I’m
hoping to get a huge order for these babies out of Gibson, as Clive will
finally be able to flood all his European distributors with them. This is
almost as exiting for the EDP, or is it now EDPP, as the much-revered Loop4
upgrade.
This
is proof of Gibson’s commitment to continue to expand the horizons of the
Echoplex.
Someday,
all people will own an Echoplex;
Someday,
Kim & Matthias may actually make some money for all their hard work
J
Andy,
Echoplex
Slave, I mean Production Manager.
-----Original
Message-----
From: one less
than none [mailto:onelessthannone@hotmail.com]
Sent: 12 July 2002 17:26
To: Loopers Delight
Subject: edp +
just
talking ot a guy a trace elliot
new
model due out, the echopled digital pro PLUS
it's
the same except cosmetics, black with white writing [as opposed to te other
way round]
anyone seen any
pics ????
David
Swain
www.onelessthannone.co.uk
