Re: Hello and RE: DOD FX-98

[Tom Spaulding <tspauldi@gibson.com>]

The FX-98 may very well be in catalogs now and not available until January.
The lead times necessary to produce a catalog the size of Musician's Friend
or AMS is long. Any manufacturer who wishes to be included must have
materials to the catalog company well in advance. If DOD expectes to launch
the FX-98 at the Winter NAMM in January (I'm guessing about that), it makes
perfect sense to appear in catalogs that are hitting the street now in
order to take advantage of the Christmas buying fervor and to create
advance interest (which they are certainly doing). Has anyone actually
taken posession of this pedal yet? 

Tom "It Won't Be Long Now" Spaulding @ Oberheim


At 09:41 AM 11/18/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> From: Ken Fletcher <fletk@efn.org>
>
>> 2) I was in a local music store (I live in Eugene) today and asked one 
>of
>> the clerks about the DOD FX-98.  He let me play with a DFX-94 while he
>> called his rep, and he found out that a) the rep was surprised anybody
>had
>> heard of the 98 because it was still supposed to be a secret (right!),
>and
>> b) the unit has not started production yet--it won't be on the market
>> until January.  When the music store guy pressed, the rep confirmed that
>> it has an 8-second sampler/delay and that its SRP will be $119.95.  He
>> didn't know about a reverse-sample feature.  I pass this on for whatever
>> it's worth.... 
>
>What?  This I don't understand.  How many of us have seen the FX-98 in
>Musician's Friend...or was it American Music Supply?  Five?  Ten?  I never
>thought I'd be on the "inside loop" just because I get a mail order
>catalog!!  Why is this bothering me?  I don't know.....
>
>Matt
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