Re: Whither Echoplex?

[Allan Hoeltje <ahoeltje@best.com>]

Being as this is America, the land where everyone can sue anyone for any
reason and generally expect to win, how about we all get a lawyer and file 
a
suite against Gibbon for _not_ selling a product?  Just an idea.  Maybe I
_am_ becoming a cynic and not just being cynical.  Had this product been
available I would surely have bought two of them by now.

Sorry, I am at work, my Piece 'o Chit Windoze machine is giving me a hard
time, my cat is sick and I am grumpy.  James, keep up the good fight!

My local Guitar Center has the Line 6 DL4 on "sale" for $385.  Didn't
someone here have a link for a place that was selling them for around $220?

Allan



James Keepnews wrote:

> 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